Grandfather advised me: Learn a trade I learned to sit at desk and condense No layoff from this condensery.
Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, its true.
Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk and squeeze words out of yourself.
The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.
Louis B. Mayer and I got along like a house afire. He never chased me around his desk or tried anything with me. Of course, he never gave me any good parts, either.
Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.
I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.
I was having the surreal experience of having myself show myself around my office and bullpen. ” “Oh! My desk. I could’ve sat at my desk. I could’ve sat at your desk. ” “No. ” “It’s a vid set. ” “Even then, no.
You'll have days of complete lack of faith in your abilities. But you have to keep coming back. That's when you know you're a writer - when you take the failures and appear at the desk again, over and over again.
This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
The view from space is like having a globe on your desk -- it's a broadening experience.
I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A. M.
The true nature of bureaucracy may be nowhere more obvious to the observer than in a developing country, for only there will it still be made manifest by the full complement of documents, files, veneered desks and cabinets - which convey the strict and inverse relationship between productivity and paperwork.
It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional.
Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.
I plan to die at my desk.
The biggest problem with working at a treadmill desk: the compulsion to announce constantly that you are working at a treadmill desk.
I've never really had a desk job, but I've died one day at a time all over the place.