Quotes
Quotes about Job
Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
To be a housewife is to be a member of a very peculiar occupation, one with characteristics like no other. The nature of the duties to be performed, the method of payment, the form of supervision, the tenure system, the "market" in which the "workers" find "jobs," and the physical hazzards are all very different from the way things are in other occupations.
It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.
As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.
I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change their motive to service in order to change their lives.
For example, there was the day he gave me the job of figuring out how many jelly beans it would take to fill up Soldier Field.
The tougher the job, the greater the reward.
The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss.
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it.
Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
For years [my wedding ring] has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.
There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share of job opportunities.
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
