Quotes About Desk Jobs

#1. I was terrible at desk jobs.

David Chang

#2. And for what portion of human history had people even had desk jobs?

Rebecca Makkai

#3. I did a lot of freelance desk publishing jobs when I graduated from college. I sort of earned a living doing that while I was writing plays, which was what I wanted to do. My hope was to become a playwright.

Jason Katims

#4. I just didn't want any order in anything. I have to leave an ordered life for them - the kids - and my job. I have to be at my desk at a certain time, and I have to answer e-mails within a certain time period.

Victoria Chang

#5. I think I just have a problem generally in life of wanting more of everything - more emotion, more drama, more glitz.

Florence Welch

#6. Wisdom gives you the ability to chose what is right.
In the darkness of hate and ignorance, it is the light.

Debasish Mridha

#7. A slut is a person of any gender who has the courage to lead life according to the radical proposition that sex is nice and pleasure is good for you. - The Ethical Slut

Nikki Sex

#8. I can't just sit at my desk and let this web of weirdness spin around me. (That describes a lot of jobs, I realize, but this is potentially a special kind of magick-with-a-k weirdness.

Robin Sloan

#9. I've never really had a desk job, but I've died one day at a time all over the place.

Jon Foreman

#10. I can walk around fine, but I don't have a desk job.

Venus Williams

#11. I had a wife that did not want me to have a singular regret about chasing my dream, which helped me tremendously. I did not want to have a singular regret. I always held out hope that it was going to turn for the better. That's always what motivated me was hope.

R.A. Dickey

#12. I can only be in charge of producing the work itself. That's a hard enough job. I refuse to take on additional jobs, such as trying to police what anybody thinks about my work once it leaves my desk.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#13. The challenge for any fiction writer is that your job involves simply sitting at a desk for a very, very long time.

Chad Harbach

#14. There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

Charles De Montesquieu

#15. I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.

Barbara Kingsolver

#16. It's amazing that I sit at my job all day and no one sees me clearly enough to say What is that boy doing behind a desk?

James Richardson

#17. I don't think I could ever have a desk job, so I get to be mobile. I'm on set. I get to walk around kind of doing my own thing, being independent - it's just a really good vibe. Everyone on a film set is very happy, and they all love their jobs, so it's a cool environment to be a part of.

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

#18. A sick society, unlike a sick individual, fares best under the ministration of many doctors.

Georgia Harkness

#19. What we do with our lives every day, whether at school, a desk job, or keeping the home in order, is our most basic opportunity to glorify God. That's what your role in His story looks like day in and day out. Instead of waiting to be offered a new role, play the current one well.

Trip Lee