Best Cubicles Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I don't have an office. I sit in a cubicle with everybody else. That's partly so no one can ask for an office, which in a fast-growing company isn't practical. But it's also so I can keep my finger on the pulse of how people are feeling.”

People I Can Feelings Asks Company Growing Office Fingers Practicals Pulse Cubicles

Author:Kevin P. Ryan

“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.”

People Talent Lifetime Cradle Wrong Direction Caskets Uncovering Cubicles

Author:Tom Rath

“God is still in the business of coming down to earth: to this cubicle, this email, this room, this house, this job, this hospital room, this car, this bed, this vacation. Any place can become Bethel, the house of God. Cleveland, maybe. Or the chair you're sitting in as you read these words.”

Stills God Earth Jobs House Rooms Car Bed Sitting Chairs Hospitals Vacation Email Down To Earth Cleveland Cubicles House Of God

Book:God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God

Source: God Is Closer Than You Think: This Can Be the Greatest Moment of Your Life Because This Moment Is the Place Where You Can Meet God

“They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called "work" in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking "outside the box"; and when they die they are put in a box.”

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it....I personally know so many poets that work a 9 to 5 in a cubicle and come home and write poetry. Their poetry is just as powerful and moving as anything that I've ever written, if not more.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Real Home Moving Artist Powerful Written Poet Paid Poetry Is Coming Home Unfair Real Artists Cubicles

Author:Sarah Kay

“If you have any doubt that time is relative, try stretching fifteen minutes' worth of input of over four hours cubicle-cell time with an ultra-slow internet connection and frequent visits from supervisors.”

Ifs Trying Hours Doubt Four Minutes Internet Connections Cells Relative Fifteen Stretching Input Ultras Supervisors Cubicles Internet Connection

Author:Rob Payne

“Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other.”

People Next Mail Cubicles

Author:Willard Scott

“We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.”

Humans Littles Age Human Beings Technology Skype Cubicles

Author:Sarah McLachlan

“We should stop looking to law to provide the final answer.... Law cannot save us from ourselves.... We have to go out and try to accomplish our goals and resolve disagreements by doing what we think is right. That energy and resourcefulness, not millions of legal cubicles, is what was great about America. Let judgment and personal conviction be important again.”

Thinking Should Trying Important America Law Energy Goal Answers Millions Judgment Finals Individuality Conviction Accomplish Resolve Disagreement Resourcefulness Cubicles

Author:Philip K. Howard

“For people on my side of the cubicle, the goal is always creativity. Spending your time overcoming corporate resistance to creativity - I just don't want to do that.”

People Want Sides Goal Creativity Overcoming Spending Resistance Corporate Cubicles Spending Your Time

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“If you have nothing to hide, if you're actually working for eight hours, or 10 or 12 hours, however long people decide to work, it's OK to have windows around conference rooms, it's OK to have cubicles. Because you're actually working. If you're not working, doing social media and spending half the day for personal stuff, then an environment like this will actually bother you.”

People Ifs Long Social Stuff Hours Rooms Half Environment Media Window Social Media Eight Spending Bother Working It Conferences Cubicles Personal Stuff

Author:Marcelo Claure

“Hewlett Packard at one point had only three private offices. One belonged to Hewlett, one to Packard, and the third to a guy named Paul Ely who annoyed so many coworkers with his bellowing on the phone that the company finally extended his cubicle walls to the ceiling.”

Guy Three Company Wall Office Thirds Phones Ceilings Annoyed Coworker Cubicles

Author:Robert X. Cringely

“The place that I worked I used to joke about it. There was a, every morning at 10:30 I'd come into work and I'd go into this cubicle that had a little upright piano and fake white cork bricks on the wall, and a little slate that came out of the wall that you could actually write on. And a door that locked from the outside. Every day from 10 to 6, we'd go in there and pretend that we were 13 year old girls and write these songs. That was the gig.”

Writing Years Littles Used Song Girl White Morning Doors Wall Jokes Piano Fake Locked Every Morning Bricks Gigs Slate Cork Cubicles

Author:Al Kooper

“I have so many books to write now. So I'll write from home. Sometimes I'm writing in the office too, in my cubicle. It looks like a mess. It doesn't look like anybody uses the spot.”

Writing Looks Book Sometimes Use Home Office Spots Mess Cubicles

Author:Gerard Way

“If you're playing a one-minute game, I could squeeze in five to six games before anybody walked by my cubicle. So I got really good at blitz, one-minute chess games. But that's kind of like the cheap chess version.”

