"Go to the desk. Stay at the desk.…" — William Matthews
"Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk."
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19 Quotes by William Matthews
William Matthews has 19 quotes on this site.
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The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach…
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A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's…
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The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.
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The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.
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One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when…
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Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.
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Strive for excellence in your calling, but as a subsidiary to this: Do not fail to enrich your whole capital…
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The first law of success is concentration - to bed all the energies to one point, and to go directly…
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It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do…
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We all have two childhoods, the unhappy one and the happy one.
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With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving…
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The fullest instruction, and the fullest enjoyment are never derived from books, till we have ventilated the ideas thus obtained…
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More Desk Quotes
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I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.
— Ray Bradbury
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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk…
— Pearl S. Buck
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A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
— John le Carre
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The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been…
— Fred Allen
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I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one…
— Chris Christie
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We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we…
— Unknown Author
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Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than nineteen years of dealing with him across…
— Grantland Rice
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People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I…
— Robert Bloch
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My dad always had this little sign on his desk: 'The bigger your head is, the easier your shoes are…
— Phil Jackson
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A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I…
— Margaret Mahy
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party…
— Barbara Walters
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