Office Work Quotes

I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and torture the keys. My one saving grace as a writer is that, if I'm having trouble with the novel I'm writing, I write something else, a poem or a short story. I try to avoid writer's block by always writing something.

I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.

White Collar Workers

I get to office early at about 8 A.M., and I'm back home by 6 to write.

Here it may be convenient ... to say something of recreation and home life. Both are sadly curtailed by office.

One of the most welcome aspects of office work is that you do not need to be fully yourself.

[Describing the vice presidency:] ... inside work with no heavy lifting.

After only two or three weeks in office, we discovered we had a backlog of 100,000 emails sent to me. We had a backlog of a thousand invitations to speak at places all over the country - and all over the world, for that matter.

Had I not been a choreographer, I would have become nothing more than a traffic cop or peon in an office.

I thought administration was the running of the office. The Xerox machine. Paying bills.

I awake, I meditate, get the kids off to school, go to the gym, go to the Favored Nations office, and usually at around 1 pm I'm home and do music the rest of the day.

I did almost every job in the bank. It was real life, waking up in the morning, putting on a suit and tie and then having to go to work.

Sometimes I work in my office, just reading material, meeting writers, working on scripts. Other times, I'm on location. There's a lot of variety.

So much paperwork to read! So much paperwork to push away! So much paperwork to pretend he hadn't received and that might have been eaten by gargoyles.

I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.

We go to the office every day when we're writing - or supposed to be writing. It's not always productive, and there's a lot of procrastinating, just staring at the wall, like any other writing. But we just make ourselves go to the office every day for more or less the whole day.

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.

My work begins at around 3 P.M. I wake up at around 2 P.M., watch my serial cassettes, jog for 30 minutes, get my make-up done, and plunge into meetings lined up with my directors. By evening, I finish all meetings and go to my office, where I handle any problems that may have arisen there.

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

The best part about traveling for work is that it's better than sitting behind a desk!

I have no tolerance for boredom. I spend so many hours in the office, and I still love it.

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

Mark Hopkins was one of the truest and best men that ever lived. He had a keen analytical mind; was thoroughly accurate, and took general supervision of the books, contracts, etc. He was strictly the office man, and never bought or sold anything. I always felt when I was in the East that our business in his hands was entirely safe.

What do I want to do? Acting wise? Well, there's a western that I want to do. There's a lot of producing that I want to do, projects that I have stacked up that are in my office that I'd like to get done.

If all I did was answer the correspondence I get, that would be my job.