Office Quotes - Page 26

• Lenin's ideal was to build a nation's production effort according to the model of the post office.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Effort, Models, Ideals

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• Congratulation s to Rahm Emanuel on being elected mayor of Chicago. His first order of business after taking office will be to actually move to Chicago.

  Jay Leno

  Congratulations, Moving, Order

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• Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison - you can pray and know God hears!

  Billy Graham

  Prayer, Athletic, Digging

  Billy Graham (1995). “Secret of happiness, The”

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• If American citizens don't wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran.

  Virgil Goode

  Immigration, Citizens, Wake Up

  "Rep. Goode: No Apology For Muslim Letter". www.cbsnews.com. December 20, 2006.

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• My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Mother, Father, Financial

  "POPPY Z. BRITE: Just Not That Weird". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. January, 1998.

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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

  Rooms, Desks, Collaborators

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• I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

  Gary Gygax

  Home, Risk, Instinct

  "Dungeon Master: The Life and Legacy of Gary Gygax" by David Kushner, www.wired.com. March 10, 2008.

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• One negative person can create a miserable office environment for everyone else.

  Jon Gordon

  Negative, Environment, Miserable

  Jon Gordon (2012). “The Positive Dog: A Story About the Power of Positivity”, p.14, John Wiley & Sons

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• The vast majority of psychopaths, like an iceberg, are underwater, and like an iceberg, they are inert. They do nothing. They're just there. They torment their spouse by being unempathic, but they don't beat her or kill her. They bully coworkers, but they don't burn the office. They are not dramatic. They are pernicious. Most psychopaths are subtle. They are more like poison than a knife, and they are more like slow-working poison than cyanide.

  Sam Vaknin

  Knives, Bully, Cyanide

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• All politicians should be required to drink Ayahuasca 10 times before taking office.

  Graham Hancock

  Ayahuasca, Drink, Politician

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• We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.

  Shane Leslie

  Should Have, Return, Comeback

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• One saintly priest attracts more souls to Christ...than do those who lack the imprint of their sacred office

  Dietrich von Hildebrand

  Soul, Sacred, Christ

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• We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.

  Albert Camus

  Blood, Color, Smell

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.189, Vintage

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• I worked in an insurance office for six years, and it was there that I just woke up one day and realised there was something massively lacking in my life, and a non-contributory pension and a subsidised canteen could not fill it.

  Jamie Sives

  Years, One Day, Six

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• In England, philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with the kings... In France warrants are issued against them, they are persecuted, pelted with pastoral letters: Do we see that England is any the worse for it?

  John Dewey

  Kings, Letters, France

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• The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.

  Rainn Wilson

  Being Single, Style, Documentaries

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 19, 2008.

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• I'll leave you with one that I have hanging on my office wall, compliments of Nike: Impossible is nothing.

  Muhammad Ali

  Nike, Wall, Hanging On

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• During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front.

  Philip Gibbs

  War, Months, News

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• To get your name well enough known that you can run for a public office, some people do it by being great lawyers or philanthropists or business people or work their way up the political ladder. I happened to become known from a different route.

  John Glenn

  Running, Names, Space

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• The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Suicide, Suicidal, Effort

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• You know, you just know, that after the president goes out there and announces he wants to make community college free for all Americans - as though anything government does is 'free' - or is unilaterally and unconstitutionally legalizing millions of undocumented immigrants, he comes back to the offices, pulls out the presidential BlackBerry, and gleefully follows along as the Right goes completely ape over these wild policy decisions.

  John Podhoretz

  College, Government, Community

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• If the President really wanted to know exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down to their offices and demand that they answer him honestly.

  Bob Filner

  President, Answers, Demand

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• Our offices must always be headed by the kind of men who command respect. Not phonies, zeros or bastards.

  David Ogilvy

  Men, Kind, Advertising

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• That is the kind of America in which I believe. And it represents the kind of Presidency in which I believe - a great office that must neither be humbled by making it the instrument of any one religious group nor tarnished by arbitrarily withholding its occupancy from the members of any one religious group. I believe in a President whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the Nation or imposed by the Nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

  John F. Kennedy

  Religious, Believe, Views

  Speech at Greater Houston Ministerial Association, Rice Hotel, Houston, Texas, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 12, 1960.

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• I would not have suffered my name to have been used by my friends on anywise as President of the United States, or candidate for that office, if I and my friends could have had the privilege of enjoying our religious and civil rights as American citizens, even those rights which the Constitution guarantees unto all her citizens alike.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Religious, Freedom, Names

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