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• Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.

  Akio Morita

  Jobs, Giving, Important

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 168), 1986.

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• I never expected, when I had a daughter, that one of my most important jobs would be to protect her childhood from becoming a marketers' land grab.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Daughter, Jobs, Land

  "The ghettoisation of pink: how it has cornered the little-girl market" by Peggy Orenstein, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.

  David K. Shipler

  Jobs, Eye, Hands

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• I think what you learn, working on a film or TV set, is how to tune certain things out. You've got 60-100 people swirling around you, each of them with a very important job to do.

  Wentworth Miller

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• Writers perform an extremely important role: they make others dream, those who are unable to dream for themselves. And everyone needs to dream. Could there be any more important job in life than that?

  Félix J. Palma

  Dream, Jobs, Important

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• This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Leadership, Jobs, People

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• You have the most important job of anyone today. Our kids need you to advocate for their futures.

  George Lucas

  Teacher, Jobs, Kids

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• During the sole argument we had when [Chelsea] was in high school, the subject of which I don't even remember, I looked at her and said, 'As long as you're in this house, being president is my second most important job'.

  William J. Clinton

  Fathers Day, Jobs, Dad

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• While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.

  Burton Richter

  Jobs, Ideas, Community

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• Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Responsibility, Top Management

  Peter Drucker, Harvard Business Review (2016). “The Peter F. Drucker Reader: Selected Articles from the Father of Modern Management Thinking”, p.8, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it to be noticed for the way you turn a phrase. You have a very important job--one of the most important. Your job is to let people know that everyone shares their feelings--and that these feelings bind us. Your job is a healing art, and like all healers, you have a responsibility. Let people know they are not alone. You must make people understand that we are all the same.

  Brian McDonald

  Art, Jobs, Responsibility

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• The one way the world hasn't changed: teaching is still the most important job.

  George Lucas

  Jobs, Teaching, Important

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• Producing quality compost is the most important job on the organic farm. A lot of the problems I see on farms I visit could be solved by making better compost.

  Eliot Coleman

  Jobs, Important, Quality

  Eliot Coleman (1995). “The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener, 2nd Edition”, p.99, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• The most important job you will ever have is your commitment to a promise you made to someone.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Jobs, Commitment

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• With what dread and apprehension we entrust important jobs into the hands of others. Imagine the love of a needless God who is willing to want our work.

  Calvin Miller

  Jobs, Hands, Important

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• I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.

  Matt Damon

  Jobs, Dad, Men

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

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• The most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to reach their dreams.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Dream, Jobs

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• We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.

  Hillary Clinton

  Positive, Country, Jobs

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• Dogs have important jobs, like barking when the doorbell rings, but cats have no function in a house whatsoever.

  W. Bruce Cameron

  Dog, Jobs, Cat

  W. Bruce Cameron (2011). “A Dog's Purpose: A novel for humans”, p.33, Pan Macmillan

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• The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, Humor, Political

  "The Gaffes of George W. Bush" by William Saletan and Avi Zenilman, www.slate.com. October 8, 2003.

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• Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.

  Tom Peters

  Jobs, Age, Important

  "The Brand Called You" by Tom Peters, www.fastcompany.com. August 31, 1997.

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• Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.

  Dennis Miller

  Jobs, Parenting, Important

  "Rants".

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• If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

  Vaclav Havel

  Jobs, Honesty, Hero

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• People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me.

  Adam Garcia

  Jobs, People, Important

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• The cultural insistence that parenting is the 'most important' job in the world is a smart way to satiate unappreciated women without doing a damn thing for them.

  Jessica Valenti

  Jobs, Smart, Important

  Jessica Valenti (2012). “Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth about Parenting and Happiness”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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