"Masochism is a valuable job skill."

Job, Skill

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"Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

Job, Man, Woman

"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."

Paul Simon, American Musician

Job, Majority

"If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job."

Woody Allen, American Director

Job,

"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Job,

"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Job,

"Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can."

John F. Kennedy, American President

Job,

"Masochism is a valuable job skill."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

Job, Skill

"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

Job, Leading

"You know it's my job to visualize, what is literal or audible, so I designed all the characters, and I designed what they do and how they should do it and so on."

Gerald Scarfe, British Artist

Job,

"The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

Job, Lonely, Man, Public

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"What if reality is nothing but some disease?"

Philosophical

"No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice."

Mindfulness

"A woman calls from Seaview to say her linen closet is missing. Last September, her house had six bedrooms, two linen closets. She's sure of it. Now she's only got one. She comes to open her beach house for the summer. She drives out from the city with the kids and the nanny and the dog, and here they are with all heir luggage, and their towels are gone. Disappeared. Poof. Bermuda triangulated."

Mystery

"It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we don't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. Even if it's for sure unexplainable. Even God."

Mystery

"We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them."

Behavior

"It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one."

Creation

"You have to give up! you have to give up!You have to realize that someday you will die,Until you know that, you are useless!"

Acceptance

"The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems."

Empathy

"If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin."

Mortality

"Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second."

Mindfulness