Jobs Quotes - Page 27

• First of all, from a spiritual perspective, I don't think anyone needs to be apologetic about being successful or having money. The more successful you are, the more job opportunities you create for other people.

  Shilpa Shetty

  Spiritual, Successful, Opportunity

  "Shilpa Shetty: 'My spiritual approach to finance'". Interview with Mark Anstead, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 14, 2008.

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• Have a purpose to your life: Purpose does not mean having a job...You can have a job and still be unfulfilled.

  Maya Angelou

  Mean, Doe, Purpose

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• The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Engineering, Moral Leadership, Ideas

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• Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Letting Go, Mistake, Mean

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• You have the dreams that you want, and then you have to do other jobs until you can get to that dream.

  Channing Tatum

  Dream, Want

  "Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey, Matt Bomer and Joe Manganiello Talk MAGIC MIKE, Male vs. Female Strip Clubs, Dance Numbers and More". Interview, collider.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Rich white Protestant men have held on to some measure of power in America almost solely by getting women, blacks, and other disadvantaged groups to wear crippling foot fashions. This keeps them too busy with corns and bunions to compete in the job market.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fashion, Power, Men

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.234, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

  George Will

  Leadership, Country, Two

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• My bike is my gym, my wheelchair and my church all in one. I'd like to ride my bike all day long but I've got this thing called a job that keeps getting in the way.

  Bill Walton

  Long, Church, Way

  "Bill Walton Is Talkin' With TJ". Interview with Tom James, www.nba.com.

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• The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.

  Andre Gide

  People

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.450, Vintage

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• The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Age, Architecture, Difficult

  Nikki Giovanni (1994). “Racism 101”, William Morrow & Co

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• The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis.

  Thomas Szasz

  Skills, Needs, Poor

  Thomas Szasz (1988). “The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Theory and Method of Autonomous Psychotherapy”, p.28, Syracuse University Press

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• It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.

  Stephen King

  Language, Bones

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.487, Anchor

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• I've got a lot to do, and I hope that by the end of it all, people will say that Dee Snider was an entertainer, and he did his job well.

  Dee Snider

  People, Ends, Wells

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications. All strong interests easily become impersonal, the love of a good job well done. There is a sense of harmony about such an accomplishment, the Peace brought by something worth while. Such personal gratification arises from aim beyond personality.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Strong, Men, Civilization

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• I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.

  Ronald Reagan

  Morning, Office, Oval

  Ronald Reagan (1990). “An American Life”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

  Herbert Hoover

  Children, Growing Up, Boys

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• It's an acting job - acting natural.

  Alistair Cooke

  Acting, Natural

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• I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.

  Ted Allen

  Teaching, Wine, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Mother, Father

  1968 The Naked Civil Servant, ch.1.

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• Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.

  Germaine Greer

  Marriage

  Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Firsts, First Time, Knows

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• I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.

  Paul Walker

  Dad, Focus, Actors

  FaceBook post by Paul Walker from Mar 02, 2012

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• I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go wherever she has a job. All basements look the same, so I can write from whatever basement I happen to be living in.

  John Green

  Art, Writing, Museums

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• I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement.

  Mark Cuban

  Cutting, Government, Effort

  "MARK CUBAN: The Most Patriotic Thing You Can Do". www.businessinsider.com. September 19, 2011.

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• The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.

  Benjamin Spock

  Children, Parenting, Long

  Benjamin Spock, Robert Needlman (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 9th Edition”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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