77 Quotes About Office

Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home. It was better never to have been born-never to have wanted anything, never to have hoped for anything. Donna Tartt

As we look over the list of the early leaders of the republic, Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and others, we discern that they were all men who insisted upon being themselves and who refused to truckle to the people. With each succeeding generation, the growing demand of the people that its elective officials shall not lead but merely register the popular will has steadily undermined the independence of those who derive their power from popular election. The persistent refusal of the Adamses to sacrifice the integrity of their own intellectual and moral standards and values for the sake of winning public office or popular favor is another of the measuring rods by which we may measure the divergence of American life from its starting point. James Truslow Adams

In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer’s yard. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Why would you turn right on a red light when we can all just sit here behind you waiting to die... #AHOLE A.O. Storm

I would never sabotage you, Mya.” He wiped away one of my stray tears with his fingertips. “Of course, deep down I did want you to stay, but I had nothing but nice things to say about you. I even said they’d be foolish not to hire you, but–” “But?” I glared at him. “But what?” “But if they thought the low-ass salaries they were offering were good enough for you, they needed to increase them exponentially or move along to someone else. I thought you deserved more.” “Is that all?” “No, ” he said, looking into my eyes. “I also needed to personally interview each of the CEOs myself. Needed to make sure each one was a good fit for you, and that whoever you worked for next was already married.” I opened my mouth to ask him if he was being serious, but he beat me to it. “Yes, ” he said, smirking. “Yes, I ‘seriously’ did need to do that.” “What does the CEO being married have to do with anything, Michael? What if I have no interest in seeing you after I quit?” “You do, so we’re not even going to entertain that line of conversation.” He rolled his eyes. “If the CEO is already married, I won’t have to worry about ‘this’ happening at your next place of employment, and I can be somewhat less jealous.” “How selfish of you.” I couldn’t believe him, but for some reason I couldn’t help the smile that was forming on my face. . Whitney G.

The first place smelled like work, so I took the second Charles Bukowski

The thirty-plus years of marriage between the ceiling and the cement plaster showed signs of weakness by frequently developing cracks and holes. Pawan Mishra

Shh! It happens. Sh! it happens. Vikrmn

His lips reached mine and enveloped them, soft as velvet and yet unyielding. Robert Thier

His silent, stony face was only inches away now. He was so near, so terribly near — and then he moved to close the last bit of distance. Robert Thier

Avoid living in new homes and working in new offices due to the high levels of chemical out-gassing that they exhibit during their first year. Steven Magee

LED lighting has its place: cold, detached, hollow places like office buildings, factories, fast food chains and public schools - places full of humans but no human emotions. LED lighting really belongs in the apathy of the digital age, where science and technology rules over friendship, love and freedom. Incandescent light bulbs have a warm yellow-orange glow like the glow of a nice fireplace, where friends and family might sit and talk together or where children might open Christmas presents, a glow that can project celluloid films and bring back old memories, a glow that can light the text of a paperback novel. Something that beautiful, with that much power, could never last very long in a time as depressing and uncertain as the 21st century. . Rebecca McNutt

Therefore in one line why don't these (The higher authority of an office) people just say, "You are our sex toy. We will use you as our vibrator until we derive pleasure in earning profits from you. Once we learn that you are of no use and you are not giving the pleasure we need, we will kick you or throw you in a dustbin as we throw a condom in dustbin after sex. Sudeep Nagarkar

Light and the human is poorly understood by the astronomicalprofession, with many astronomers not understanding which light bulbs they should have in their ownhomes and offices! It is embarrassing that astronomers do not understand the many forms of artificiallighting that they are exposed to every day and how it affects them. Steven Magee

To be a manager, one must be able to manage her own relationship with the people around her, as well as the relationships among her subordinates. Just being perfect in paperwork and operations does not make one a good manager. Sophie L. Rose

To be a manager, one must be able to manage her own relationship with the people around her, as well as the relationships among his subordinates. Just being perfect in paperwork and operations does not make one a good manager. Sophie Rose

During rough time in a Business, a Leader should act like a ship captain. His first and foremost priority should be to put his employees to security before thinking of his own welfare. Indy Bissessur

It doesn't matter what your boss thinks as long as he doesn't cry. Gerry Geek

Appraisal — the best resources will get the worst result Vivek Thangaswamy

Never lose time in sending the scapegoat to the slaughterhouse. Ali Sheikh

Therefore let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers' (Rom 13.1). The Christian must not be drawn to the bearers of high office; his calling is to stay below. The higher power are over him, and he must remain under them. The world exercises dominion, the Christian serves, and thus he shares the earthly lot of his Lord, who became a servant. 'For there is no power but of God.' (Mark 10.42-45) These words are addressed to the Christians, not to the powers. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What happened to the good old days when rich white men just bought their way into office? Jennifer Crusie

How is Mrs. Rivers doing?' asked the agent, a very tall and large man, well-dressed, bald and depressing, with a manner of gliding into his office from a side door without perceptibly moving his feet which had struck terror into many young writers and caused them to accept the lowest terms Mr. Hobb could offer. Angela Thirkell

