Mike Rowe Quotes

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• Some jobs pay better, some jobs smell better, and some jobs have no business being treated like careers. But work is never the enemy, regardless of the wage. Because somewhere between the job and the paycheck, there’s still a thing called opportunity, and that’s what people need to pursue.

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  Jobs, Opportunity, Careers

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• Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that’s consistent with those beliefs. Many people today resent the suggestion that they’re in charge of the way they feel.Those people are mistaken. That was a big lesson and I learned it several hundred times before it stuck. What you do, who you’re with, and how you feel about the world around you, is completely up to you.

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  Jobs, Knowing, People

  "The 'big lesson' Mike Rowe learned several hundred times" by Mike Rowe, www.cnn.com. October 18, 2014.

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• We are lending money we don't have to kids who can't pay it back to train them for jobs that no longer exist. That's nuts.

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  Money, Jobs, Kids

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• I think a trillion dollars of student loans and a massive skills gap are precisely what happens to a society that actively promotes one form of education as the best course for the most people. I think the stigmas and stereotypes that keep so many people from pursuing a truly useful skill, begin with the mistaken belief that a four-year degree is somehow superior to all other forms of learning.

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  Thinking, Years, Skills

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• Passion is too important to be without, but too fickle to be guided by. Which is why I’m more inclined to say, 'Don’t Follow Your Passion, But Always Bring it With You.'

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  Passion, Important, Fickle

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• Opportunity usually shows up in overalls and looking like work.

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  Inspiration, Opportunity, Overalls

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• The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another.

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  Wisdom, Jobs, Character

  "Good Magazine: America’s Dirtiest Interview". profoundlydisconnected.com. October 12, 2010.

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• The skills gap is a reflection of what we value. To close the gap, we need to change the way the country feels about work.

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  Country, Reflection, Skills

  Mike Rowe's Testimony Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, www.discovery.com. May 11, 2011.

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• Happiness comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that's consistent with those beliefs.

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  Knowing, Way, Belief

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• What you do, who you’re with, and how you feel about the world around you, is completely up to you.

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  Up To You, World, How You Feel

  "The 'big lesson' Mike Rowe learned several hundred times". www.cnn.com. October 18, 2014.

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• Anything worth doing hurts a little.

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  Hurt, Littles, Anything Worth Doing

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• I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as an nation, and it's a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and dirt is not the enemy.

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  Fun, Dirty, Hard Work

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• Dirt used to be a badge of honor. Dirt used to look like work. But we've scrubbed the dirt off the face of work and consequently we've created this suspicion of anything that's too dirty.

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  Dirty, Honor, Looks

  "Cleaning up 'Dirty Jobs'". Interview with Stephen Samaniego, money.cnn.com. May 18, 2011.

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• Not all knowledge comes from college.

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  College, Dirty Jobs

  "The Lead" with Jake Tapper, edition.cnn.com. April 30, 2014.

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• Why does a chicken coop only have two doors? ... Because if it had four doors, it would be a chicken sedan.

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  Doors, Two, Doe

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• Don't follow your passion, but always bring it with you.

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  Passion, Follow Your Passion

  "EXCLUSIVE: Mike Rowe Talks About Stupid Platitudes, Presidential Runs, And How Following Your Passion Is Dumb". Interview with Brandon Morse, www.redstate.com. June 10, 2016.

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• I wouldn't wish any specific thing for any specific person - it's none of my business. But the idea that a four-year degree is the only path to worthwhile knowledge is insane. It's insane.

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  Years, Ideas, Wish

  "Cleaning up 'Dirty Jobs'". Interview with Stephen Samaniego, money.cnn.com. May 18, 2011.

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• Short-cuts lead to long delays.

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  Cutting, Long, Delay

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• If we are lending money that ostensibly we don't have to kids who have no hope of making it back in order to train them for jobs that clearly don't exist, I might suggest that we've gone around the bend a little bit.

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  Jobs, Kids, Order

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• People with dirty jobs are happier than you think. As a group, they're the happiest people I know.

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  Jobs, Motivation, Dirty

  "Are People With 'Dirty Jobs' The Most Successful?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. November 1, 2013.

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• I'm looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past.

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  Grateful, Past, Feelings

  "A Turkey Without a Pardon: Bidding Farewell to Dirty Jobs" by Mike Rowe, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2012.

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• It’s about, when did it make sense to say one size fits everybody? It never ever ever made sense to do that, and yet we’re still selling education the same way we sold it when you and I were in high school.

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  School, Way, Size

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• The search for truth in cyberspace will take you through the wormhole, and there's nothing on the other side but pedants and nitpickers and bottomless ambiguity. If you're not careful, you'll spend all your time proving everything and understanding nothing.

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  Understanding, Pedants, Sides

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• My mothers dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it.

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  Mother, Dad, Broken

  "Cleaning up 'Dirty Jobs'". Interview with Stephen Samaniego, money.cnn.com. May 18, 2011.

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• People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they're either in the midst of or that they're the most proud of, but the truth is careers and lives are tapestries.

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  Careers, People, Proud

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