Jobs Quotes - Page 29

• I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

  Don DeLillo

  Writing, Fiction, Want

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don't like to have a situation placed over my head.

  Bill Murray

  Phones, Chance, Situation

  "Bill Murray: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. May 23, 2012.

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• If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

  Van Wyck Brooks

  Men, Evil, Giving

  Van Wyck Brooks (1958). “From a writer's notebook”

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• People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

  Armand Hammer

  Get Well, Hard Work, People

  Armand Hammer, Neil Lyndon (1988). “Hammer”, Perigee

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• Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, President, Looks

  "Bush admits mistakes, defends decisions". www.today.com. November 3, 2010.

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• My mother was a stay-at-home mom until I was about 11, when she got a job - and it was like a light came on inside her. It's not wrong to be passionate about your career. When you love what you do, you bring that stimulation back to your family.

  Allison Pearson

  Mom, Mother, Home

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• When white-collar people get jobs, they sell not only their time and energy, but their personalities as well. They sell by the week, or month, their smiles and their kindly gestures, and they must practice that prompt repression of resentment and aggression.

  C. Wright Mills

  Practice, White, People

  C. Wright Mills (2002). “White Collar: The American Middle Classes”, p.17, Oxford University Press

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• A newly elected representative quickly discovers that his job in government-aside from making new laws-is to act as a broker, middleman, special pleader and finagler.

  William Greider

  Government, Law, Special

  William Greider (2010). “Who Will Tell The People: The Betrayal Of American Democracy”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• In 1900 Americans on average lived for only 49 years and most working people died still on the job.

  William Greider

  Average, Years, People

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• Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Letting Go, Sacrifice, People

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• I think I'm realising more and more that I've got a job to do and I can't be doing the big nights out and working to my full potential the next day. I feel much better for it.

  Johnny Vegas

  Night, Thinking, Next Day

  "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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• When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is to discover the laws and apply them, not inquire into their provenance.

  Paul Davies

  Law, Limits, Students

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• I would say the most significant difference between modern-era receivers and previous receivers is the ones who were in my generation or earlier had to get a job after they got through playing. Today's player doesn't.

  Steve Largent

  Football, Player, Differences

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• He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts; when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver.

  Philip Yancey

  God, Giver, Stills

  Philip Yancey (1997). “Where Is God When It Hurts?”, p.98, Zondervan

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• The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five guys, and we polished the leather furniture.

  Gene Hackman

  Team, Night, Guy

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• I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job.

  Gene Hackman

  New York, Marine, Years

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• I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else.

  James Earl Jones

  Littles, Should, Theater

  "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought I was from Mississippi and uneducated. After Fargo, everybody's going to think I'm from Minnesota, pregnant, and have blonde hair. I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

  Frances McDormand

  Believe, Character, Simple

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• The poor, no less than the rich, stay tuned in to the Dream Machine in bad times as well as good....By 1995, millions of the poor were left without housing, medical care; jobs, or educational opportunity; six million children-one of every four kids under 6 years of age in America-were officially poor. Mired in Third-World conditions of poverty while video-bombarded with First-World dreams, rarely has a population suffered a greater gap between socially cultivated appetites and socially available opportunities.

  Charles Derber

  Dream, Children, Educational

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• Who are the happiest people on earth? A craftsman or artist whistling over a job well done. A little child building sand castles. A mother, after a busy day, bathing her baby. A doctor who has finished a difficult and dangerous operation, and saved a human life. Happiness lies in a constructive job well done. Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what happiness is.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Happiness, Mother, Baby

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• A new poll showed that 66% of Americans think President Bush is doing a poor job handling the war in Iraq and the remaining 34% think that Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs to church.

  Tina Fey

  War, Thinking, Iraq

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• I think of her every time I judge myself or someone else too harshly. How do we really know the worth of our work? It's not our job to judge the worth of what we offer the world, but to keep offering it regardless. You might never know the true worth of your efforts. Or it could simply be too soon to tell.

  Regina Brett

  Thinking, Offering, Judging

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• Never forget that every living thing has a particular and needed job to do in the universal Plan and Purpose.

  J. Boone

  Attitude, Purpose, Never Forget

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• What we really have to do is take a day and sit down and think. The world is not going to end or fall apart. Jobs won't be lost. Kids will not run crazy in one day. Lovers won't stop speaking to you. Husbands and wives are not going to disappear. Just take that one day and think. Don't read. Don't write. No television, no radio, no distractions. Sit down and think. . . . Go sit in a church, or in the park, or take a long walk and think. Call it a healing day.

  Maya Angelou

  Running, Husband, Crazy

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• If the security personnel do their job properly, they just might cause you to miss your plane, thereby possibly saving your life.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.46, Ballantine Books

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