Jobs Quotes - Page 16

• I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.

  Sam Donaldson

  Inspirational, Likes, Like Me

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• Coaches should realize that the only way to conquer drudgery is by getting through it as efficiently as they can. A dull job slackly done becomes twice as dull, whereas a dull job performed as efficiently as possible becomes half as dull. Effort appears to be the main art of living.

  Harold Nicolson

  Sports, Art, Effort

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• Officiating is the only job in America that everybody knows how to do better than the guy who is doing it.

  Larry Goetz

  Sports, America, Guy

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• Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it. When I reach the soul of one of my boys with an idea, or ideal, or vision, then I have done my job as a coach.

  Amos Alonzo Stagg

  Sports, Winning, Boys

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• I observed that the successful farmer worked at his job. He would do his plowing, disking, harrowing, seeding, and harvesting in the proper season and at the proper time, while his neighbor was procrastinating, or off hunting and fishing while the work was still to be done. We must learn to set our priorities straight. No one can be successful in his line of work unless he works at it in the proper season and plays in the proper season.

  Nathan Eldon Tanner

  Successful, Hunting, Fishing

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• My job is to teach them to believe they could perform better than they realize. Great coaches teach athletes to go beyond the barriers.

  John Roderick

  Leadership, Sports, Believe

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• Inner peace is not found in things like baseball and world championships. As long as I feel I've done the best job I possibly could, I'm satisfied.

  Sparky Anderson

  Leadership, Sports, Baseball

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• Magic is something that seems like it goes against how the world works and its us magicians job to be doing that.

  Jerry Andrus

  Magic, World, Seems

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• R.I.P. Steve Jobs. I bet you're busy right now revolutionizing and redesigning the afterlife for all of us to enjoy when our time comes

  Joe Satriani

  Afterlife, Busy, Enjoy

  FaceBook post by Joe Satriani from Oct 06, 2011

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• Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Arguing, Depends

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• The husband who 'serves' his wife by continually yielding to her desires or her wishes is in fact asking her to do his job for him. He's ignoring his responsibility to lead.

  Bob Lepine

  Husband, Responsibility, Wife

  Bob Lepine (2003). “The Christian Husband: God's Vision for Loving and Caring for Your Wife”, Gospel Light Pubns

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• If start-up activity is the true engine of job creation in America, one thing is clear: our current educational system is acting as the brakes. Simply put, from kindergarten through undergraduate and grad school, you learn very few skills or attitudes that would ever help you start a business.

  Michael Ellsberg

  Attitude, Educational, School

  "Will Dropouts Save America?". www.nytimes.com. October 22, 2011.

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• I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That’s what makes me interested in them, that they didn’t present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

  Imelda Staunton

  Idols, Actresses, Adore

  "Vera Drake: Imelda Staunton about Mike Leigh". Interview with Emanuel Levy, emanuellevy.com. February 9, 2005.

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• If you ask for good schools, you aren't likely to get them. If you ask for jobs or economic investment, you won't get that either. But what we have learned, is that the one thing that poor folks of color can ask for and get are Police & Prisons.

  Michelle Alexander

  School, Color, Police

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• My newspaper job … is my identity.

  Roger Ebert

  Identity, Newspapers

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• I'm just going to go out there knowing my teammates are depending on me to get the job done. I've got to go out and get it done, no letting down.

  Chris Brown

  Knowing, Done, Teammate

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• President Bush's approval ratings have taken somewhat of a dive. A senior slump, if you will. Leading President Bush to one conclusion: He is the only one who realizes what a great job he's being doing.

  Jon Stewart

  Senior, Taken, Approval Rating

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• Michael Brown, the director of FEMA, was nominated by President Bush in 2003 and plans to start the job any day now. ... Prior to heading FEMA, Brown spent the 90's as a commissioner -- this is true -- of the International Arabian Horse Association. I guess he stands out because most Bush appointees are beholden to Arabian people.

  Jon Stewart

  Horse, People, President

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• There are a lot of bitter people out there who have got jobs that they hate and the key to life for me is doing something you love doing.

  Danny Dyer

  Hate, Keys, People

  "Interview: Danny Dyer and Tamer Hassan". Interview with Samantha Peliza, uk.askmen.com.

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• There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring.

  Johnny Vegas

  Couple, Phones, Three

  "Johnny Vegas: Boozy comic sheds six stone as he tries to clean up his act" by Beth Neil, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2009.

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• Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Struggle, Thinking, Issues

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We must develop a federal program of public works, retraining, and jobs for all - so that none, white or black, will have cause to feel threatened
  . . . There is nothing except shortsightedness to prevent us from guaranteeing an annual minimum and livable income for every American family.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, Black, Income

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• The only way we can win is if we leave before the job is...done.

  George W. Bush

  Winning, Done, Way

  George W. Bush's Remarks at Colorado Victory 2006 Rally, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. November 4, 2006.

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• I've got God's shoulder to cry on. And I cry a lot. I do a lot of crying in this job. I'll bet I've shed more tears than you can count, as president.

  George W. Bush

  Tears, President, Cry

  "Dead Certain". Book by Robert Draper, September 4, 2007.

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• Trying to stop suiciders -- which we're doing a pretty good job of on occasion -- is difficult to do. And what the Iraqis are going to have to eventually do is convince those who are conducting suiciders who are not inspired by Al Qaeda, for example, to realize there's a peaceful tomorrow.

  George W. Bush

  Peaceful, Trying, Example

  Press Conference with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel, www.washingtonpost.com. May 23, 2006.

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