Jobs Quotes - Page 15

• If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Attitude, Work, Should

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• Games are among the most interesting creations of the human mind, and the analysis of their structure is full of adventure and surprises. Unfortunately there is never a lack of mathematicians for the job of transforming delectable ingredients into a dish that tastes like a damp blanket.

  James R Newman

  Adventure, Math, Games

  James R. Newman (1956). “The World of Mathematics”, p.2414, Рипол Классик

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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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• Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Finding The One, Self, Training

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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 love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Needs

  "Miss Millennium: Beyoncé". Interview with Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. January 10, 2013.

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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 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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• Our economy is creating jobs and giving businesses the conditions they need to invest and succeed.

  Dennis Hastert

  Creating, Giving, Needs

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• 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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• As an actor ... at some point you've got to forget that the crew's there in order to do your job.

  Cliff Curtis

  Order, Actors, Forget

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

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• So worried was I that people would see through the painting into my soul - and guess at secret Alison stuff - that I scraped the paint off the canvas. It was too risky to expose what everyone hides...And yet isn't that the job of the artist? Next step is to take the risk - to work more deeply. To expose that which cannot be expressed any other way. That is art. Scary and exciting.

  Allison Mackie

  Art, Expression, People

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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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• ...It would be possible to make much more progress than has been made if the NCI knew its job better, knew how to make discoveries...The NCI really does not know how to make discoveries....So long as the NCI is not willing to follow up ideas that seem good to people who have had experience making discoveries, the work of the NCI is going to be pedestrian.

  Linus Pauling

  Dark, Discovery, Ideas

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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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• 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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• I mean there are tons of reasons. Well first of all. I write my own record. I don't take other people's materials. And I have a job which is being Willa Ford on top of getting back in the studio and writing and recording.

  Willa Ford

  Writing, Mean, People

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• My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.

  Stephanie Tubbs Jones

  Friendship, Important, Purpose

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• To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

  Herbert Hoover

  Fall, Science, Comfort

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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