Quotes about office

The thirty-plus years of marriage between the ceiling and the cement plaster showed signs of weakness by frequently developing cracks and holes.

Why would you turn right on a red light when we can all just sit here behind you waiting to die... #AHOLE

He preferred the term "study" to "office," as an office meant work. No way around it. In a study, you could, well, study, or nap or read, or stare into space thinking long thoughts. You could certainly work, but it wasn't a requirement.

I would never sabotage you, Mya.” He wiped away one of my stray tears with his fingertips. “Of course, deep down I did want you to stay, but I had nothing but nice things to say about you. I even said they’d be foolish not to hire you, but—” “But?” I glared at him. “But what?” “But if they thought the low-ass salaries they were offering were good enough for you, they needed to increase them exponentially or move along to someone else. I thought you deserved more.” “Is that all?” “No,” he said, l

the first place smelled like work, so I took the second

Shh! It happens. Sh!it happens.

To be a manager, one must be able to manage her own relationship with the people around her, as well as the relationships among her subordinates. Just being perfect in paperwork and operations does not make one a good manager.

To be a manager, one must be able to manage her own relationship with the people around her, as well as the relationships among his subordinates. Just being perfect in paperwork and operations does not make one a good manager.

Avoid living in new homes and working in new offices due to the high levels of chemical out-gassing that they exhibit during their first year.

During rough time in a Business, a Leader should act like a ship captain. His first and foremost priority should be to put his employees to security before thinking of his own welfare.

It doesn't matter what your boss thinks as long as he doesn't cry.

Appraisal – the best resources will get the worst result

Never lose time in sending the scapegoat to the slaughterhouse.

Therefore in one line why don't these (The higher authority of an office) people just say, "You are our sex toy. We will use you as our vibrator until we derive pleasure in earning profits from you. Once we learn that you are of no use and you are not giving the pleasure we need, we will kick you or throw you in a dustbin as we throw a condom in dustbin after sex.

His lips reached mine and enveloped them, soft as velvet and yet unyielding.

His silent, stony face was only inches away now. He was so near, so terribly near – and then he moved to close the last bit of distance.

Our offices are filled with people working their lives out to enrich their boss, government or company.

As we look over the list of the early leaders of the republic, Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and others, we discern that they were all men who insisted upon being themselves and who refused to truckle to the people. With each succeeding generation, the growing demand of the people that its elective officials shall not lead but merely register the popular will has steadily undermined the independence of those who derive their power from popular election. The persistent refusal of the Adamses

Formal business situations are likely to be the least revealing because these are the times when all of us are most likely to have our ‘game faces' on.

Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home. It was better never to have been born-never to have wanted anything, never to have hoped for anything.

Every single aspect of what we do at work comes down to people and managing people, selling to people, working with people or making them do what you want them to do.

If you chose Option 2 [confrontation], you did well. People will be less likely to engage you in office small talk of any kind, but that's likely a benefit when you consider the fact that every ten minutes of office small talk takes one year off of your life.

The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.

Ask one question: Would a Millennial (anyone born between 1980 and 2000) look forward to working here?Try this exercise. Take a group of people into a large, open room with tackable wall surfaces or whiteboards. Give them large sheets of paper, sticky notes, markers, and tape. Ask them to create a concept for a work environment (don't say “office”) using the following words: high-energy, collaborative, healthy, productive, engaging, innovative, interactive, high-tech, and regenerating.

If you don't feel drowsy after lunch and don't yawn in the office, you're not a perfect employee!

My mind was not that of a conqueror, but that of a cow that spends its life chewing contentedly in the meadow of invoices, waiting for the train of eternal grace to pass by. How good it felt to exist without pride of ambition. To live in hibernation.

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

The garden is an unemployed township-based man's cubicle.

... In a ROWE* people don't have schedules.They show up when they want.They don't have to be in the office at certain time, or anytime.They just have to get their work done.How they do it ?When they do it ?Where they do it ?It's totally up to them.Meetings & this kind of environments are Optional.What happens ... ?Almost across the board !- Productivity goes up- Worker Engagement goes up- Worker Satisfaction goes up- Turnovers goes down- Autonomy .. Mastery .. Purpose -these are the building blo

Self-employed people work where they live. Entrepreneurs live where they work.

The office’ is a cemetery of dreams.

Although he too was heading to work, Shahid was glad he wasn't dragging himself off to some office job. Shahid's view: anybody who had to wear a suit to work died a little inside, every day.

As I write this entry, I touch a saber-tooth tiger skull in my office. Without stars there could be no skulls

You can tell if a person is organized by checking his desktop.

You can now interact with Sheriff Derrick Decker on Facebook. Just look up Derrick Decker!

How is Mrs. Rivers doing?' asked the agent, a very tall and large man, well-dressed, bald and depressing, with a manner of gliding into his office from a side door without perceptibly moving his feet which had struck terror into many young writers and caused them to accept the lowest terms Mr. Hobb could offer.

What happened to the good old days when rich white men just bought their way into office?

Therefore let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers' (Rom 13.1). The Christian must not be drawn to the bearers of high office; his calling is to stay below. The higher power are over him, and he must remain under them. The world exercises dominion, the Christian serves, and thus he shares the earthly lot of his Lord, who became a servant. 'For there is no power but of God.' (Mark 10.42-45) These words are addressed to the Christians, not to the powers.

Discipline at the office had long been enforced by use of three methods: the meeting of the first kind, the meeting of the second kind, and the meeting of the third kind.

We shot many films in Delhi that turned out to be successful at the box office. So the attachment is definitely on the positive side.

My mother still sends a cake to the office for my birthday.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen. So it is a shocking experience to them that he came in to office.

When I interviewed Paul Bremer in his office, he had almost no books on his shelves. He had a couple of management books, like 'Leadership' by Rudolph Giuliani. I didn't take it as an encouraging sign.

I think I can hold every portfolio - defense, finance and Foreign Ministry. I think personally I'd like the foreign office.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.

What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment.

Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.

My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.

I have not the smarts or patience for political office.

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.

One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.

I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.

I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I'm travelling.

Christmas coming means one thing for comedians: office party gigs!

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.

Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.

The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.

In my home office, I have two large, 30-inch computer monitors - a Mac and a PC. They share the same mouse and keyboard, so I can type or copy and paste between them. I'll typically do Web stuff on the Mac and e-mail and chat stuff on the PC.

On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.

I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in.

I'm not involved in politics, and I've never had any political role. I've never been in office. I've never taken any public administrative jobs.

And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.

Everything from who sits on your local board of education to the prosecutors and judicial appointments in your area and much more are all impacted by who holds political office.

I had heard of offices feeling like prisons, but in this case our prison felt, rather anticlimactically, like an office.

The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts bestowed for the good of the country and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.

If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few: by resignation none.

This struggle and scramble for office for a way to live without work will finally test the strength of our institutions.

The insolence of office.