- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Job Quotes
What a job costs, and what it takes.
Quotes about "job" here focus on careers in the arts — a warning that a comfortable day job can quietly end a musician's ambitions, and advice to take any first job just to get into the industry. For work-focused reflection, see Doing quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
- Count
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- Nov 07, 2020
To get a job as a blackjack dealer, you have to be able to count very quickly. Obviously, you need to do at least math, adding up to 21 very quickly.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Irrelevance is the feeling that an employee gets when they don't see how their job really makes a difference in someone else's life in some large or small way.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
After school, I got a job in a shop in Hollywood and shared an apartment with a friend. I promptly lost my job and got evicted from my apartment, and that happened several times.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because they came in and started directing things like 'Harry Potter.'
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
After football, ideally I want to take Gary Lineker's job, but we'll see about that. I'd love to do that, present 'Match of the Day.'
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playing on the right isn't a role I prefer, but sometimes you've got to do your job for the team.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020