Day Jobs Quotes - Page 2

• Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Jobs, Writing

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• Life is so very short. Do now what you yearn to do in your life. You do not have to 'quit your day job' in order to do this. You may do so if you choose to, but you do not have to. Many people advance a vocation while holding down their 'regular job.' You can, too. Then ease into your vocation and turn it into your 'regular job.' But you must give energy to your vocation starting today. I mean, today.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Jobs, Mean, Order

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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

  Jobs, Couple, Silly

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• I consider acting a day job - it's not my dream; it's not my be-all, end-all.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Dream, Jobs, Acting

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• As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.

  Black Francis

  Jobs, Real, Artist

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• I couldn't imagine a more unreliable, more unprofitable way to make a living than writing. My advice? Show up, do the best you can. Keep your day job. If you get a lucky break, don't f*** up. It was helpful to be older because I had made all the really stupid mistakes already.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Jobs, Mistake, Stupid

  Interview with Karen Brown, blog.etsy.com. May 13, 2013.

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• I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became a geography teacher so that I could get free field trips into the wilderness to paint.

  Robert Bateman

  Teacher, Art, Jobs

  "Robert Batemen: On home life, health, helping wildlife and his art muse". Interview with Carol Crenna, carolcrenna.wordpress.com. December 15, 2012.

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• When you're single again, at the beginning you're very optimistic and you say, 'I want to meet someone who's really smart, really sweet, really sensitive.' And six months later you're like, 'Lord, any mammal with a day job.

  Carol Leifer

  Sweet, Jobs, Smart

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• If writing is your passion, write and don't let anyone else convince you otherwise. You don't need to quit your day job to do it. Create a realistic schedule and stick with it.

  Bindu

  Jobs, Writing, Passion

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• People are irrational. What I want to do is let's take the irrational aspects out of it and let's just break this down. And you and I, let's go and see if we can't master this thing, a few steps at a time without giving up your day job, without having to give up your whole life.

  Tony Robbins

  Jobs, Giving Up, People

  "Interview with Tony Robbins on His New Book, ‘Money: Master the Game’". Interview With Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2014.

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• I'm in a rock band - I don't have a day job! I am spoiled... a lot.

  Stone Gossard

  Jobs, Rocks, Band

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• Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Photography, Jobs, Artist

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.nbcnews.com. March 12, 2010.

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• When I received my first paycheck from my now known day job, I spent it on a period Craftsman chair and a Frank Lloyd Wright-wannabe lamp. With my second paycheck, I bought a stereo.

  Brad Pitt

  Jobs, Firsts, Lamps

  "Brad Pitt Discusses His Furniture Collection in an Exclusive Interview". Interview with Stephen Wallis, www.architecturaldigest.com. November 30, 2012.

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• I like acting and being a musician. It's like comparing apples and oranges. But I really like my day job. I've always played music since I was 12, and I guess I always will.

  Dennis Quaid

  Jobs, Apples, Orange

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• My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.

  Amy Tan

  Jobs, Taken, Doctors

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• Real estate is my life. It is my day job, if you will. But it consumes my nights and weekends, too.

  Ivanka Trump

  Jobs, Real, Weekend

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• Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.

  Harlan Ellison

  Jobs, Writing, Please

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• I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full time. I just liked writing more…plus, I knew even then that as a full-time writer, I'd get plenty of chances to do business-type stuff, while as an accountant, I probably wouldn't get a lot of opportunities to write about dragons.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Jobs, Business, Writing

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• I'm almost thirty and my day job is folding shirts at the Gap. Have you seen my room? I'm not messy. I'm rebelling against folding.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Jobs, Gaps, Rooms

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.25, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.

  Bill Rancic

  Jobs, Business, Entrepreneur

  Bill Rancic (2009). “You're Hired: How to Succeed in Business and Life from the Winner of The Apprentice”, p.16, Zondervan

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• I have a day job, which means my family isnt dependent on the writing income. So if I have an idea I like, I write it.

  Jim C. Hines

  Jobs, Writing, Mean

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• I've never had a day job. I've been very fortunate

  Shane West

  Jobs, Fortunate

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• They say hard work pays off
  Well tell the Based God don't quit his day job

  Capital STEEZ

  Jobs, Hard Work, Hip Hop

  "Song: "Survival Tactics"". 1999.

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• Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with experience in the real world, not experience in the phony world of politics.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Jobs, Real

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• I was frustrated because I couldn't get going, as I was trying to figure out how to make films. I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films.

  David O. Russell

  Jobs, Class, Office

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