Jobs Quotes - Page 10

• Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure.

  Isabel Paterson

  Numbers, Saving, Want

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.192, Transaction Publishers

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• There is more blood than paint upon these hands. All those thousands of men killed. We thought it would be a little job, and so it might have been if it had begun in the right way.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Men, Blood

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• You are not going to 'go forth.' You are going to take that damn hat off and you're going to get a job.

  Bill Cosby

  Hats, Hats Off, Damn

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• It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the price of things is approximate to their real value. . . .

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Real, Makers, Vocation

  Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (2017). “Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art”, p.98, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Character

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• I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.

  Miguel Ferrer

  Thinking, Imagination, Actors

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am only an artist, my job is to make drawings not to make sense.

  William Kentridge

  Artist, Drawing, Make Sense

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• Music is my life. The things that people do don't seem interesting to me at all - going out to bars, carrying on, going to parties. What the hell do people do? Shop? Play golf? Have vacations? That doesn't seem interesting to me. To me, my job as a musician is to be a good receptor. A lot of music comes through me.

  John Frusciante

  Party, Golf, Vacation

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• Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'

  Dr. Seuss

  Sour, Can Do, Bits

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• The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a “dangerous enemy.

  Saul

  Enemy, Bait, Establishment

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• I've had plenty of jo-jobs. Nothing I'd call a career. Let me put it this way. I have an extensive collection of name tags and hair nets.

  Wayne Campbell

  Hair, Names, Careers

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• I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.

  Shirley Jackson

  Home, Giving, Proud

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• Managers, regardless of salary, should not be allowed to earn or use comp time. They are expected to work as many hours as needed to get the job done - especially at these salary levels.

  Jodi Rell

  Salary, Use, Done

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• Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they did for the company.

  Michael Bergdahl

  Rehabilitation, Consciousness, Ownership

  Michael Bergdahl (2004). “What I Learned From Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World”, p.87, John Wiley & Sons

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• This is something I love to do. I've never had any other job. I love singing and entertaining.

  Stephanie Mills

  Sight, Singing, Entertaining

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• The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching.

  Clarence Darrow

  Country, Healing, School

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• Maybe the raising of millions of dollars of funds for charitable projects has become 'a racket', and the longer they remain in the test-tube stage of development, the longer patronage and job payrollers remain in their soft berths.

  Roland V. Libonati

  Dark, Age, Dollars

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• ...Directors of a large food-manufacturing firm (:)...At one extreme (: one) said it was not his job to protect people from themselves; he was not forcing people to eat his products, and if they chose to do so at the risk of harming themselves, it was of their own free choice.

  John Yudkin

  Dark, People, Choices

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• Tens of thousands of South Florida jobs are dependent on the trade and commerce that our ports provide, and we have to make sure that we spend our security dollars wisely.

  Kendrick Meek

  Florida, Dollars, Port

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• I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.

  Carl Paladino

  New York, Responsibility, People

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• What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record.

  Peter Hain

  Judging, Records, Judge Me

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• We are a long way from getting back the jobs lost since President Bush took office.

  Pete Stark

  Long, Office, President

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• There are literally thousands of sites. As I was told in Iraq, information is coming in the entire time, but it is only now that the Iraq survey group has been put together that a dedicated team of people, which includes former UN inspectors, scientists and experts, will be able to go in and do the job properly.

  Tony Blair

  Team, Iraq, People

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• If we have no identity apart from our jobs, we are truly vulnerable.

  Dan Miller

  Identity, Vulnerable, Ifs

  Dan Miller (2008). “No More Dreaded Mondays: Ignite Your Passion - and Other Revolutionary Ways to Discover Your True Calling at Work”, p.48, Crown Business

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• They do a heck of a job with the PGA professionals around the country and taking care of the clubs and country clubs and everything else, but when it comes to understanding the guys out here on Tour and everything else, I don't think they get it because they're not out here on a regular basis.

  Billy Horschel

  Country, Golf, Thinking

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