Your Desk Quotes
50 quotes by 49 authors
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When you go to work, if your name is on the building, you're rich. If your name is on your desk, you're middle class. And…
— Rich Hall
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We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can! Every great achievement in this world was first carefully thought out.…
— George Matthew Adams
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I've known people who had fantastic ideas, but who couldn't get the idea off the ground because they approached everything weakly. They thought that their…
— Donald Trump
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If you haven't noticed yet, working sucks. Unless you are a racecar driver or an astronaut or Beyonce, working is completely and utterly devoid of…
— Aisha Tyler
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Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.
— Emma Thompson
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You have to put the idea into action. If you don’t have the motivation and the enthusiasm, your great idea will simply sit on top…
— Donald Trump
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While you, the leader, can teach many things, character is not taught easily to adults who arrive at your desk lacking it. Be cautious about…
— John Wooden
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Persist - don't take no for an answer. If you're happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you'll be sitting at…
— David Rubenstein
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Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you will get rusty.
— George Singleton
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When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay…
— Jacques Audiard
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Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it…
— Lady Bird Johnson
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Don't clean your desk. You might find something in the morning that you can't see tonight.
— Bruce Mau
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But you now, you wear your soul on your sleeve, exhausting your energy, propping yourself up on a tree, mumbling, or bent over your desk,…
— Zhuangzi
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Jeff Klein, one of the earliest champions of Conscious Capitalism, offers a highly practical yet profoundly intuitive blueprint for achieving your purpose-and making a difference…
— Patricia Aburdene
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Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.
— Roddy Doyle
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Spreadsheet: a kind of program that lets you sit at your desk and ask all kinds of neat "what if?" questions and generate thousands of…
— Dave Barry
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Before the iPhone, cyberspace was something you went to your desk to visit. Now cyberspace is something you carry in your pocket.
— Paul Saffo
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I could give you absolutely sterling advice on how to avoid writing, how when you run out of things to do other than going to…
— Tony Kushner
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The summer has seized you, as when, last month in Amalfi, I saw lemons as large as your desk-side globe-that miniature map of the world-and…
— Anne Sexton
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David Corbett's The Art of Character offers a deep inquiry into the creation of character for the novice writer, with valuable nuggets of wisdom for…
— Jacqueline Winspear
Who Wrote These Your Desk Quotes
49 authors contributed a total of 50 Your Desk Quotes, led by these top contributors: