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«I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.»
«If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?»
Author: Dr. Laurence J. Peter
(Educator, Writer)
| Keywords:
clean, cleaned up, cleanest, clean out, clean up, cluttered, desk, desks, make clean, sign, significance
«I still find myself walking away from the water's edge before I have what I need. I turn around and walk back toward the water ...sometimes two or three times, as if I can't decide whether to stay or leave. I will sit down more often and yield to the giver ...and when I return to my desk, I will have what I want to give.»
Author: Jan Denise
(Author, Columnist, Speaker)
| Keywords:
desk, giver, Left Turn, Return to, sit back, sit down, The Giver, three times, turn around, water down
«If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.»
Author: Malcolm S. Forbes
| Keywords:
colleague, colleagues, desk, dozen, initialed, initials, papers, piled, route
«In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.»
Author: Pearl S. Buck
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
desk, desks, fresh, fresher, freshest, his pen, lying in wait, mood, paper, pen, penned, ream, take up, the next, writer, writing desk, writing paper
«If they want we will give them a sleeping bag, but there is something romantic about sleeping under the desk. They want to do it.»
«In five years the cost of computation will really be effectively decreased. We'll be able to put on somebody's desk, for an incredibly low cost, a processor with far more capability than you could ever take advantage of.»
Author: Bill Gates
(Entrepreneur, Founder)
| Keywords:
computation, computations, decreased, desk, effectively, low-cost, processor, take advantage
«If you rap your knuckles against a window jamb or door, if you brush your leg against a bed or desk, if you catch your foot in a curled-up corner of a rug, or strike a toe against a desk or chair, go back and repeat the sequence. You will find yourself surprised how far off course you were to hit that window jamb, that door, that chair. Get back on course and do it again. How can you pilot a spacecraft if you can't find your way around your own apartment?»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
apartment, curled, curled up, desk, far-off, jamb, knuckle, knuckles, spacecraft, The Sequence, toe