Jobs Quotes - Page 20

• There is nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future goal, you stop paying attention the the job at hand, miss opportunities that might arise, and stay fixedly on one path, even when a better, newer course might have opened up.

  Indra Nooyi

  Eye, Opportunity, Hands

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• America needs jobs and opportunity, not make-work and handouts.

  Ronald Reagan

  Opportunity, America, Needs

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Some people think they're depressed and they go to the doctor and want pills. And you just think: 'You hate where you live, you've lost your job, your boyfriend has dumped you, could all this be why you're depressed?'

  Graham Norton

  Hate, Thinking, Doctors

  "The name's Norton. Graham Norton" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2007.

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• Forty freaked me out. I didn't see it coming. My life was in a state of chaos - I was moving jobs and moving house - and it just hit me like a ton of bricks.

  Graham Norton

  Moving, House, Bricks

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• We kind of knew what they were doing. They brought pressure on the side with (Troy) Polamalu. The
  way that they played the coverage was a little unique. Again, I’ve just got to do a better job than that.

  Mike Tomlin

  Unique, Littles, Way

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• We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Doe, Form, Blinded

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• At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.

  Joseph Kanon

  New York, Firsts, England

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• My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.

  Beau Willimon

  Men, Campaigns, Totems

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• I don't want to be a celebrity athlete. When you are, there's this pressure on you. It's like you have this halo over your head and have to walk on eggshells. That's not for me. All that glamour builds up a false sense of ego. It's not needed. I'm already happy with who I am. My job is just to get on the podium.

  Shani Davis

  Athlete, Who I Am, Ego

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• A goalies job is to stop pucks,.... Well yeah, thats part of it, but you know what else is?... Youre trying to deliver a message to your team that things are OK back here. This end of the ice is pretty well cared for. You take it now and go. Go! Feel the freedom in order to feel that dynamic, creative, offensive player and go out and score....That was my job. And it was to try to deliver a feeling.

  Ken Dryden

  Team, Player, Order

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• Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fear, Government, Social

  Kurt Vonnegut, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur Charles Clarke (1990). “Out of this world: science fiction and fantasy”

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• It's my job as governor to set a vision.

  Mary Fallin

  Vision, Governors

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• I think it is inflationary. I think it actually is counterproductive in many ways. You end up costing jobs from people who are at the bottom rung of the economic ladder.

  Paul Ryan

  Thinking, People, Political

  "Rep. Paul Ryan: “He underplayed the enormity of the task before us, which is to confront a debt crisis”, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I first came into the labor force in 1941 when the minimum wage was 40 cents an hour, and that was my first job. And each time that we've tried to boost the lower level of salary for the most underpaid workers, there have been predictions of catastrophe. But each time, in [m]y opinion, the change has helped our Nation and its economic strength.

  Jimmy Carter

  Labor Force, Salary, Minimum Wage

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• For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks overnight was nothing less than fair game for everybody to nail. Men or women, anybody bent over had no way of knowing who was doing the ram job, and this was the real reason you never wanted to end up here unless you had a family member or a friend who'd stand with you the whole time. To protect you. To watch your ass, for real.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Men, Games

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Jobs did not know that Sculley had told Eisenstat he wanted to quit, but by then it didn't matter. Overnight, he had changed his mind and decided to stay. Despite the blowup the day before, he was still eager for Jobs to like him. So he agreed to meet the next afternoon.

  Walter Isaacson

  Mind, Afternoon, Matter

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Artist, Thinking, Transition

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• I'm done with my job. It was my job to be the advocate and spokesman for the President of the United States.

  Scott McClellan

  President, United States, Done

  "McClellan: I Became What I Wanted to Change". Interview with Martha Raddatz, abcnews.go.com. May 29, 2008.

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• If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director.

  Eli Roth

  Home, Blood, Fake

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

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• We must honor our dragons, encourage them to be worthy destroyers, expect they'll strive to cut us down. It is their duty to ridicule us, it is their job to demean us, to force us if they can to stop being different! And when we walk our way no matter their fire and their fury, our dragons shrug when we're out of sight, return to their card-games philosophical: 'Ah well, we can't toast 'em all...'

  Richard Bach

  Philosophical, Cutting, Dragons

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• If someone is cynical and doesn't vote and ends up with a crummy job in a crummy country with a decimated environment, they only have themselves to blame.

  Moby

  Country, Cynical, Blame

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• Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

  Louise Penny

  Heart

  Louise Penny (2014). “The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.277, Macmillan

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• Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Keys, Income, Capacity

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• People leave because of their own overts and withholds. That is the factual fact and the hard-bound rule. A man with a clean heart can’t be hurt. The man or woman who must must must become a victim and depart is departing because of his or her own overts and withholds. It doesn’t matter whether the person is departing from a town or a job or a session. The cause is the same.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Hurt, Heart, Men

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• Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation that NASA's budget is too small for the job.

  Paul Davies

  Orbit, Phases, Earth

  "Fly me to Mars. One-way" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2009.

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