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I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.

~Bill Gates

Topics: Big Blogs Calendar Check Desk Desktop Focus Instead Lists Monitoring Online Particular Projects Up Use Walk I Can E-Mail E-Mails

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On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

~Bill Gates

Topics: Area Back Because Desk Desktop Direct Display Drag Form Go Impact Items Large Never Next Once Productivity Screen Screens Single Three You I Can

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When you hear of somebody named Goldberg, you think of a guy sitting behind a desk investing your money.

~Bill Goldberg

Topics: Behind Desk Guy Hear Investing Money Named Sitting Somebody Think You Your

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Nine times out of ten, people consider a nice little Jewish boy the kid who grows up and sits behind a desk preparing your taxes. I've certainly broken that stereotype in many ways.

~Bill Goldberg

Topics: Behind Boy Broken Certainly Consider Desk Grows Jewish Kid Little Many Nice Nine Out People Preparing Stereotype Taxes Ten Times Up Ways Who Your

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In fact, I spent 25 years as a reporter, swearing I would never become an editor. Sitting at a desk, watching other people go out and find the story, and then fussing with other people's words - I just didn't get the appeal of that.

~Bill Keller

Topics: Appeal Become Desk Editor Fact Find Get Go In Fact Just Never Other Out People Reporter Sitting Spent Story Swearing Then Watching Words Would Years

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I keep three framed photographs on my desk: the latest school picture of my daughter; a photo of my wife getting her diploma from the University of Chicago; and Lytton Strachey, looking serenely self-possessed.

~Blake Bailey

Topics: Chicago Daughter Desk Diploma Framed Getting Her Keep Latest Looking Photo Photographs Picture School Three University Wife

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Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.

~Bob Woodward

Topics: Been City Desk Had Still Suppose Uncovered Watergate

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When somebody was looking in my locker, it was like going in my desk. Somebody happened to be looking in my locker when they shouldn't have been.

~Bobby Bonilla

Topics: Been Desk Going Happened Like Locker Looking Somebody

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I thought if I really wanted to be serious about writing, I should make my own desk.

~Brad Barkley

Topics: About Desk Make My Own Own Really Serious Should Thought Wanted Writing

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It's a very smart, progressive bunch, these people that make country music. They're not country hicks sitting behind a desk with a big cigar giving out record deals and driving round in Cadillacs with cattle horns on the front grille: it's a bunch of really wonderful, open-minded, great people down on Music Row that make this music.

~Brad Paisley

Topics: Behind Big Bunch Cattle Country Country Music Deals Desk Down Driving Front Giving Great Great People Horns Make Music Open-Minded Out People Progressive Really Record Round Row Sitting Smart Very Wonderful

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