Jobs Quotes - Page 34

• You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Labels, Stylist, Stuff

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• You have the dreams that you want, and then you have to do other jobs until you can get to that dream.

  Channing Tatum

  Dream, Want

  "Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey, Matt Bomer and Joe Manganiello Talk MAGIC MIKE, Male vs. Female Strip Clubs, Dance Numbers and More". Interview, collider.com. June 27, 2012.

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• The legacy of Steve Jobs and the strength of Steve Jobs is that he established a company that's clearly firing on all cylinders and clicking very well.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Legacy, Cylinders, Wells

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

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• The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.

  Andre Gide

  People

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.450, Vintage

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• The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis.

  Thomas Szasz

  Skills, Needs, Poor

  Thomas Szasz (1988). “The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Theory and Method of Autonomous Psychotherapy”, p.28, Syracuse University Press

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• It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.

  Stephen King

  Language, Bones

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.487, Anchor

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• I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.

  Ted Allen

  Teaching, Wine, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level.

  Quentin Crisp

  Funny, Mother, Father

  1968 The Naked Civil Servant, ch.1.

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• This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Firsts, First Time, Knows

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• I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too.

  Paul Walker

  Dad, Focus, Actors

  FaceBook post by Paul Walker from Mar 02, 2012

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• The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.

  Benjamin Spock

  Children, Parenting, Long

  Benjamin Spock, Robert Needlman (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 9th Edition”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Children, Inexperience, Overcoming

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go wherever she has a job. All basements look the same, so I can write from whatever basement I happen to be living in.

  John Green

  Art, Writing, Museums

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• I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.

  Ronald Reagan

  Morning, Office, Oval

  Ronald Reagan (1990). “An American Life”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.

  Nigel Rees

  Doe, Workplace, Ends

  "In other words ..." by Nigel Rees, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2006.

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• Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.

  David K. Shipler

  Eye, Hands, Leaving

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• I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Real, College, Thinking

  "Mary-Chapin Carpenter: Country's Unlikely Star" by Eliza Wing, www.rollingstone.com. March 21, 1991.

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• So I came home and I had a resume and everything, but the only job experience I had was just playing in bars and clubs on my summers off. So, I was temping and stuff during the day and playing music at night.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Summer, Home, Night

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• The director's job is full of all sorts of annoyances and details - like how many cars are on the street. Ugh. I don't want it. I like my gig. And I feel that for the next 30 years or so I can keep learning more about it.

  Tyne Daly

  Years, Car, Next

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

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• Change is healthy and useful. It has to be fought for most of the time. It's not inevitable. It takes real leadership and real effort. But I think it's really important not to take yourself too seriously. Dwight Eisenhower used to have a rule that you should always take your job seriously but not yourself.

  Newt Gingrich

  Change, Real, Thinking

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• I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.

  Harry Bridges

  Right Time, Wanted, Happened

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• Man, coaching is a hard job, and it requires a lot of time... I hear stories from coaches who tell me that players call them in the middle of the night not knowing where they parked their car.

  Joe Montana

  Player, Night, Men

  "Interview: Joe Montana blood pressure". www.askmen.com.

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• A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Giving, Vision, World

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• Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Home, Earth, Four

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• He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts; when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver.

  Philip Yancey

  God, Giver, Stills

  Philip Yancey (1997). “Where Is God When It Hurts?”, p.98, Zondervan

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