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Quotes About Employment

a fat Reichian wife screeching over potatoes Get a job! And five nose running brats in love with Batman
~ Gregory Corso
I don't have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job.
~ Terrence Howard
for work these days; nobody had been hired in janitorial
~ Max Allan Collins
You should have seen some of the "careers" listed on our first employment census; everyone was some version of an "executive," a "representative," an "analyst," or a "consultant
~ Max Brooks
A certain person wondered why a big strong girl like me wouldn't keep a job which paid a normal salary. I took my time to lead her and to read her every page. Even minimal people can't survive on minimal wage. A certain person wondered why I wait all week for you. I didn't have the words to describe just what you do. I said you had the motion of the ocean in your walk, and when you solve my riddles you don't even have to talk.
~ Maya Angelou
No, he said, and he snapped his fingers. You'll come work for me at K----. And be a real associate editor. I said, I could bring you up on charges for that. What? Work harassment in the sexual place.
~ Melissa Bank
That's how you tell a merc is dead; he just stops collecting paychecks.
~ Mercedes Lackey
This is from Payroll Division: I wasn't even teaching in June, and I certainly don't have $2.75. Apparently they don't know I'm file # 443-817 and have got me confused with another–possibly # 443-818?
~ Bel Kaufman
If improving conditions in the workplace for women had been a central agenda for feminist movement in conjunction with efforts to obtain better paying jobs for women and finding jobs for unemployed women of all classes, feminism would have been seen as a movement addressing the concerns of all women.
~ bell hooks
Quando temos de fazer um trabalho que odiamos, por exemplo, isso ataca a nossa autoestima e autoconfiança. O trabalho, quando percebido como um fardo, por se realizar em empregos ruins em vez de aprimorar a autoestima, deprime o espírito
~ bell hooks
She's a social worker." What else? Dan quipped to himself, thinking of the vast sea of unemployed and unemployable Californians. Half the state stood in welfare lines while the other half stood behind the desks ministering to them. Maybe they take turns at it, he thought, one week in line and one week running the system
~ Ben Bova
It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference.
~ Ben Carson
It's not what you know but the kind of job you do that makes the difference.
~ Ben Carson
Today we produce only 60,000 to 70,000 engineers per year, 40 percent of whom are foreigners, while China produces over 400,000 engineers per year.
~ Ben Carson
small businesses create 80 percent of the private sector jobs in this country.
~ Ben Carson
And Billy, if it'll ease your mind any, I want you to know you've got a standing offer to come work for me when you're done with your military service. All you've got to do is say the word." Now there was a depressing thought, although Billy could see how it might come to that, assuming best-case scenario he made it home with all his limbs and faculties intact.
~ Ben Fountain
It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. It is clear also that thought is not free if all the arguments on one side of a controversy are perpetually presented as attractively as possible, while the arguments on the other side can only be discovered by diligent search.
~ Bertrand Russell
The habit of considering a man's religious, moral and political opinions before appointing him to a post or giving him a job is the modern form of persecution.
~ Bertrand Russell
It is necessary for the average citizen, if he wishes to make a living, to avoid incurring the hostility of certain big men. And these big men have an outlook - religious, moral, and political - with which they expect their employees to agree, at least outwardly.
~ Bertrand Russell
Men would be chosen for jobs on account of fitness to do the work, not because they flattered the irrational dogmas of those in power.
~ Bertrand Russell
And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California.
~ Meg Whitman
With so many part-time people on - and not on - the job, corporate America has started to feel like it's on a permanent maternity leave. Colleagues are an amorphous, free-floating army of rotating waifs whose voicemails are clogged with plaintive requests from their own offices for missing information.
~ Tina Brown
Green jobs - those are jobs that feel like new economy jobs; they do require some training.
~ Hanna Rosin
The majority of the new jobs being created require higher skills, more education.
~ Elaine Chao