Jobs Quotes - Page 28

• A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Children, Inexperience, Overcoming

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. Exploiting the apocalypse, selling the holocaust, is a pornography. For the ultimate selling job on ultimate violence one must read those works of fiction issued by our government as manuals of civil defense, in which you learn that there's nothing to be afraid of if you've stockpiled lots of dried fruit.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Business, Acceptance, Government

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• No matter what your work today, if it is worth while at all - time to plan it out, time to do it well, and time to finish it, is your day's greatest gift and your greatest job.

  George Matthew Adams

  Matter, Today, All Time

  George Matthew Adams (2016). “You Can: A Collection of Brief Talks on the Most Important Topic in the World-Your Success”, p.24, Ravenio Books

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• After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

  Lynne Truss

  Editing, Years, Editors

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• The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.

  Ted Koppel

  Responsibility, Journalist, Feels

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• Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.

  Nigel Rees

  Doe, Workplace, Ends

  "In other words ..." by Nigel Rees, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2006.

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• The legacy of Steve Jobs and the strength of Steve Jobs is that he established a company that's clearly firing on all cylinders and clicking very well.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Legacy, Cylinders, Wells

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

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• My feeling about executive bonuses is that any candidate for a chief executive job who even raises the issue of bonuses should be dismissed out of hand.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Hands, Issues, Feelings

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• I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress.

  Barbra Streisand

  Actresses

  "Barbra Streisand: I refused Marlon Brando's advances" by Katie McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. December 14, 2012.

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• Did Bill Clinton actually think that he could get blow jobs from a Jewish woman and there would be no consequences?

  Larry David

  Blow, Thinking, Would Be

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• I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Real, College, Thinking

  "Mary-Chapin Carpenter: Country's Unlikely Star" by Eliza Wing, www.rollingstone.com. March 21, 1991.

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• So I came home and I had a resume and everything, but the only job experience I had was just playing in bars and clubs on my summers off. So, I was temping and stuff during the day and playing music at night.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Summer, Home, Night

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• You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Labels, Stylist, Stuff

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• I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all times as if she had just read one of my books.

  Florence King

  Book, Expression, Looks

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• Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.

  Marvin Olasky

  Feminist, Athletic, Population

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• Change is healthy and useful. It has to be fought for most of the time. It's not inevitable. It takes real leadership and real effort. But I think it's really important not to take yourself too seriously. Dwight Eisenhower used to have a rule that you should always take your job seriously but not yourself.

  Newt Gingrich

  Change, Real, Thinking

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• My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.

  Shelley Berman

  Night, Chicago, Clubs

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

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• I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.

  Harry Bridges

  Right Time, Wanted, Happened

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• It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.

  Peter O'Toole

  Who I Am, Earth

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• Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Careers, Toilets, Wells

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• When it comes to the acting stuff, I like to show up for a couple days and kind of be outrageous and silly, and go back to my day job.

  Josh Groban

  Couple, Silly, Stuff I Like

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• I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Nice, Want, Pilots

  "Felix Baumgartner 'recuperating' after surviving jump from the edge of space" by Matt Williams, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2012.

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• One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Flower, Cutting, Magic

  "The best things in life are..." by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2007.

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• A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Giving, Vision, World

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• Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Home, Earth, Four

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