Office Quotes

“I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere

“I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better.”
― Harry S. Truman

“If you want to know what’s your boss is really like, go to his office with a resignation letter. You will then see your boss’s true colours. You will then see his emotions without any filters. No boss can ever fake himself in front of an employee who has just resigned.”
― Abhaidev, The World's Most Frustrated Man

“You think you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, but it’s only some bugger with a torch bringing you more work.”
― David Brent

“Office life is bad for spirituality.”
― Abhaidev, The World's Most Frustrated Man

“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 to sacrifice the integrity of their own intellectual and moral standards and values for the sake of winning public office or popular favor is another of the measuring rods by which we may measure the divergence of American life from its starting point.”
― James Truslow Adams

“No one would allow that he could not see these much-admired clothes; because, in doing so, he would have declared himself either a simpleton or unfit of his office.”
― Hans Christian Andersen

“Why would you turn right on a red light when we can all just sit here behind you waiting to die... #AHOLE”
― Andy Ostrom, An A-Hole Goes To Work

“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.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“I used to work in a tall office building, and I carried a briefcase. It was empty of business, but when people tried to stop me to talk, I'd hold it up and say, "Gotta run. Look how busy I am.”
― Jarod Kintz, I design saxophone music in blocks, like Stonehenge

“While we are all forced to participate in the games of office politics; it is very defeatist position for a Black woman. Many would argue that White men in America write the rules, mange the courses, and call all the plays. They are trusted to lead organizations and are in key positions to make positive change. I believe that at this moment in time, the onus shouldn't be places on the underdogs to pull themselves up. The onus is on White men in power to create work environments that are both inclusive and sustainable for marginalized people.”
― Talisa Lavarry, Confessions From Your Token Black Colleague: True Stories & Candid Conversations About Equity & Inclusion In The Workplace

“You build yourself for the 'Workplace' rather than the other way round”
― Vivek Khandelwal

“I'd commit war crimes for horchata, you don't wanna know what I'd do to never return to the office.”
― stained hanes, 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat

“... contemporary studies show that the worst stress-related health typically occurs in middle management, with its killer combo of high work demands but little autonomy -responsibility without control.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

“They made their way past the heavy carved doors and his eyes imme-diately examined the room. He surveyed the perfectly preserved books lining the wall furthest from the entry, the dark amaranth desk and chair covered with large stacks of papers and the box of photobooks beside it on the floor. He inspected the glass on the coffee table and could just make out their fat cat Butter slowly making his way towards his feet to demand his daily massage.”
― Alexia D. Miller, Crystal Storm: Battleground

“Before minimizing your home office, clarify in your own mind how you want it to work. Are you running a business out of there? Is it just for processing the household accounts? Do you want it to be inspirational, encouraging creativity and dreaming, or would you rather keep it sparse and utilitarian? Is it a retreat where you like to read a book or sip a drink- more of a den than a mere office? Is it for the whole family or just the parents?”
― Joshua Becker, The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life

“the worst thing about prison was the dementors”
― michael scott

“When it comes to lunchtime... we gather to eat a bowl of fresh soup every day. At some point mid-morning, the question "what soup shall we make today?" will have arisen...
The soup then gets made in our office kitchen by the volunteer of the day, and devoured around the meeting table amid much conversation and debate!... It feels wholesome and nourishing in more ways than one; we get health from our meal, and well-being from our sense of community.”
― Oliver Heath, Design A Healthy Home: 100 ways to transform your space for physical and mental wellbeing

“Friendship is a life we live; not an office we occupy.”
― John Arthur

“The office or one's home is the reflection of the state of the person's mind. Whether it is clean, orderly, arranged, and organized; or cluttered, disorderly, jumbled, and messy. However, decluttering miraculously restores the state of the mind”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“In offices or working environments, if some people “TALK” with you like “SICK” people, we can understand that they are “TOXIC” people. I had to cross many toxic people in many working places across different countries. Now, I have secured enough immunity to work with toxic people.”
― Dr Sivakumar Gowder

“Nobody gave me a copy of your file."
"Of course not. I am your superior."
"Well, that's debatable.”
― J.L. Bryan, Lullaby

“Walking around Wall Street during the weekend, one gets the impression that the world’s affairs have been settled once and for all, that the age of work is finally over and that humanity has moved on to its next stage.”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust

“Workplace cheaters do not advertise their home partner, they advertise being single and available in their workplace office.”
― Steven Magee

“I was complaining about a messy worker I supervised to my manager. They took me to an office that looked like a bomb had been dropped on it and told me, "He is one of our top researchers!".”
― Steven Magee

“He raised a finger and then continued typing for another thirty seconds or so. Just long enough to show Maggie that his time was more valuable than hers—though she knew his salary, and it most definitely was not.”
― Cliff Jones Jr., Dreck

“And he said...

...no amount of cleaning will clear one's desk or workload.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“A tidy government office leads to clearer minds and better service.”
― Dipti Dhakul

“The office for Save All Living Things (SALT) is in a two-story building that was saved, but not nurtured.”
― Christina Estes, Off the Air

“The “ideology of Taylorism all but ensured a workplace divided against itself, both in space and in practice, with a group of managers controlling how work was done and their workers merely performing that work,” he writes. “It became increasingly clear . . . from the distance between the top and the bottom rungs of the ‘ladder,’ that some workers were never going to join the upper layers of management. For some, work was always, frankly, going to suck.”
― Nikil Saval