Clean Desk Quotes

#1. If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.

Tom Peters

#2. Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy
that eluded him at the moment.

Terry Pratchett

#3. It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.

Michio Kaku

#4. You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.

Harold S. Geneen

#5. Nobody understands how the incessant pressure from above and the incurable incompetence below make it utterly impossible for me to do an adequate job and keep a clean desk.

Laurence J. Peter

#6. I am so organized that it's dysfunctional. Everything has a place. I am a very visual person, so my environment is important to me. If my environment is messy, I can't think clearly. I don't like clutter. A clean desk is a clean mind for me.

Alexa Von Tobel

#7. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered mind.

C.E. Murphy

#8. If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

Laurence J. Peter

#9. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

Mark Twain

#10. Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, "Respect me; I'm a respectable grown-up!" and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.

Wendy Wasserstein

#11. Especially in quail hunting, where the hunter is so focused on the bird that it makes everything else blurry. The bottom line in terms of bird hunting is what we call shooting zones.

Steven Hall

#12. I find my inspiration in myself.

Thelonious Monk

#13. Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.

Lady Bird Johnson

#14. If she had any sense at all, she'd clean out her desk and look for another job. Something safe and sane, like catching alligators or looking for land mines in Afghanistan.

Janet Evanovich

#15. I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing desk with a clean page, a new theme, and a mind awake.

Washington Irving

#16. American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

Henry Adams

#17. Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept a desk near the boiler room. Keats buttoning up his clean white shirt to write in, after work.

Mona Simpson

#18. Snoop is a tour de force! It's one of the smartest and most original books I've come across in a long time. I devoured it and then rushed over to clean up my desk and change my iPod playlist.

Richard Florida

#19. Bush explained his strategy for transfer of power. It's a two part plan. Part one: clean out his desk. Part two: rent a U-Haul.

David Letterman

#20. Poland remains undzer heym, our home, no matter how bitter the memories, how filled with disappointment and betrayal. Amerike iz goles, America is exile, a foreign land in which I speak a foreign tongue. But I will never live in Poland. I do not want to, though I do not see an end to the mourning.

Irena Klepfisz

#21. I'm trying out Theodore Finche, '80s kid, and seeing how he fits.
I fish through my desk for a cigarette, stick it in my mouth, and remember as I'm reaching for my lighter that Theodore Finch, '80s kid, doesn't smoke. God, I hate him, the clean-cut, eager little prick.

Jennifer Niven

#22. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

Emile Durkheim

#23. We owe the world an encounter with God

Bill Johnson

#24. Don't clean your desk. You might find something in the morning that you can't see tonight.

Bruce Mau