Desking Quotes & Sayings

Yes, I still think of him as that, call him that. It's as real as any of his other names. — Mal Peet

At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen. — I.L. Peretz

Every day, I want to sleep in your arms and wake up by your side in the mornings. — Jagdish Joghee

Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen. — Zig Ziglar

I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her. — Vera Farmiga

A dog wakens your heart to joy and companionship. — Pam Brown

Wearing a bow tie is a statement. Almost an act of defiance. — Rick Kaplan

You loved a man who treated you like absinthe, half poison and half god. — Anais Nin

If human misery and efficient boredom could be beautiful, there would have been a kind of beauty in the endlessly replicated, hot-desking, rack-mounted workers and their swiftly exchangeable work stations. Lit up by the dead light of our monitors we would constantly scratch at our keyboards - it could have been sadly romantic, if it hadn't been for the sirens. Hanging — Mike Daisey

I like to play 'Battleship,' and I also like 'Wordle' on iPhone. These are good things to play while you're on set. 'Words with Friends' is also great. — Natalie Martinez

Seventy percent of US companies now use open-plan offices and hot desking in the hope that these free-form physical structures will provoke free-form thinking. This architectural determinism isn't entirely convincing - there's plenty of evidence that people find open workspaces noisy, distracting, and impersonal. Walking through several such workspaces recently, I couldn't help but notice how hard everyone was working to simulate privacy. Plugged into headphones, surrounded by stacks of books and temporary dividers, defensiveness was more evident than openness. Architecture alone won't change mindsets and tearing down physical walls won't demolish the mental silos that trap thinking. — Margaret Heffernan