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• Don't clean your desk. You might find something in the morning that you can't see tonight.

  Bruce Mau

  Morning, Tonight, Might

  "An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth" by Scott Kirsner, www.fastcompany.com. September 30, 2000.

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• I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Mixtures, Terrible, Organized

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• God's word tells us that righteousness is a gift; it cannot be earned. But godliness is not a gift. We must pay a price to touch godliness through a daily decision to die to self and embrace the cross. God calls us to learn godliness in the classroom of life among people as we sit on airplanes and buses, walk among our neighbors and labor at our factories or desks.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Airplane, Self, People

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• Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk.

  Christopher Smart

  Paper, Sun, Awake

  Horace, Christopher Smart (1819). “The Works of Horace”, p.235

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• At its heart, this book touches on a mystery of economics: what exactly is happening in our world, and why does it often work so well? As the authors show, apparently messy systems - such as untidy desks - actually exhibit a high degree of order: the piles of paper are close to hand, and the most important documents tend to make their way to the top while un-needed ones sink to the bottom. If the mess works, why mess with it?

  Nicholas Blincoe

  Book, Heart, Our World

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• Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes it takes no more than a few sentences, followed by an embarrassed "Never mind, I see what's wrong. Sorry to bother you." This works remarkably well; you can even use non-programmers as listeners. One university computer center kept a teddy bear near the help desk. Students with mysterious bugs were required to explain them to the bear before they could speak to a human counselor.

  Brian Kernighan

  Sorry, Learning, Mind

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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, asleep. Heaven gives you a form and you wear it out by pointless argument.

  Zhuangzi

  Giving, Tree, Heaven

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• If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Criticism, Would Be

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.85, Beacon Press

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• make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I used to follow a practice - somewhat contrived, I admit - to write the man's name on a piece of scrap paper, drop it into the lowest drawer of my desk, and say to myself: "That finishes the incident, and so far as I'm concerned, that fellow." The drawer became over the years a sort of private wastebasket for crumbled-up spite and discarded personalities.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Hate, Writing, Men

  "At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends". Book by Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 52, 1967.

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• Wisdom is probably the ability to cope. That's why someone who has to walk seven miles every day to get water for their children can be wiser than someone sitting behind a desk in Wall Street.

  Stephen Fry

  Children, Wall, Knowledge

  "This much I know". Interview with Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2005.

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• It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry talking, and the statue, the picture, and the musical composition are poetry acting. Milton and Goethe, at their desks, were not more truly poets than Phidias with his chisel, Raphael at his easel, or deaf Beethoven bending over his piano, inventing and producing strains, which he himself could never hope to hear.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Talking, Piano

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• You have to want to write and like to write. Sit down at that desk or machine or laptop and tell stories.

  Linda Fairstein

  Writing, Machines, Stories

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• Desks are terrible places, no matter how many wheels a chair might have. You can't do much about how drawers fill up.

  Gary Lutz

  Might, Matter, Wheels

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• I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into the horizon. And everything is so wonderful.

  Jean Sibelius

  Sleep, Horizon, Orchestra

  Jean Sibelius' remarks to Jussi Jalas, August 27, 1943.

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• To design a desk which may cost $1,000 is easy for a furniture designer but to design a functional and good desk which shall cost only $50 can only be done by the very best

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Ikea, Design, Cost

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• I could have an office all to myself but since my collaborators don’t have one, then I too am contented to have a desk in a shared room.

  Ingvar Kamprad

  Office, Rooms, Collaborators

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• Of all the forms of exercise that I have done, Power Plate® training is the most concise. If I start my session at 9.30am, I know I can be at my desk by 10.15am and I can even fit in a workout before rehearsals. Power Plate® exercise is not at all intimidating, and I know that in a short session I have had a complete workout.

  Maureen Lipman

  Workout, Exercise, Training

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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 at work. You will return to Working for Good again and again. It belongs on your desk and in your heart.

  Patricia Aburdene

  Heart, Differences, Champion

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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

  Suicide, Photograph, Favourite

  "Roddy Doyle's rules for writers". Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

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• The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  America, Library, Libraries And Librarians

  Kurt Vonnegut (2017). “A Man Without a Country”, p.103, Dial Press

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• When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When I'm not at my desk, the rest of the time, I try to stay in that character and see the world the way that character would It's almost like method acting in a way — keeping the character close the way the actor keeps a script close and always tries to be in character.

  Stewart O'Nan

  Writing, Character, Trying

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• I generally concentrate on work for three or four hours every morning. I sit at my desk and focus totally on what I’m writing. I don’t see anything else, I don’t think about anything else.

  Haruki Murakami

  Morning, Writing, Thinking

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”, p.77, Random House

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• When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made.

  Harry S. Truman

  Decision, Bucks, Motto

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• The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you desk and goes back, again and again, to that terrific power piece at the end of the workout when it felt as if you and the boat were flying, as if you legs were two cannons and your arms were two oars and the great lateral muscles of your back were pterodactyl wings and the brim of your baseball cap was a harpoon.

  Barry S. Strauss

  Baseball, Workout, Wings

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• The Democratic line is that the Republican House does nothing but block and oppose. In fact, it has passed hundreds of bills only to have them die upon reaching the desk of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He has rendered the Senate inert by simply ensuring that any bill that might present a politically difficult vote for his Democratic colleagues never even comes to the floor.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Block, Majority Leader, House

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