257 quotes found
“Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.”
“You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they've got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than an...”
“First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate s...”
“That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.”
“With today’s technology, social attitudes and appetite for self-actualisation, we’d ideally look upon our work with a sense of pride, involvement and accomplishment. But we’re rarely given the chan...”
“Eric understands that the world is rarely the way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ...”
“It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower.”
“Every technology will alienate you from some part of your life. That is its job. Your job is to notice. First notice the difference. And then, every time, choose.”
“No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a mistake in the choice of his profession, and every man, worthy of the name, will row long against wind and tide before he allows himself to cry out, '...”
“Getting too interested in the English way of life won't help you land a permanent job.”
“The success of your job-hunt dependson you—with a little help from your friends. You must be in charge of it. You must plan it. You mustdirect it. You must know what works and what doesn’t work. Yo...”
“Just because you can’t find them doesn’t mean they don’t exist. You’ve got to change the way you’relooking for them. Because there are always job vacancies out there.”
“If you can’t find a job, use your special gift to create a job.”
“In the meantime, I’ll get a job. I’ll pay my own way.” “A job?” “Mmm, yeah. It’s that thing people do to make money.”
“There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.”
“, “As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.”
“At its core, each vocation is a particular, unique instantiation of the father’s summons to the true homeland of the kingdom. The etymological root of the word ‘vocation’ points in this direction. ...”
