#paperwork

Management cares about only one thing. Paperwork. They will forgive almost anything else - cost overruns, gross incompetence, criminal indictments - as long as the paperwork's filled out properly. And in on time. ↗

— Connie Willis

#management #paperwork #forgiveness

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer. ↗

— Lee Child

#desks #email #empty #i #internet

I've actually considered going with my married name, Julia Hall, but all the paperwork. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#considered #going #hall #i #julia

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#i #i love #love #paperwork #stand

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#fire #ice #imagine #necessary #nostalgia

To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms. ↗

— William Hague

#been #came #children #down #filling

So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job. ↗

— Monica Lewinsky

#because #been #during #gone #government

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#brought #ceased #dealing #devoted #having

Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#coherent #does #down #everywhere #find

Finally, the House is working to require a comprehensive federal review of IRS regulations with a follow-up report to Congress on possible actions to reduce the tax paperwork burden imposed on small businesses. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#burden #businesses #comprehensive #congress #federal