Job Quotes - Page 2

The garden is an unemployed township-based man's cubicle.

Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.

If everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionary and brilliant. … If you got to spend every day of your life doing what you love, you can’t help but be the best in the world at that. And you get to smile every day for doing so. And you’ll be working at it almost to the exclusion of personal hygiene, and your friends are knocking on your door, saying, “Don’t you need a vacation?!,” and you don’t even know what the word “vacation” means because what you’re doing is what you want to do and a vacation from that is anything but a vacation — that’s the state of mind of somebody who’s doing what others might call visionary and brilliant.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

You know, Piggly Wiggly never could hang on to a night stock manager. Your math skills would be a plus, maybe even your Spanish, and you don't mind staying up late.""Piggly Wiggly, wow. I hadn't thought about that. I'll swing by, pick up an application tomorrow. But if it doesn't pan out maybe ... Never mind, it's a crazy idea.""No, tell me. I want to hear it.""Well, just as a backup plan, I did hear that Sony has an opening. They're, um, they're looking for a rock star. The hours suck, but it's no worse than night stock manager at Pigs. I bet it pays better too."Isabel stopped in her tracks, playfully slapping his arm. "Aidan, that's genius! That's what you should do! I've heard you sing, you can carry a decent tune." She looked him up and down. "With a little work, you can probably pull off the image."He tugged on her arms until she was in his. "Only if you're sure. Only if it's what we want.""Aidan, it's who you are. I've known it since the day we brought that first guitar here. I'd never want to take that away.

Laura Spinella

The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability.

S.A. Tawks

She didn't want to alienate herself from the very wealthy man that was about to offer her a job by declining the polite offer of a drink.

S.A. Tawks

Get me your manager.” Dove held her head high and tried to seem older and more self-assured. The teenager barely registered her request. “Do it now. My friend here is about to crap his pants. Do you want to smell it?” Dove slapped her hands down on the counter, snapping the life into the girl. “Do you want to smell his shit?

Debra Anastasia

My first job as assistant director was to make sure he didn't cast the talented blond dancer who had so easily stolen my boyfriend the summer before. I accomplished this with the persistent and skilled manipulation of a grade A bitch.

Tina Fey

The only job a parent has is work themselves out of a job.

Holly Gates

Boss may be on, but leader can be anyone.

Ameya Agrawal

No job is complete until the selfie is posted.

Ashok Kallarakkal

There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

David Graeber

For mankind knows hardly a joy which will surpass that of approval of his work.

Ernest Vincent Wright

, “As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.

Alexander the Great

I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career.

Criss Jami

Being proud of my work and wanting to nurture this relationship, I never failed in my commitments to her. In general, I make a point of meeting all my deadlines. But, I distinctly remember one time that I couldn’t deliver the job in time…

Ajit Kumar Jha

failure is costly, both to society and to individuals. Pretending that all people are equal in their abilities will not change the fact that a person with an average IQ is unlikely to become a theoretical physicist, or the fact that a person with a low level of music ability is unlikely to become a concert pianist. It makes more sense to pay attention to people’s abilities and their likelihood of achieving certain goals, so people can make good decisions about the goals they want to spend their time, money, and energy pursuing

David Hambrick

The difference between an Employer and an Employee is that as payday approaches, the Employee is full of hope and expectation while the Employer is full of fear and trepidation

Ankala V Subbarao

It's almost never the kind of person you are but the kind of job you do decides how much you get paid.

Saahil Prem

Being in touch with your strengths and weaknesses, as well as what motivates you, will help you be more successful in your job.

Joanie Connell

Do not complain about two things; your job and your position, because you can always change them.

M.F. Moonzajer

Those were times when brave men who knew and loved their profession couldn't be overlooked.

Thomas Hughes

The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as "seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand.

Robert A. Caro

Practice hard,Train hard,work hard and Play harder.

Alcurtis Turner

And I will wait for Jarod to work for me. For free, cause if it's paid, it's work and not love, unless, of course he loves to work, in which case he’ll surely love working for me, because I love people who love to do that to love to do that.

Will Advise

On the street below, the weather is calm. But up here, high winds threaten to topple the workers. A sudden gust can knock them from their footing with its sheer force or send a fatal vibration through the beams on which they stand. And yet the men joke, laugh, stroll across the foot-wide beams as though they are on solid ground. To the people on the sidewalk, tiny as ants below, the skywalkers appear entirely unafraid. A hundred years ago, their grandfathers and great-grandfathers built the skyscrapers and bridges that surround them.

David Weitzman

Many of us wake up at the age of 40 one day, dreading going to work because we were forced to pick a career before we could legally buy a beer.

