Cubicles Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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."

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

Monotony collapses time. Novelty unfolds it.

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.

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.

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

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.