Jobs Quotes - Page 26

• Normally, if you go through a game without attracting attention, you are doing a hell of a job.

  Jerry Kramer

  Games, Attention, Hell

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• An editor's job is to take something great and make it good.

  Kinky Friedman

  Editors

  Kinky Friedman (2003). “Meanwhile Back at the Ranch”, Pocket Star Books

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• It's just really making sure I am doing the best job I can do as a dad. I do think that is my No. 1 job.

  Tony Dungy

  Dad, Thinking, Best Job

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• Everything speeds up and it's blurry for a minute. But you've got to have a little patience sometimes to just find a soft spot. There's always a soft spot in the defense, and it's your job to find it.

  LaDainian Tomlinson

  Defense, Littles, Blurry

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• I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned.

  Hugh Shelton

  Duty

  "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.

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• A lot of people probably think I'm not athletic or don't even try to work out or whatever, but I do. Just because you're big doesn't mean you can't be an athlete. And just because you work out doesn't mean you're going to have a 12-pack. I work out to make sure I can do my job to the best of my ability. Other than that, I'm not going up there trying to be a fitness model.

  Prince Fielder

  Athlete, Mean, Thinking

  "The Prince of Arlington disrobes". Interview with Morty Ain, www.espn.com. June 26, 2014.

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• The legislative job of the President is especially important to the people who have no special representatives to plead their cause before Congressand that includes the great majority. I sometimes express it by saying the President is the only lobbyist that one hundred and fifty million Americans have. The other twenty million are able to employ people to represent themand thats all right, its the exercise of the right of petitionbut someone has to look after the interests of the one hundred and fifty million that are left.

  Harry S. Truman

  Exercise, People, Special

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• We begin life with loss. We are cast from the womb without an apartment, a charge plate, a job or a car. We are sucking, sobbing, clinging, helpless babies.

  Judith Viorst

  Baby, Loss, Car

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The way to tell if your job is done: if you're alive, you've got a job.

  Richard Bach

  Work, Done, Alive

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• Even if God exists, he's done such a terrible job, it's a wonder people don't get together and file a class action suit against him.

  Woody Allen

  God, Class, People

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• Relax yourself from one job by doing a different one.

  Ernest Renan

  Work, Relax, Different

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• Anyone who has ever experienced dehumanized life on welfare or any other confidence-shaking dependency knows that a paid job may be preferable to the dole, even when the handout is coming from a family member.

  Gloria Steinem

  Unemployment, May, Welfare

  Gloria Steinem (1986). “Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions”, New Amer Library

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• It were depression, too. They cut my wages down once at the foundry. They cut my wages down again. Then they cut my wages out, also the job.

  Langston Hughes

  Cutting, Unemployment, Wages

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Best of Simple”, p.15, Hill and Wang

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• One of my first jobs was on a lesbian cruise. I was the ship comedian for the Lesbian Love Boat.

  Margaret Cho

  Comedian, Ships, Firsts

  "Margaret Cho: I'm the One That I Want". TV Special, August 4, 2000.

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• What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it, and it works.

  William Faulkner

  Men, Signatures, Finals

  William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.135, Modern Library

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• My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.

  William Faulkner

  Morning, Writing, Quiet

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• I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Bible, Book, Religion

  "On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History".

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• I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Writing, Beer, Magazines

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• The best discussion of trouble in boardroom and business office is found in newspapers' own financial pages and speeches by journalists in management jobs.

  Russell Baker

  Office, Speech, Pages

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• Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.

  James Fallows

  Emphasis, Bureaucracy, Position

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• No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.

  James Fallows

  Real, World, Range

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• When our young people can find meaningful work, we all benefit. This youth jobs strategy would help connect youth with careers they can build on and equip them with the skills they need to thrive in today's global economy.

  Kathleen Wynne

  Meaningful, Careers, Skills

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• Whatever I was writing at the time, I knew there was no market for it and never would be, because there’s never a market for true art, so my main concern was always to have a job that didn’t require me to write or think.

  Nell Zink

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  "Purity of Essence: One Question for Nell Zink". Interview with Matthew Jakubowski, www.theparisreview.org. December 8, 2014.

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• I never expected, when I had a daughter, that one of my most important jobs would be to protect her childhood from becoming a marketers' land grab.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Daughter, Land, Childhood

  "The ghettoisation of pink: how it has cornered the little-girl market" by Peggy Orenstein, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!.

  Ken Spillman

  Real, Writing, Aunt

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