Quotes About Workplace

A diva should be able to get some time off for pregnancy without fearing her career will be on the line.

I could not understand why Meryl Streep, for example, is allowed to work while pregnant and I'm not.

I really thought when I was pregnant with my first that it wouldn't affect my work at all; it would just be a baby that grows up on set. And I was absolutely wrong. For women, the high point of their career and needing to have babies just don't really go together.

I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

I'm on the show, 'Supergirl,' and one of my coworkers is David Harewood. He's an amazing man.

They didn't let us see daylight on 'Community.'

I basically lived like a guy for, certainly, the first decade of my career, and I just wanted to blend in.

Over the last couple of decades, the personalization of the office changed dramatically... there's an informality people often take for the absence of rules - which it's not.

Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return.

There's no denying for me that 'Emmerdale' is an amazing place to work. I've got so much to be grateful for. Over the years it's given me a great sense of purpose and a real sense of belonging.

Having worked with some of the characters in football and having to be nice to them - and knowing your job depends on you having to be nice to them - just doesn't appeal to me.

I like to sit at my desk... sometimes I get inspiration when I'm going about my normal day-to-day life.

I always thought there were some people who were just destined to be disengaged in their jobs because that was their personality, and no matter how hard managers tried, there wasn't much they could do with some of those people.

Office romances are few, short, and not usually destructive.

Women are so policed and devalued and dehumanized when it comes to the work they do.

One of the advantages of something like Slack is that I tap on the app icon, and it's just the people at my company and just the people I work with. There's a strong boundary there which aids in comprehension. It's one less molecule of glucose in my brain to manage it all.

Automation is driving the decline of banal and repetitive tasks.

There are people who want the comfort and structure of a job where they're given tasks and told what to do. I think it's actually a minority of people. The majority of people don't want that, but I'd say that the companies I've built are full of people with something to prove.

In some environments, roles shift and change each period depending on what the company's needs are. On the other hand, many functional roles can become very repetitive if you perform similar tasks over and over again.

I have this nook at Milk Bar that's my office, and my desk was just full of every box of Kellogg's cereal, and at different times during the day, I would open up a box, eat a bowl of cereal, and I live in a world of Post-it notes, so I would leave tasting notes on all the cereal.

If we're having a tough day, we'll bring the babies on, and suddenly, these crew guys who have, like, tattoos all over their necks are cooing and fawning.

Our government and its social policies, its tax breaks, the way school days work, so much of the country we live in is built for married couples with a male breadwinner and a female domestic laborer. Government needs to be massively altered in order to serve this population.

I think the company that has the clearest set of values is Amazon. That company knows what it is. It may be that it's not your cup of tea, but every single person at that company knows what the Amazon values are.

Our philosophy always teaches us that you can have intense activity, but inside, you have to have peace. The office has to reflect that.