Jobs Quotes
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I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.
Richard Pryor
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I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be irresponsible here, relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember the time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So stay out late. Go out with your friends on a Tuesday when you have a paper due on Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
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Having a child keeps you very grounded. So when I decided to have a child, I made it clear to the people I work with that my job was no longer my priority.
Carolyn Murphy
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My district has a lot of trade-dependent jobs.
Suzanne Bonamici
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Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it?
Evgeny Morozov
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Businesses generally deal with minimum wage increases by finding efficiencies in their business practices or slightly increasing prices if they have to, not cutting jobs. Of course: because they need staff to make their businesses run!
David Rolf
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Maybe we should all just listen to records and quit our jobs.
Jack White The White Stripes
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I always try to push myself, even more now because evidently I'm not doing something right. I'm trying to do the little things that count in practice to try and get my job back.
Rajon Rondo
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You do a job like mine because you love the job, not because it's going to make you famous.
Ray Winstone
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I was free from fear for the first time ever while making the music. Fear's job is to distract us from the truth. There's no fear on my record.
Andrew Ripp
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Ultimately, it's not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people's expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.
Viola Davis
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Technology is always creating jobs. It's always destroying jobs.
Erik Brynjolfsson
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More and more people now have jobs that require them to confront the risk of appearing stupid on a regular basis.
Seth Godin
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The truth is I would do my job for free! I love it every day. If you can possibly choose a vocation that's an avocation, a job that's really a hobby, then you'll be way ahead of the game. You should not pick an occupation because your think your parents want you to do it, or because you think it's the noble thing to do. You should only pick a job because it turns you on.
Henry Louis Gates
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I guess there's a sort of cycle with writing books. There's all the researching and then the imagining and writing - which is the real job - and then there's always a period when the book comes out and you have to lift your head and venture out.
Monica Ali
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A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a 'megadeath' a 'million corpses' than an embalmer would refer to a 'loved one' as a 'stiff.'
Russell Baker
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The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.
Stephen Cole Kleene
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I just like to be under the radar and concentrate and do my job.
Melky Cabrera
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Great companies don’t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them. People are either motivated or they are not. Unless you give motivated people something to believe in, something bigger than their job to work toward, they will motivate themselves to find a new job and you’ll be stuck with whoever’s left.
Simon Sinek
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People need jobs and those types of ideological protests that get in the way are not going to be tolerated by ordinary Canadians.
Sonya Savage
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As mayor, I've traveled to China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and Mexico to meet with heads of state and business leaders to promote trade with L.A. companies and through L.A.'s seaports and airports - because that generates L.A. jobs.
Eric Garcetti
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I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you could be a photographer for a job.
Nigel Barker
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My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.
Ricardo Lagos