Ifs Kind Games Five Minutes Six Chess Versions One Minute Chess Game Blitz Cubicles

Author:Paul Banks

“I think we're starved for a life of the senses. We're in the garage, we're in the car, we drive to work, we're in a windowless cubicle that's gray and beige. In a way, it's funny that we consider ourselves an advanced culture, because people who live in so-called primitive environments still enjoy the richness of the smells, colors, and sounds of our world. We all crave that.”

People Thinking World Way Stills Culture Enjoy Sound Environment Car Color Smell Senses Our World Gray Primitive Crave Richness Garage Cubicles

Author:Janet Fitch

“In fact, most people are being squeezed in their little cubicle, and their creativity is forced out elsewhere, because the company can't use it. The company is organized to get rid of variants.”

People Littles Facts Use Company Creativity Organized Elsewhere Cubicles

Author:Scott Adams

“The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.”

White Revolution Office Blue Workers Reaching Transformed Workplace Collars Blue Collar White Collar Cubicles Blue Collar Workers

Author:Tom Peters

“Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.”

Wall Noise Cubicles

Author:Margaret Heffernan

“Authentic brands don't emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does.”

Inspirational Doe Real Inspiring Company Marketing Authenticity Advertising Brands Agency Branding Advertising Agencies Emanate Cubicles

Author:Howard Schultz

“If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.”

Ifs Giving Might Grows Born Rooms Sun Growing Up Sky Nervous Cells Over You Vacation Crowded Breakdown Corridors Nervous Breakdown Cubicles

Book:Foundation Trilogy

Source: Foundation Trilogy

“With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go straight from the classroom to the cubicle to the coffin, it doesn't mean they're lazy. It means they're sane."”

Ifs Mean Generations Aging Lazy Classroom Sane Exhausted Elders Coffins Younger Generation Insomniac Cubicles

Author:Anna Quindlen

“What do you think deja vu is for?". Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.”

“When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.”

Flesh Don't Change Sameness Cubicles

Book:Collected Stories

Source: Collected Stories

“I’ve seen far too many Christians who are more than willing to travel halfway around the world to volunteer for a week in an orphanage, but who cannot bring themselves to take the personal risk of sharing Jesus with the co-worker who sits day after day in the cubicle right next to them.”

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Author:Lee Strobel

“I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.”

Writing Kind War Drudgery Cubicles

Author:Walter Mosley

“Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.”

Collapse Novelty Monotony Cubicles

Book:Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Source: Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

“There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God and live in a cubicle, play an organ and stay drunk on wine.”

People Way Believe Play Wine Drunk Believe In God Organs Monk Cubicles

Book:Ham On Rye

Source: Ham On Rye

“If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it. No need to wait for someone in a cubicle halfway across the country to decide if you're worthy.”

Ifs Want Needs Writing Book Country Waiting Records Albums Worthy Halfway Cubicles

Author:Seth Godin

“From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to our shortcomings than to our strengths.”

More Time Cradle Shortcomings Cubicles

Author:Tom Rath

“If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.”

Ifs Wanted Brain Environment Design Classroom Doing You Cubicles Medina

Book:Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

Source: Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

“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.”

Has Beens Sometimes Results Brain Exercise Built Performances Lifetime Decades Classroom Jungle Astonishing Cognitive Elevation Sedentary Cubicles Grasslands

Author:John Medina

“You know what a cubicle basically says? It basically says, like, 'You know what? We don't think you're smart enough for an office, but we don't want you to look at anybody.”

Thinking Knows Want Looks Enough Like You Office Smart Cubicles

Author:Bill Burr

“If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom. If you wanted to create a business environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a cubicle. And if you wanted to change things, you might have to tear down both and start over.”

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Author:John Medina

“Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.”

“Corporations no longer try to fit square pegs into round holes; they just fit them into square cubicles.”

Trying Fit Rounds Holes Corporations Squares Peg Cubicles Square Pegs

Author:Robert Breault

“We want someone else to act. But miracles aren't what other people do. They're what each of us does. They're what happens when ordinary people take extraordinary action. To be a miracle doesn't mean you have to tackle problems across the globe. It means making a difference in your own living room, cubicle, neighborhood, community.”

Source: Be the Miracle: 50 Lessons for Making the Impossible Possible

“Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.”

Ifs Long Next Exercise One Day Paper Sitting Bounds Disappear Passing Passings Collapse Papers Long Life Novelty Monotony Cubicles

Book:Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Source: Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

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