Jobs Quotes - Page 22

• No physical quantity can continue to change exponentially forever. Your job is delaying forever.

  Gordon Moore

  Forever, Quantity

  "Another decade for Moore's Law?". www.cnn.com. February 11, 2003.

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• As Deborah Rhode describes, “When 1,100 Michigan elementary students were asked to describe what life would be like if they were the opposite sex, over 40 percent of the girls saw advantages to being male; they would have better jobs, higher incomes, and more respect. Ninety-five percent of the boys saw no advantage to being female, and a substantial number thought suicide would be preferable.”

  Deborah Rhode

  Girl, Suicide, Sex

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• I make hats for lots of iconic people, and that makes my job very interesting.

  Philip Treacy

  People, Interesting, Hats

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• My wife, well she has extensive experience, because before becoming the first lady, she was the wife of the CEO of a large conglomerate. So I have very high hopes that she will carry out her job successfully as first lady of the Republic of Korea.

  Lee Myung-bak

  Korea, Wife, Republic

  "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, edition.cnn.com. April 18, 2008.

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• I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and helps one work more efficiently. I think we all need to strike a balance between work and relaxation. This can keep us energetic and help us do our job better.

  Xi Jinping

  Sports, Exercise, Swimming

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• If you're talking 100 years, there's no doubt in my mind that all jobs will be gone, including creative ones. And 100 years is not far in the future - some of our children will be alive in 100 years.

  Hod Lipson

  Children, Talking, Years

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• If you want to succeed at any job, make yourself invaluable. Go the extra mile; make them never be able to imagine what life without you there would be like.

  Ross Mathews

  Succeed, Would Be, Want

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• I love 'Scrubs.' It's the best day job in the world.

  Zach Braff

  Day Jobs, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I guess my tendency is to think essentially that the new wrinkles won't do the job if the old major idea didn't, and so you have to try something different. Then maybe they can all be combined in some coherent piece.

  Robert Nozick

  Thinking, Wrinkles, Ideas

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• I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.

  Nina Bawden

  War, Oxford, Auntie

  "Nina's wars" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.

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• Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because unions are disappearing and because of the global nature of the economy.

  Andy Stern

  Class, People, Unions

  Interview with Ezra Klein, voices.washingtonpost.com. April 14, 2010.

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• PayPal once rejected a candidate who aced all the engineering tests because for fun, the guy said that he liked to play hoops. That single sentence lost him the job.

  Max Levchin

  Fun, Engineering, Play

  Interview with Peter Thiel, gist.github.com. 2012.

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• I decided I was just going to sing the type of songs I gravitated toward and inspired me and moved me. I was going to let the people whose job it was to decide what places to put it, and let them do that. I'll stick to the singing part.

  David Nail

  Song, People, Singing

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• The next president needs to know foreign policy and not learn it on the job.

  Sam Brownback

  President, Needs, Next

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• Through your life, most people peel away the junk that's not useful, that's superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing at a time. One man at a time. One car. One house. One child. One job.

  Grace Slick

  Children, Men, People

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• I didn't have any great job prospects.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Great Job, Prospects

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• My job description is... being enthusiastic.

  Dhani Harrison

  Description, Enthusiastic

  "Dhani Harrison Talks New Band, Beatles Video Game" by Gary Graff, www.billboard.com. March 11, 2009.

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• I would never really analyse what I do. I leave that to other people - I'm not a critic. I just want to get on with whatever I have in hand, you know? Just try to make the best job of the available material.

  Dylan Moran

  Hands, Best Job, People

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• I'm even flattered! It's what success is like. I'm happy I seem unreal to them, it means I'm doing a good job.

  Valeria Lukyanova

  Mean, Good Job, Unreal

  "Real-Life Barbie Documentary: Valeria Lukyanova, ‘Living Barbie,’ Featured By Vice". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2013.

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• This is how they justify not wanting to strive for self-improvement. It's how they explain their continued inaction. It's just an excuse. There are plenty of video clips on the Internet showing what I really look like. Some people even spread rumors about me and retouch my pictures to hurt me. But I don't take them seriously. I'm even flattered! It's what success is like. I'm happy I seem unreal to them, it means I'm doing a good job.

  Valeria Lukyanova

  Hurt, Mean, Self

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• Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.

  David K. Shipler

  Eye, Hands, Leaving

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• As a leader it is your job to protect the missional integrity of the Jesus gathering to which you have been called. It is your responsibility to see to it that the church under your care continues as a gathering of people in process; a place where the curious, the unconvinced, the skeptical, the used-to-believe and the broken, as well as the committed, informed and sold-out come together around Peter's declaration that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.

  Andy Stanley

  Jesus, Integrity, Believe

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• In projecting the future, I think Apple did a good job of figuring out when the technology was ready to be consumer-grade.

  Andy Rubin

  Technology, Thinking, Apples

  "Android Chief Says Your Phone Should Not Be Your Assistant" by Ina Fried, allthingsd.com. October 19, 2011.

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• I don’t wanna have any other kind of job. I can’t work among people. I may as well try & make a career out of this. All my life my dream has been to be a big rock star - just may as well abuse it while you can.

  Kurt Cobain

  Dream, Stars, Rocks

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• I have held the following jobs: office temp, ticket seller in movie theatre, cook in restaurant, nanny, and phone installer at the Super Bowl in New Orleans.

  Adriana Trigiani

  New Orleans, Phones, Office

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