Jobs Quotes - Page 15

• I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.

  Kate Reardon

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Twitter post from Aug 28, 2013

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• I get mad at people who talk about traumatic job interviews, about going on one and getting rejected. I get rejected all the time and not only do I get rejected, but people have no problem being really specific about why I was rejected.

  Julia Sweeney

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• At the Harvard Business School, I really felt I had gained the ability to resolve difficult issues. But I also felt that I wasn't in the mainstream with my fellow students. During job-hunting season, for example, everybody shaved their beards for interviews. I thought, 'This is crazy.' So I grew a beard.

  Thomas G. Stemberg

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Trust God for the impossible-miracles are His department. Our job is to do our best, letting the Lord do the rest.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Miracle

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• This is about the daily ins and outs of a marriage. I don't want to give away the ending, but they are trying either to make the marriage work or make the separation work. Our job is to make that interesting.

  Rob Reiner

  Giving, Interesting, Trying

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• I been saying it for years: church is full of sneaky men posing as honest souls, and they are perpetuators our here looking for women just like you, with giant holes in your hearts, and they can smell when you got a good job and when you lonely as hell.

  Terry McMillan

  Lonely, Heart, Men

  Terry McMillan (2010). “Getting to Happy”, p.156, Penguin

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• God's job ain't to make our lives easier, it's to make us better souls by the lessons He gives us.

  Susan Crandall

  Giving, Soul, Lessons

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• I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.

  W. Richard Stevens

  Country, Years, Weather

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• Finally, you get the job, and you think you'll be dancing on the ceiling, but I just wanted to go take a nap. It was just like a weight had been lifted off or something.

  Josh Duhamel

  Thinking, Naps, Dancing

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• The financial crisis just made the hole deeper, which is why our stimulus needs to be both big and smart, both financially and educationally stimulating. It needs to be able to produce not only more shovel-ready jobs and shovel-ready workers, but more Google-ready jobs and Windows-ready and knowledge-ready workers.

  Thomas Friedman

  Smart, Science, Math

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• All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.

  George Gershwin

  Past, Men, Feeling Alone

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• Never send a human to do a machine's job.

  Hugo Weaving

  Inspiration, Machines, Humans

  "Fictional character: Agent Smith". "The Matrix", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• Don't torture yourself... that's my job

  Carolyn Jones

  Inspiration, Torture

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• Thousands of Mexicans gathered in Mexico City to protest high food prices. The protest only lasted an hour, because everyone had to leave for their jobs in Los Angeles

  Conan O'Brien

  Inspiration, Cities, Mexico

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• To be efficient means getting the job done in a smart, resourceful and timely way. To be effective means getting the right job done well, efficiently or not.

  Thomas Leonard

  Inspirational, Smart, Mean

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• It's hard for these athletes to stay healthy. They are constantly being bombarded with unhealthy advertising. Peer pressure can override the body's demand for health. Being healthy goes beyond 'not being sick' (where all lab reports indicate health), to feeling optimistic, energetic, strong and happy with their bodies. Teaching them to take charge of their bodies is a job of coaching. Help them gain discipline in conditioning, nutrition and attitude/emotional control.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Strong, Attitude

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• It's easy to enjoy your job and enjoy other people when things are going good. When you're faced with adversity is when the character of men is measured. There's a Mennonite proverb, 'Man, like a tree, is measured best when cut down.'

  Dan Quisenberry

  Sports, Character, Adversity

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• Teachers all over the nation are doing the job they are asked to do, but one they are not really prepared to do. To teach volleyball as a physical activity that is also a positive experience. If you care about volleyball, help these teachers have fun and learn more of this great game. Teach the teachers.

  John Kessel

  Sports, Volleyball, Teacher

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• No one would wish a bad marriage on anyone. But where do we think good marriages come from? They don't spring full blown from the head of Zeus any more than does a good education...Why should a marriage require fewer tears and less toil and shabbier commitment than your job or your clothes or your car?

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Marriage, Spring, Commitment

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• The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.

  Peter Drucker

  Mistake, Failure, Men

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• Ed Woolard, his mentor on the Apple board, pressed Jobs for more than two years to drop the interim in front of his CEO title. Not only was Jobs refusing to commit himself, but he was baffling everyone by taking only $1 a year in pay and no stock options. I make 50 cents for showing up, he liked to joke, and the other 50 cents is based on performance.

  Walter Isaacson

  Two, Apples, Years

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• How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That's a really really really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.

  Ben Horowitz

  Skills, Training, Mentor

  "HOROWITZ TELLS ALL: This Guy Just Raised A $1.5 Billion Fund". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Teacher cannot solve or heal all student stress. The teacher can be vigilant in trying to guide the child toward solutions;but the teacher's job in relation to this stress is ultimately to help the child learn to manage his or her own stress wisely. In accomplishing this, the teacher mentors higher academic learning by removing distracting stress, and teaches valuable life-survival skills.

  Michael Gurian

  Teacher, Children, Stress

  Michael Gurian (2010). “Boys and Girls Learn Differently! A Guide for Teachers and Parents: Revised 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.152, John Wiley & Sons

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• I look up to people that are much older than me, so being a mentor is a full time job.

  Nicole Trunfio

  People, Mentor, Looks

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