Jobs Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• 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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• I believe the leader's ultimate job is to spread hope.

  Bob Galvin

  Believe, Leader, Spread

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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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• The death tax destroys family businesses and stifles investment that leads to increases in jobs and personal income. As a result, 70 percent of family-owned businesses are not passed on to the next generation and 87 percent do not make it to the third generation.

  Jennifer Dunn

  Income, Generations, Next

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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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• Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.

  Isabel Allende

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  "This much I know" by Lawrence Donegan, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2008.

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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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• I had to think really hard about how to choose between job offers.

  Marissa Mayer

  Thinking, Offers, Hard

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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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• I could never have gotten back into my career without the undying support of my husband, who works full time at a stressful job! We decided that we were going to do this as total partners and it is a 50/50 deal with us.

  Lindsay Davenport

  Husband, Careers, Support

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• It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren't really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it's the best.

  Leo Kottke

  Thinking, Would Be, Earth

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• You're not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You're either devoted to your job, or to your desires. So the best way to spend your life is to try to be devoted to prayer, to Allah.

  Mos Def

  Prayer, Desire, Trying

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• My life is not separate from my music, you know? It's not like a day job that I leave and go home. It's who I am as a person and how I am trying to grow, come closer to God, be a better person.

  Matisyahu

  Home, Who I Am, Trying

  "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly" with Kim Lawton, www.pbs.org. December 10, 2009.

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• No physical quantity can continue to change exponentially forever. Your job is delaying forever.

  Gordon Moore

  Forever, Quantity

  "Another decade for Moore's Law?". www.cnn.com. February 11, 2003.

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• As Deborah Rhode describes, “When 1,100 Michigan elementary students were asked to describe what life would be like if they were the opposite sex, over 40 percent of the girls saw advantages to being male; they would have better jobs, higher incomes, and more respect. Ninety-five percent of the boys saw no advantage to being female, and a substantial number thought suicide would be preferable.”

  Deborah Rhode

  Girl, Suicide, Sex

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• The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it.

  Terri Windling

  Nature, Thinking, Years

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• I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and helps one work more efficiently. I think we all need to strike a balance between work and relaxation. This can keep us energetic and help us do our job better.

  Xi Jinping

  Sports, Exercise, Swimming

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• I guess my tendency is to think essentially that the new wrinkles won't do the job if the old major idea didn't, and so you have to try something different. Then maybe they can all be combined in some coherent piece.

  Robert Nozick

  Thinking, Wrinkles, Ideas

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• I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.

  Nina Bawden

  War, Oxford, Auntie

  "Nina's wars" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2003.

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• Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because unions are disappearing and because of the global nature of the economy.

  Andy Stern

  Class, People, Unions

  Interview with Ezra Klein, voices.washingtonpost.com. April 14, 2010.

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• PayPal once rejected a candidate who aced all the engineering tests because for fun, the guy said that he liked to play hoops. That single sentence lost him the job.

  Max Levchin

  Fun, Engineering, Play

  Interview with Peter Thiel, gist.github.com. 2012.

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• Through your life, most people peel away the junk that's not useful, that's superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing at a time. One man at a time. One car. One house. One child. One job.

  Grace Slick

  Children, Men, People

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• I didn't have any great job prospects.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Great Job, Prospects

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• I would never really analyse what I do. I leave that to other people - I'm not a critic. I just want to get on with whatever I have in hand, you know? Just try to make the best job of the available material.

  Dylan Moran

  Hands, Best Job, People

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