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Retaining a sense of control is really important. I like to do things in my own time, and in my own style, so an office with targets and bureaucracy just wouldn't work.

— Daniel Tammet

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

But why should I run for office and lose what little influence I have?

— Ron Silver

Having principled men and women in office is how you protect yourself from tyranny, and that was something I learned from when I was 2, 3, 5 years old.

— Ted Cruz

I understand why offices need to have office parties. I understand why offices need to have betting pools. No matter what the job, you need things to foster camaraderie and let off steam.

— Drew Goddard

As a bureaucracy becomes more established, it develops its own career structure. It is less dependent, and should be less dependent, on individual personalities. Absolutely no one is indispensable.

— John Scarlett

Getting paperwork under control makes me feel more in control of my life generally.

— Gretchen Rubin

Even though worker capacity and motivation are destroyed when leaders choose power over productivity, it appears that bosses would rather be in control than have the organization work well.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

It's easier to run for office than to run the office.

— Thomas P. O'Neill

There is no better way to manage than by walking around. Autocracy doesn't work. Talk to people in their offices, find out what's on their minds.

— Maurice Flanagan

A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.

— Keith Miller

✗Opposing Perspectives

When we did 'The Office,' no one knew who we were, so it was easy to champion us; you could own us. Once you become successful, people don't have that any more, so it becomes more polarised. Some people want to champion you, and others want to slag you off. It doesn't concern me.

— Stephen Merchant