Danny Meyer Quotes

It's got to be weird to sit in an office all day and deal with these creative types without having any idea of what they do or how they do it.

I just used to have a really normal life, working in an office.

The kind of job where you come in and work 9 to 5, and where someone tells you what to do all day is becoming scarcer and scarcer.

In a job where you're on a computer all day, and we cater lunch and we put snacks in the kitchen, well, we all started gaining weight, even though we try to pick healthy stuff, but inevitably you find the cashews.

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.

I will never work in a cubicle.

The worst job I ever had was an office job that I had for six years, and that's nothing against the people who I was surrounded by, because they were wonderful people.

I was terrible at desk jobs.

I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. And I hate flying. So I have this really laid-back, good lifestyle, and it's hard to nudge me out of it.

Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.

Eventually, I just couldn't imagine myself being in a cubicle for my entire career.

I'm a hard-working girl. I go to the office. I work a normal 9 to 5 job most days.

If you're chained to a computer all day, you're not using up much energy, even if you drag yourself to the gym a couple of days a week. And to make matters worse for me, I've had a secondary career right along with my romance writing - cookbook author, under my real name, Ruth Glick.

I'm at my desk for about 9:30 A.M., and I stay there all day. Then there's a lot of checking Facebook and eBay and that sort of thing.

You know, I can't imagine 9 to 5 writing. That takes some stamina.

There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.

I usually get up between 5:30 and 6. The good news in Bentonville, Arkansas, is I can be in the office seven minutes later. I like to get in, work on e-mails and catch up.

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

For the three years I lived in New York leading up to moving out to Los Angeles for 'Mad Men,' I was an office temp at Ernst & Young in Times Square. That's about as desk-jobby as it can get. There was a lot of, 'Go two floors up and make a copy of this and then bring it to me.'

It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.

I never worked in an office in my life.

Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is not a great fit for me.

I get up in the morning, get to the office, and write until about six o'clock in the evening.

It's nice going to work and not having to always get on a plane to do it.

I felt that working at an office from the early morning was impossible for me. Anyway, I wanted to be free from that lifestyle as soon as possible. I wanted to take it easy.