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Career Quotes
"I'd rather not look for a job... to let a fine one find me. And that definitely wouldn't define me as a snob!"
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"When at work, be diligent because there are many people who wish they had your job, but they couldn't since you are the one who got."
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"Like plumbing, medicine is a profession where you learn early on not to put your fingers in your mouth."
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"Writing is work. It's also gambling. You don't get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but essentially you're on your own. Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don't whine."
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"There was a certain struggling fury that went with being jobless, and persevering, and being turned down, that was different from simply being jobless."
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"He is loyal to his own career but only incidentally to anything or anyone else."
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"He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."
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"Your job as a young adult is to become as valuable to the marketplace as you can. Your job as a human is to do so without working a day in your life."
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"Life experience is the new work experience."
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"Novelist by day, screenwriter by night."
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"Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice."
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"Do not complain about two things; your job and your position, because you can always change them."
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"Job tip: If you were the employer, what kind of person would you most desire as an employee? Be that person."
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"Jack of all trades or master of one? If you're a master of one, you'll soon be a master of none. Times are a changin. Be a jack of all trades. Or better, master of many!"
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"I've got America's best writer for $300 a week."
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"When choosing a profession, a person will have good incentive for personal development by choosing such a profession that represents a personal challenge."
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"We all desperately need brilliant sales professionals far more than ever before " to help us, guide us, keep us informed and stop us from making diabolically stupid buying decisions."
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"I wanted to join Footlights, he says. "I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact I wanted to be John Cleese and it took me some time to realise that the job was in fact taken."
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"When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'"
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"Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J."
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"Losing your job shows you the worth of your time rather the worth of money."
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"I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers."
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"I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing."
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"I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination I'm very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I'm feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It's gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be."
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"An entrepreneur sells his thoughts and ideas as a packaged product."
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"I've had maybe 20 jobs, big and small, and I've never hated any of them. At the same time, the moment the learning curve flattened, I was out of there."
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"Having a job is being busy."
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"Joblessness gives you the resource through which you can create a new you."
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"Work is designed to be a means of fulfilling your destiny."
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"Your professional experience can strengthen your resume, increase your earning potential, prove dependability, instill trust, and open new doors of opportunity which would remain closed otherwise."
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"When you're under employment, you are not working in the area of your calling but rather helping to fulfill your employer's."
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"Getting fired from work is not a tragedy."
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"The purpose of employment is not to make money."
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"Joblessness brings you face to face with destiny."
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