Jobs Quotes - Page 17

• Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.

  Paula Abdul

  Song, Taken, Writing

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• I'm off to save the universe again. It's a tough job but someone has to do it, and I'm glad it's me.

  Lexa Doig

  Sea, Tough, Glad

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• I want to get out in the community and make sure everyone knows I'm not some renegade driver that's out there and irresponsible and reckless. I really think this is just a one-time thing. You live and learn. If you do the crime, you do the time, so to speak. With that said, I got a lot going for me. I got a great job, a great career, a great family. This is just a little bump in the road. My spirit's not broke. I'm not down and out by any means.

  Jayson Werth

  Mean, Thinking, Careers

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• The obvious liberal rejoinders come to mind: What about the child whose home is hit by a bomb? Did she have some bomb-shaped thoughtform that brought ruin down on her head? And did my [fired white-collar workers] boot-camp mates cause the layoffs that drove them out of their jobs by "vibrating" at a layoff-related frequency? It seems inexcusably cruel to tell people who have reach some kind of personal nadir that their probem is entirely of their own making.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Children, Work, Home

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• All the big ideas for getting us onto a lower carbon trajectory involve a lot of people doing a lot of work, and that's been missing from the conversation. This is a great time to go to the next step and ask, well, who's going to do the work? Who's going to invest in the new technologies? What are ways to get communities wealth, improved health, and expanded job opportunities out of this improved transition?

  Van Jones

  Work, Technology, Opportunity

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• So much of what happened to me is good fortune. But I would say: Try to get a job that gives you some time; get your sleep and a little bit of food; and work as much as you can. There's so much enjoyment in doing what you love. Maybe this will open doors, and you'll find a way to do what you love.

  David Lynch

  Work, Sleep, Doors

  David Lynch (2007). “Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.163, Penguin

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• Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Love, Age, Dots

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• Baseball is just my job.

  Barry Bonds

  Baseball, Ties

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

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• I hope there will be some good news and some good profits, and people will realize we have a lot of outstanding executives, and a lot of companies that are doing a good job, and those are good companies to invest in.

  Don Nickles

  People, News, Realizing

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• I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.

  Vivian Campbell

  Real, School, Guitar

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• I couldn't see well enough to play (baseball) when I was a boy, so they gave me a special job - they made me an umpire.

  Harry S. Truman

  Baseball, Boys, Umpires

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• Additionally, this tax forces family businesses to invest in Uncle Sam rather than the economy. When families are forced to repurchase businesses because of the death tax, that means less money is being invested in new jobs and capital expansion.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Uncles, Mean, New Job

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• We must do worldly jobs, but if we do them with sanctified minds, they become offerings to God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Recovery, Independence, New Job

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• Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect. Supineness and dogmatism take the place of inquiry. A problem can no longer be pursued to its edges. Fear stalks the classroom. The teacher is no longer a stimulant to adventurous thinking; she becomes instead a pipe line for safe and sound information. A deadening dogma takes the place of free inquiry. Instruction tends to become sterile; pursuit of knowledge is discouraged; discussion often leaves off where it should begin.

  William O. Douglas

  Teacher, Fear, Exercise

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• Coaches should realize that the only way to conquer drudgery is by getting through it as efficiently as they can. A dull job slackly done becomes twice as dull, whereas a dull job performed as efficiently as possible becomes half as dull. Effort appears to be the main art of living.

  Harold Nicolson

  Sports, Art, Effort

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• I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Baseball, Player, Thinking

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• During job interviews, when they ask: 'What is your worst quality?', I always say: 'Flatulence'. That way I get my own office.

  Dan Thompson

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.

  Kate Reardon

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.

  Sam Donaldson

  Inspirational, Likes, Like Me

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• Trust God for the impossible-miracles are His department. Our job is to do our best, letting the Lord do the rest.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Miracle

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• It's easy to enjoy your job and enjoy other people when things are going good. When you're faced with adversity is when the character of men is measured. There's a Mennonite proverb, 'Man, like a tree, is measured best when cut down.'

  Dan Quisenberry

  Sports, Character, Adversity

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• God's job ain't to make our lives easier, it's to make us better souls by the lessons He gives us.

  Susan Crandall

  Giving, Soul, Lessons

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• All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.

  George Gershwin

  Past, Men, Feeling Alone

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• Never send a human to do a machine's job.

  Hugo Weaving

  Inspiration, Machines, Humans

  "Fictional character: Agent Smith". "The Matrix", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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