It did occur to him that perhaps he’d gone to the wrong Academy — the guys in the Space Fleet always had more interesting stories to tell at the spaceport bars. You know, tales about the dude who got vaporized in a plasma accident in the engineering section, or the fella who got turned into a blob of weird space jelly by some alien virus — or the time someone flew a starship into an astor-field at warp four by mistake (they were still trying to find the black box on that one). The Imperial Space Fleet’s recruiting office sure didn’t go around advertising ‘Join up, see the universe, meet interesting aliens and die screaming’, but it was known there were risks involved. It was part of the job after all, and yet somehow, they still got recruits signing up in droves. Yes, indeedy — the stories were far more interesting than his — took a load of ore to Gorda, took a load of mining equipment back to Tordrazil. Took a load of Florpavian Flame-birds to a zoo on Deanna, took a load of machinery to Salus. Picked up and dropped off a few passengers on the way. Still, Florpavian Flame-birds were a risky cargo… and damned tricky to transport — which is probably the only reason he’d had any entertainment at all on the last trip. Christina Engela

You can tell if a person is organized by checking his desktop. Ali AlJabari

The garden is an unemployed township-based man's cubicle. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

.. In a ROWE* people don't have schedules. They show up when they want. They don't have to be in the office at certain time, or anytime. They just have to get their work done. How they do it ?When they do it ?Where they do it ?It's totally up to them. Meetings & this kind of environments are Optional.What happens. . ?Almost across the board ! - Productivity goes up- Worker Engagement goes up- Worker Satisfaction goes up- Turnovers goes down- Autonomy. Mastery. Purpose -these are the building blocks of new way of doing things."______________________________________________________________* R O W E: results-only work environment. Daniel H. Pink

Self-employed people work where they live. Entrepreneurs live where they work. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The office’ is a cemetery of dreams. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Although he too was heading to work, Shahid was glad he wasn't dragging himself off to some office job. Shahid's view: anybody who had to wear a suit to work died a little inside, every day. John Lanchester

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it. Thucydides

Ask one question: Would a Millennial (anyone born between 1980 and 2000) look forward to working here? Try this exercise. Take a group of people into a large, open room with tackable wall surfaces or whiteboards. Give them large sheets of paper, sticky notes, markers, and tape. Ask them to create a concept for a work environment (don't say “office”) using the following words: high-energy, collaborative, healthy, productive, engaging, innovative, interactive, high-tech, and regenerating. . Rex Miller Sr.

The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job. Tennessee Williams

My mind was not that of a conqueror, but that of a cow that spends its life chewing contentedly in the meadow of invoices, waiting for the train of eternal grace to pass by. How good it felt to exist without pride of ambition. To live in hibernation. Unknown

If you chose Option 2 [confrontation], you did well. People will be less likely to engage you in office small talk of any kind, but that's likely a benefit when you consider the fact that every ten minutes of office small talk takes one year off of your life. Baratunde R. Thurston

If you don't feel drowsy after lunch and don't yawn in the office, you're not a perfect employee! Himmilicious

Discipline at the office had long been enforced by use of three methods: the meeting of the first kind, the meeting of the second kind, and the meeting of the third kind. Pawan Mishra

I had heard of offices feeling like prisons, but in this case our prison felt, rather anticlimactically, like an office. William Ritter

My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true. Derek Jeter

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office. Shirley Maclaine

The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool. Irvine Welsh

One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure. Sally Ride

I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends. Barton Gellman

I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I'm travelling. Rick Boucher

Christmas coming means one thing for comedians: office party gigs! Katherine Ryan

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas. Johnny Carson

Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing. Enid Nemy

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work. Al Capp

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office. Hubert H. Humphrey

I have not the smarts or patience for political office. Henry Rollins

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there. Maureen Reagan

I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed. Karl Lagerfeld

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. Marcel Duchamp

I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there. George J. Mitchell

What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment. John Marshall

Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office. Allen Weinstein

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other. Thomas Jefferson

When I interviewed Paul Bremer in his office, he had almost no books on his shelves. He had a couple of management books, like 'Leadership' by Rudolph Giuliani. I didn't take it as an encouraging sign. George Packer

I think I can hold every portfolio - defense, finance and Foreign Ministry. I think personally I'd like the foreign office. Avigdor Lieberman

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. Erma Bombeck

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso. Rita Rudner

We shot many films in Delhi that turned out to be successful at the box office. So the attachment is definitely on the positive side. Anushka Sharma

My mother still sends a cake to the office for my birthday. David Ulevitch

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. Herbert Hoover

I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office. Thomas Jefferson

I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so, ' no one says 'you're so moody, ' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in. Denise Mina

I'm not involved in politics, and I've never had any political role. I've never been in office. I've never taken any public administrative jobs. Isabel Dos Santos

And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office. Christy Romano

Everything from who sits on your local board of education to the prosecutors and judicial appointments in your area and much more are all impacted by who holds political office. Al Sharpton

On 'The Office, ' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary. Mindy Kaling

The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person. Charles Babbage

In my home office, I have two large, 30-inch computer monitors - a Mac and a PC. They share the same mouse and keyboard, so I can type or copy and paste between them. I'll typically do Web stuff on the Mac and e-mail and chat stuff on the PC. Matt Mullenweg