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Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that ...

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The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

I really enjoy what I do, and who I'm with and where I am. Having said that, I'm not really a person...

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The idea of having a steady job is appealing.

Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them pr...

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Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to ...

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I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning ...

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I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them thei...

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Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values.

My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I a...

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The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following...

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Seth GodinLinchpin: Are You Indispensable?

I truly believe my job is to make sure people smile.

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job...

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I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Be...

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I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Be...

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I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Be...

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I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Be...

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To catch a husband is an art to hold him is a job.

Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put yo...

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My job at the end of the day is to design timeless, desirable, beautiful products. It's not about ju...

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My job is to make desirable, luxurious, beautiful clothing and accessories women want to buy. My fir...

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The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recession. W...

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When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and ye...

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The most classic horror tale of this latter type is the Old Testament story of Job, who becomes huma...

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Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs dow...

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What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think 'outside the box,' people who want to use ...

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The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a s...

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It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I ...

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My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened i...

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Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is ...

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Those were times when brave men who knew and loved their profession couldn't be overlooked.

The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends...

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Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married wit...

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What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

Don't hire anyone you wouldn't want to run into in the hallway at three in the morning.

My first job as assistant director was to make sure he didn't cast the talented blond dancer who had...

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The extraneous duties, in a sense, were the job.

You couldn't allow yourself to get bored. THAT would be a fight.

Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us ...

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I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just rem...

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If you don't have a job right now, and you have a computer and a basic intelligence level, I guarant...

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What you wear for work should be comfortable and empowering. If you're working in business, your out...

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Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor or ...

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A while ago I said that, 'You know, I like a guy - he doesn't have to be all rich and famous - he ca...

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When I make a movie, I don't break it down and analyze it. I could but it would get in the way of do...

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Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up ...

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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was ...

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Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In ...

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Speaking of Newton but also commenting more broadly on education and the Enlightenment: "I have seen...

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You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the j...

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Just because you can't act EVERYWHERE doesn't mean you don't act ANYWHERE. – Madeleine Albright

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Walter IsaacsonAmerican Sketches: Great Leaders

To be successful, look for the job you will take if you don't need a job

It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government ...

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The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every mor...

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If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a ho...

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Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

I notice you use 'work' and 'job' interchangeably. oughten to do that. A job's what you force yourse...

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If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and h...

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Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about q...

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It's a rotten job, but somebody's got to do it.

Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there ...

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, “As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except th...

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The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for 'Leaves ...

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I've accepted that I was a failure in politics. I was not qualified for the job.

I get up in the morning, have a job to do, go there, come home, be with the family, that's it.

When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I s...

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I was a really good waitress. Waitressing takes a certain gusto. You need a good memory and an abili...

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In the end, does it really matter if newspapers physically disappear? Probably not: the world is alw...

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Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me u...

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I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it i...

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by and large,mothers and house wives are the only workers who do not have regular time off.They are ...

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It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my...

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My job is to know what other people do not know.

There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagin...

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So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come...

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If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and ...

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What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we hav...

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In books, coaching sessions, and networking events aimed at the white-collar unemployed, the seeker ...

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It is very helpful to me, in my job, for people to know me better. A lot of that is, it's a communic...

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My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my ...

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Unemployment insurance, abolishing child labor, the 40-hour work week, collective bargaining, strong...

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Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degre...

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Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time j...

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There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for m...

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When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my...

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I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that d...

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We need an equal opportunity society, one in which government does not see its job as picking winner...

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The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

In July of 2010, I lost my finance job in Chicago. Instead of updating my resume and looking for a s...

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I'm thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing tha...

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When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you'...

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My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to c...

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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional ...

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An Oklahoma girl like me wouldn't even know how to be a diva. I'm just a person who has a cool job. ...

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I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with ...

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That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest i...

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