8,413 Quotes About Jobs

  • Author Alain de Botton
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    I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.

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  • Author Alan Ball
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    As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone and format, after a while it's a really great job, but that's what it is - a job.

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  • Author Alan Ball
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    I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.

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  • Author Alben W. Barkley
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    ...the best definition that I heard of that is that a bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job that a Republican wants.

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  • Author Albert Bandura
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    There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.

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  • Author Albert Brooks
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    I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.

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  • Author Alec Baldwin
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    Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!

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  • Author Albert Brooks
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    In the beginning of any career, in every job, people are always forcing you to the middle.

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  • Author Alexis Bledel
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    The theatre and traveling through my modeling jobs, all of those experiences have helped a lot actually.

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