Dave Shepp

To cleave wood is a common every-day business, and yet it has its dangers; so then, reader, there are dangers connected with your calling and daily life which it will be well for you to be aware of. Your occupation may be as humble as log splitting, and yet the devil can tempt you in it. Nowhere is he safe who thinks himself so.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Western farmers were individualists cheifly in their dreams.

H.W. Brands

To kill for fun is the job of the psychopaths! And what is a matador, apart from being a mentally ill person?

Mehmet Murat ildan

What job do you want to do?And I see them all hanging up before me, like clothes on a rack, all the jobs, tinker, tailor, soldier, and you have to pick one and then you have to pretend for the rest of your life that that's what you are. So they aint no different really from accidents of birth. I didn't know that phrase then but I learnt it later. It's a good phrase...

Graham Swift

Obviously, a lot of people involved with Volkswagen's emissions were aware of the diesel car software cheat. One has to wonder how many of them tried to stop it and perhaps were demoted or lost their jobs over trying to prevent the secret Volkswagen car emissions fraud?

Steven Magee

Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: "It would kill him if he relaxed.

Robert A. Caro

Our fathers of faith have done a great job delivering our nations from the clutches of idolatry and witchcraft through signs and wonders

Sunday Adelaja

The best thing that ever happened to you might be your new job, spouse, awards, etc, but I tell you that being granted to live in order to enjoy these things are wonderful privileges most people can't get.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Parenthood is harder than conventional work, the author suggests, because our jobs develop a somewhat predictable flow and offer relatively short-term feedback. This leads to internal comparisons to the improvisational nature of parenting

Jennifer Senior

When there is a challenge to be met, you can be sure someone will rise to it. When there is a job to be done, someone will do it and get the deserved praise for it. Will that person be you?

Unknown author (possibly Lewis Carrol).

You need to work even if it is a menial or dirty job, because every job is participating in the process of creation.

Sunday Adelaja

Even though your time on the job is temporary, if you do a good enough job, your work there will last forever.

Idowu Koyenikan

So where does that leave me? I like hosting the show....It’s become my identity. If that’s gone, where am I?

Barbara Delinsky

In the meantime, I’ll get a job. I’ll pay my own way.” “A job?” “Mmm, yeah. It’s that thing people do to make money.

Kelley Armstrong

Most of us, at some time or other, get sucked into the lifeless vacuum of work; the cogs of the corporate machine that we keep turning until one day, when we depart this Earth, we may earn the word ‘lubricant’ on our headstone.

Fennel Hudson

Loving your work doesn’t mean finding a job you can tolerate for eight hours a day, but rather a job that gets you flying out of bed in the morning like a Jack Russell who just had a firecracker stuffed up his ass.

Ari Gold

Think little of yourselves, but do not think too little of your calling.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Working for OSHA is a horrible job to have. You have to ignore the whistle blowers and send them illegal letters saying that you cannot find any problems. I have a lot of those fraudulent letters, as I have been through OSHA twice. Once as the utility company employee and once as the utility company subcontractor employee. It is a disgusting & blatently corrupt system.

Steven Magee

Getting accepted or rejected is based on factors for a job is mere for selection and not the result. Life has bigger results awaiting to face! Face it with a smile!

Santosh Avvannavar

Schedule a sit-down with your direct boss and establish what she expects you to be focusing on in the first days and weeks of the job. Take written notes and determine—this is especially important—what your deadlines are. … Then be sure to request feedback about how you’re doing. A few weeks after you’ve started, schedule another meeting with your boss. Don’t say, “Am I doing okay?” Say, “I’m really enjoying my job. Are there any suggestions you’d offer?

Kate White

Smile at people, pop your head into your boss’s office regularly and say hello, and come to your first meeting with something really smart to say.

Kate White

Energy should be used to check out stuff and think on them... So far I used it to criticize victims and killers... So far it's awesome job.

Deyth Banger

In any career, there is a moment when you are no longer need to be pushed up from below, but rather pulled up from above. Know when that moment comes and adjust your strategy accordingly.

Clifford Cohen

What's the point of a good job if you're dead?

Andrew Garve

Do the job for the joy of work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Explore the endless opportunities in life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If you can find your perfect job, create one.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Create the job, we wish to have.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You can create your ideal job.

Lailah Gifty Akita

As an applicant, you need to show recruiters that you have the skills, experience and knowledge that they need, and provide the evidence of this in a tailored application.

Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba

He who makes $25,000 annually through passive income is more enviable than he who earns $100,000 annually through a salary.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If you can’t find a job, use your special gift to create a job.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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