I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.
Quiet is better than loud.
I have 3 kids and a cat and a busy, noisy house. I get more time to relax when I'm working.
My office. It's drab and boring but quiet.
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.
I don't listen to anything when I'm writing. I need total quiet, which is astounding, given that I spent years working for a newspaper and having to write features surrounded by ringing phones and people shouting.
Quiet is the new loud.
At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.
I'm naturally a loud person. It can be a bit overpowering.
My house in Connecticut is very quiet, and when I'm trying to concentrate, I don't even allow the cat inside my second-floor study.