Cubicles famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Though we have been stuffing them into classrooms and cubicles for decades, our brains actually were built to survive in jungles and grasslands. A lifetime of exercise can result in a sometimes astonishing elevation in cognitive performance, compared with those who are sedentary.
-- John Medina

#Exercise #Brain #Cubicles
Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.
-- Margaret Heffernan

#Wall #Cubicles #Noise
Corporations no longer try to fit square pegs into round holes; they just fit them into square cubicles.
-- Robert Breault

#Squares #Trying #Cubicles
From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to our shortcomings than to our strengths.
-- Tom Rath

#Cubicles #More Time #Cradle
Far too many people spend a lifetime headed in the wrong direction. They go not only from the cradle to the cubicle, but then to the casket, without uncovering their greatest talents and potential.
-- Tom Rath

#People #Cubicles #Talent
I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.
-- Walter Mosley

#War #Writing #Cubicles

Wearing a tuxedo isn't as simple as it sounds. I've been to a lot of award shows in Hollywood over the years and have seen some pretty sad tuxes. It's surprisingly easy to go off the rails.
Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom good maxims have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel, thrashed in and preached in.
I always thought that there was a really good chance that I wasn't going to get married.
I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.
I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations without panicking.
Forget about willpower. It's time for why-power. Your choices are only meaningful when you connect them to your desires and dreams. The wisest and most motivating choices are the ones aligned with that which you identify as your purpose, your core self, and your highest values. You've got to want something, and know why you want it, or you'll end up giving up too easily.
I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.
I shared a bed with my sister, Grace, until I was seventeen years old. She was afraid to sleep alone and would begin asking me around 5:00 P.M. every day whether she could sleep with me. I put on a big show of saying no, taking pleasure in watching her beg and sulk, but eventually I always relented. Her sticky, muscly little body thrashed beside me every night as I read Anne Sexton, watched reruns of SNL, sometimes even as I slipped my hand into my underwear to figure some stuff out.
Curiosity is the greatest source of ideas, retail revolutions, and insights.
Machiavelli had some cold tricks for people who wanted to be demagogues and wanted to take over the world.