Bad Jobs Quotes

• Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar.

  Drew Carey

  Funny, Sarcastic, Jobs

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• There's an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.

  Peter Drucker

  Retirement, Jobs, Business

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• We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

  Julian Baggini

  Jobs, Opportunity, Priorities

  "An unequivocal 'no'" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2010.

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• Nobody goes to work to do a bad job.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Jobs

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• Every time you say yes to something you don’t want to do, this will happen: you will resent people, you will do a bad job, you will have less energy for the things you were doing a good job on, you will make less money, and yet another small percentage of your life will be used up, burned up, a smoke signal to the future saying, “I did it again.

  James Altucher

  Jobs, People, Energy

  FaceBook post by James Altucher from Nov 20, 2013

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• Any job that posts a price list for your body parts is a bad job.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Jobs, Body, Lists

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• It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.... People who have good jobs are happy, rich, and well dressed. People who have bad jobs are unhappy, poor and use meat extenders. Those who seek dignity in the type of work that compels them to help hamburgers are certain to be disappointed.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Jobs, People, Unhappy

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.23, Vintage

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• My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that he isn't worth discussing.

  Isaac Asimov

  Jobs, If There Is A God, Feelings

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• A lot of people profess to have power and it is very minor astral power. They do get power over you, not because they have any intrinsic power, but because your fear immobilizes you and makes you do a bad job.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, People, Over You

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• I had a lot of bad jobs but the one big internship I had is I interned for 'SNL' when I was 21 years old and that was the joke. You intern there and you think man, I'm going to be with the writers and the great comedians. Then you're getting everybody sandwiches and then the doors close and then all the great creatives are doing the work.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Jobs, Men, Thinking

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

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• Your children are not little mirrors reflecting back the good or bad job you've done.

  Harriet Lerner

  Jobs, Children, Reflecting Back

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• D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Jobs, Children, Struggle

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.2171, eBookIt.com

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• "I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

  Charles Dickens

  Jobs, Character, Air

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.333

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• We spend a lot of time and effort trying to figure out who's going to be a good NFL quarterback, and we do a very bad job of it. We don't really know. And we also spend a lot of time trying to figure out who will be a good teacher, and we're really bad at that too. We don't know if someone is going to be a good teacher when they start teaching. So what should we do in those situations in which predictions are useless?

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

  Goodreads interview, www.goodreads.com. December, 2008.

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• I haven't had any bad jobs. I was a hairdresser before and that's it. I still cut my family and mates' hair when they want a trim. If I go up to Scotland to see my mum, I know she'll say, 'Bring your scissors!'

  Sharleen Spiteri

  Jobs, Cutting, Scotland

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I had some bad jobs when I was young. Writing is not one of them. If you're fortunate enough to reach my age, to still be writing, you have to be grateful, and I am. I've been lucky. For many years, all I've done is writing, and it's all I've ever wanted to do.

  Richard Flanagan

  Jobs, Grateful, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.

  Marion Cotillard

  Jobs, Able, Scared

  "Marion Cotillard Interview PUBLIC ENEMIES". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 2, 2009.

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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

  Jobs, Men, Evil

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

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• Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene

  Robert Jordan

  Jobs, Men, Advice

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• There were a zillion bad jobs. That doesn't exist any more. I mean, I could wake up one afternoon with zero money and know that by the end of the day, I would have money.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Jobs, Zero, Mean

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• Referrals are very powerful. When I refer you, I give a little bit of my reputation away. If you do a good job, my friend that hired you is pleased. But if you do a bad job, that reflects badly on me. People forget that.

  Ivan Misner

  Jobs, Powerful, People

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• I don't mind if someone thinks I'm a sell out. I go to bed happy knowing I do what I do and I'm not doing anything for reasons of money, and if I were trying to pick up chicks, I'm doing a horrible job. And if I wanted to drive awesome cars, I'm doing a really bad job there too.

  Patrick Stump

  Jobs, Thinking, Knowing

  AbsolutePunk.net Intreview, October 6, 2008.

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• I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog [Isaboo, a pit bull] some days because I’m just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I’m doing.

  Rachael Ray

  Mom, Dog, Jobs

  "COVER STORY: Rachael Ray's Recipe for Marriage". Interview with Michelle Tauber, Liza Hamm, people.com. May 2, 2007.

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• We do an epically bad job of acknowledging one another's work and checking our sources.

  John Green

  Jobs, Source

  "'Fault in Our Stars' author: Oops, I didn't write that quote" By Henry Hanks, www.cnn.com. February 18, 2015.

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• Just because it's a bad job doesn't mean I need to do it badly.

  Hugh Laurie

  Jobs, Mean, Needs

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