257 quotes found
“You better get used to touchy-feely around here, sweetie”
“I thought that teaching twenty-eight energetic and needy children how to read had to be the hardest job on earth. I was wrong - mothering was. Now I had to give up my right to sleep when I needed i...”
“Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.”
“You know, Piggly Wiggly never could hang on to a night stock manager. Your math skills would be a plus, maybe even your Spanish, and you don't mind staying up late.""Piggly Wiggly, wow. I hadn't th...”
“Job was comfortless before the speech of Jehovah and is comforted after it. He has been told nothing, but he feels the terrible and tingling atmosphere of something which is too good to be told.”
“At its core, each vocation is a particular, unique instantiation of the fathers summons to the true homeland of the kingdom. The etymological root of the word vocation points in this direction. The...”
“This is not his job, I thought, it's his passion.”
“My job is to know what other people do not know.”
“People who like their job will give it their best. Those who don't, show it by a poor performance.”
“Say this one time with me: "Would you like that in a pump or a loafer?"... Good. Now memorize it, because starting tomorrow, the only job that you're going to be able to get is selling SHOES!”
“... a practical problem can only be solved by action itself. When your practical problem is how to earn a living, a book on how to make friends and influence people cannot solve it, though it may s...”
“Never leave a job unfinished, unless you are unable to finish it.”
“For the man in the paddock, whose duty is is to sweep up manure,the supreme terror is the possibility of a world without horses. Totell him that it is disgusting to spend ones life shoveling up hot...”
“If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job.”
“A religious person without no job is a dead person. (Iigbagbo ti koni ise oku ni. - Yoruba proverb)”
“The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in ord...”
“I've accepted that I was a failure in politics. I was not qualified for the job.”
“I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.”
“If two very different people pool their DNA, they'll create more genetic variety, and their young will come to the job of parenting with a wider array of skills.”
“Parenting is the most important job on the planet next to keeping Gary Busey off the nation's highways.”