Quotes About A Clean Desk

#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. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

C.E. Murphy

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

Laurence J. Peter

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

Mark Twain

#9. 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

#10. Bipartisanship is nice, but it cannot be a substitute for action, not having it cannot prevent us from going forward.

Nancy Pelosi

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

Michio Kaku

#12. You're stuck with me Skyguy-Ahsoka

Dave Filoni

#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. I just really want it at some point to be OK for women and young girls to be sexy because I think that's a power, a gift that we were given by God or the universe or whatever.

Megan Fox

#17. When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.

Stephen Covey

#18. My foray into young adult lit was by no means planned. I wrote the first 'Alfred Kropp' book as an adult novel, which everyone loved but no one would publish - until I changed my protagonist from a thirty-something P.I. into a 15-year-old kid. After that, it was off to the races, and I am so glad.

Rick Yancey

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space.

Vint Cerf

#22. 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

#23. A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then.

Tommy Rettig

#24. 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

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

Bruce Mau