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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• Nobody goes to work to do a bad job.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Jobs

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

  Peter Drucker

  Retirement, Jobs, Business

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

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Jobs, Body, Lists

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun.

  James McAvoy

  Jobs, Fun, Forever

  "James McAvoy: I've done X Men... now for a few Zs". Interview with Rick Fulton, www.dailyrecord.co.uk. March 23, 2011.

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• You were right, Hale. It was a bad job. It was a bad call. You were right to leave." "Kat..." Hale tried to reach for her, but even in the sand, Kat was quick and sure on her feet, and she moved nimbly away, leaving Hale with nothing but a fistful of salty air. "Thanks for coming back and helping me find her and all, but..." She looked at Gabrielle, who stood leaning against Simon, still bruised and almost broken. " I think I've got to take it from here.".... She was sure right up until the point when Hale said, "No.

  Ally Carter

  Jobs, Thinking, Air

  Ally Carter (2012). “Heist Society: Uncommon Criminals”, p.103, Hachette UK

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• You know in politics you are dealing in the realm of choices. You don't always have clear-cut decision between a thoroughly principled position and a thoroughly unprincipled one. You're making snap decisions with paucity of information, generally trying to do the best that you can, but you will make errors, and sometimes it's a decision between a bad and a worse alternative. It has to be done, because we need to order our society, and of politics it can literally be said: Bad job, but someone's got to do it.

  Peter Costello

  Jobs, Cutting, Errors

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• I do not hold that because the author did a bad job of writing the player need trump it with the same kind of acting. When I go into a picture I have only one character to look after. If the author didn't do him justice, I try to add whatever the creator of the part overlooked.

  William Powell

  Jobs, Writing, Character

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

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