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Job Quotes


"While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise."


"I'm not going to rule out running for a second term. But, I think you have to be psychologically prepared to walk away from the job after four years. It's the only way that you cannot be influenced by those special interests."


"And it seems to me correct then, and I think it's correct now, that job one is get the planning done, make sure the buses are there. When that's done, it's completely appropriate to go around and tour around and look at the damage."


"Going from Flip to Kev, obviously you don't want to see someone ever lose their job. For me it's probably a little more difficult, because other than Bill Blair, Flip is all I knew."


"I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory."


"As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India."


"Doing any job for too long limits your possibilities."


"There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them."
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"This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it."


"No individual has a vested right to a job when that individual fails to perform adequately."


"I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned."
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"When you walk away from a really wonderful job like that, you start messing with everyone's priorities. It's like you're dissing them."


"I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States."


"The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the world."


"You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this."


"Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point."


"I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job."
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"All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job."


"Because when we're in space, my job is primarily getting us there and getting us back."


"We must do a better job of educating all drivers to be safer on the road."


"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."


"It starts this way: The worth of a job is not defined by what it allows you to do when you're not working."



"The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up."
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"I think the tour is doing a better job of showing off the personalities of the players with their website, which is filled with tidbits of what the players are up to."
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"I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job."
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"When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it."


"He wants to be his own man and be recognized for what he's done. He's not asking for anything because of his name. That was a tough situation to go into at Alabama, but he probably wouldn't have been given the job if the situation would have been different."
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