Job Quotes - Page 5

I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of their jobs.

All professions have some element of theater to them.

David Halberstam

Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was—by Time corporate standards—just a little lazy.

David Halberstam

Why do lazy, minimum effort employees always seem to find places where they feel "underappreciated"?

If you launch a career doing something you don't really like, that even if you're successful, you won't feel successful, and you'll be contemptuous of your own success.

Douglas Copeland

The curse of the fall didn't affect only manual work, as we often seem to think. Excessive ambiguity that prevent us from figuring out how to navigate is really a form of confusion. Overload is one of the forms that frustration takes. The inordinate challenges we face in knowledge work can be traced to the fall just as much as the challenges in manual work. Send it especially lies behind the villain of lack of fulfillment. The reason we lack fulfillment is because we aren't fulfilling our true purpose, that is because we have sinned and deviated from God's path.

We feel unfulfilled when there is a gap between what is most important to us, the realm of personal leadership, and what we are actually doing with our time, the realm of personal management. You are satisfied with your day when there is a match between what you value and how you spend your time.

The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job.

You couldn't allow yourself to get bored. THAT would be a fight.

The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal

Old fighters keep making comebacks. We are more alive when boxing than at almost any other time.

I believe the road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master IN THAT LINE. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources. Andrew Carnegie

How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII

Barbara W. Tuchman

He wasn't an especially charismatic or commanding individual, but what he lacked in personality he emphatically made up for in diligence.

Dan Jones

Toughened or coarsened by their worldly lives, the other dissenters could shrug and move on, but Souter couldn't. His whole life was being a judge.

When he studied, it was not so much for a promotion as to EXCEL at his job.

David Halberstam

The way the early Protestants taught on the other hand is that everybody is a full time minister in their various places of work. They went to the extent of saying, your job, profession, occupation is your calling

No matter what office LBJ assumed he lifted greater than when he found it.

David Pietrusza

Only God can make the common sacred.

it is the general rule of the moral universe that those men prosper who do their work with all their hearts, while those are almost certain to fail who go to their labour leaving half their hearts behind them.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Robert Kennedy was inspired to take on organized crime by watching the landmark movie On the Waterfront.

He cross-examined his very wine when he had nothing else at hand.

Charles Dickens

As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.

One good deed is more worth than a thousand brilliant theories. Let us not wait for large opportunities, or for a different kind of work, but do just the things we "find to do" day by day.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles.

Richard Brookhiser

Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired.

He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.

Passion does not translate easily into good income.

If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Don't sweat the small stuff" doesn't work with parenting small children. They only work in small stuff. They aren't making company decisions. They are deciding whether to use a crayon on the wall. – Bill Klein

The Little Couple

You can't fulfill your calling inside your comfort zone.

Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God. If we are bored with life there is something wrong with our concept of God and His involvement in our daily lives. Even the most dull and tedious days of our lives are ordained by God and ought to be used by us to glorify Him.

Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job-- not a calling.

Find a job from which you do not need a vacation.

Debasish Mridha M.D.

I was a really good waitress. Waitressing takes a certain gusto. You need a good memory and an ability to connect with people fast. You have to learn how to treat the kitchen as well as you treat the customers. You have to figure out which crazy people to listen to and which crazy people to ignore. I loved waiting tables because when you cashed out at the end of the night your job was truly over. You wiped down your section and paid out your busboy and you knew your work was done.

If you want your dreams to work out for you, you must work with them. Pay the price and have the package of your accomplishments in full versions.

Israelmore Ayivor

The poorest person on earth is not the person who has no job, no cars, no money and no house. The poorest person is the one who has no vision. Visionlessness is poverty in disguise.

Israelmore Ayivor

You need to know the constituency you belong to...and that is revealed by your constituents. When your constituents are speaking in public and making of stories, your constituency can be "journalism".

Israelmore Ayivor

We all have our unique careers that differ from one another, but the fact is that we must become "teachers and learners" at the end of it all! By the "learning career", we know what other people know; by the "teaching career", we make other people to know what we know!

Israelmore Ayivor

The devil may not be interested in preventing you from knowing the undone job. What he may do is to make you think it’s somebody’s job and not yours.

Israelmore Ayivor

The sweeper of the street is a leader in his own respect provided he does his job well with all love, diligence and attention than anyone would do when given the same broom sticks.

Israelmore Ayivor

There is greatness in everyone already. The job of the leader is not to put greatness in anyone. The job of the leader is to make people discover and exploit the greatness already existing in them!

Israelmore Ayivor

There is an easy way of finding the job to be done today, just look around your environment; take note of the places that need cleaning and the places that need decoration; do one at a time!

Israelmore Ayivor

When it comes to getting a job or client, congruent value is aligning the employer's need with your value add.

The PC principle is to always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

Stephen R. Covey

In a sense, discouragement does not have to exist. Allow it to be rather the encouragement to honestly reconsider all the options, then, as necessary, shine on.

A friend’s 14-year-old niece was asked by her teacher what she wanted to be when she finished school. The teacher asked her to think hard about it and then get back to him with an answer. She didn’t know what to say to her teacher. A friend, on hearing the girl’s predicament, said: ‘Tell your teacher that, perhaps, the thing you want to be when you leave school hasn’t been invented yet.

I thought buying at the local market would be an excellent way to build positive relationships with the local villagers.

Take advantage of losing your job by making it an opportunity to find a better one..

Hassan Choughari

Many men beg for a job but have no clue what hard work really means.

To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If growing up means not seeing one’s family and friends on the regular—all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up is overrated.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Always take the job, pursue the life, and have the friends that allow you to have as much freedom as possible.

Quinn came forward and Sam pulled him aside. His old friend looked tortured and sad.“What’s up, brah?” Sam asked.Quinn couldn’t speak. He was choked with emotion. “Dude . . .”“You want to stay in town.”“My crews . . . my boats and all . . .”Sam put a hand on his shoulder. “Quinn, I’m glad you found something so important to do. Something you really like.”“Yeah, but . . .”Sam pulled him into a brief hug. “You and me, we’re still friends, man. But you have responsibilities.

Imagination is pure potentiality for creation. We shouldn't submit it to the hourly wages we subject our time at work.

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

I spend a lot of time imagining things - in fact, you could say that imagining things is my job.

So many people spend years (and money) studying to be doctors, lawyers, actors, dancers, business executives and scientists - when you're an author, you can be any of these things, and you don't need a degree or certificate; all you need is an imagination, a dream and an open mind.

I have what takes to get the job done.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Always work enthusiastically.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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