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Quotes About Job

That the quality of service you render, plus the quantity, plus the mental attitude in which you render it determines the sort of job you hold and the amount of pay you receive.—NAPOLEON HILL
~ Napoleon Hill
The quality and quantity of the service you render, plus the attitude with which you render it, determine the amount of pay you get and the sort of job you hold.
~ Napoleon Hill
If the professor is not capable of giving a class without preparation, don't attend. People should only teach what they have learned organically, through experience and curiosity…or get another job.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Mine was the only job you could do if you thought of yourself as risk-hating, risk-aware, and highly ignorant.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The benefits of procrastination apply similarly to medical procedures: we saw that procrastination protects you from error as it gives nature a chance to do its job, given the inconvenient fact that nature is less error-prone than scientists.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
few want to jeopardize their jobs and reputation for the sake of change.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
an employee is also a risk-management strategy.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nick got home the first week in December, to find New York still wallowing in its post-Armistice euphoria. Service men were celebrities wherever they went, and nothing was too good for them-especially the ones who were wounded-until it came down to such practical matters as finding housing or a job...It too him awhile to come to the conclusion that all the talk about help for veterans was just that, and anything that was done for him would have to be done by himself.
~ Nathaniel Benchley
Therin lies the paradox of the profession,' Faraday said. 'Those who wish to have the job should not have it...and those who would most refuse to kill are the only ones who should.
~ Neal Shusterman
Therein lies the paradox of the profession, those who wish to have the job should not have it.....and those who most refuse to kill are the only ones who should.
~ Neal Shusterman
Munira Atrushi, like most people in the world, had a job that was perfect in that it was perfectly ordinary. And like most every- one in the world, she didn't hate her job, nor did she love it. Her feelings lingered somewhere near the center.
~ Neal Shusterman
Therein lies the paradox of the profession," Faraday said. "Those who wish to have the job should not have it . . . and those who would most refuse to kill are the only ones who should.
~ Neal Shusterman
When I went to the Yellow Cab Company I passed the Cancer Building and I remembered that there were worse things than looking for a job you didn't want.
~ Charles Bukowski
Now, I thought, pushing my cart along, I have this job. Is this to be it? No wonder men robbed banks. There were too many demeaning jobs. Why the hell wasn't I a superior court judge or a concert pianist? Because it took training and training cost money. But I didn't want to be anything anyhow. And I was certainly succeeding
~ Charles Bukowski
My father didn't drive because he wanted to save gas. He needed the gas to drive to and from his invisible job.
~ Charles Bukowski
In a sense, as much as I disliked it, education helped when you were looking at a menu or for a job, especially when you were looking at a menu.
~ Charles Bukowski
I didn't like the eight hour job. I didn't even like the four hour job, even though I couldn't get one.
~ Charles Bukowski
a complete subnormal idiot. A good guy. wait until the fog came in some night and they sent him back to his lonely closed for a hand job.
~ Charles Bukowski
All right, one of the women said, we know you think you're too good for this job. Too good? Yes, your attitude. You think we didn't notice it? That's when I first learned that it wasn't enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.
~ Charles Bukowski
I had also read somewhere that if a man didn't truly believe or understand what he was espousing, somehow he could do a more convincing job, which gave me a considerable advantage over the teachers.
~ Charles Bukowski
I checked two ads, went to two places and both of the places hired me. The first place smelled like work, so I took the second.
~ Charles Bukowski
You know, sometimes if a man doesn't believe in what he is doing he can do a much more interesting job because he isn't emotionally caught up in his Cause.
~ Charles Bukowski
programming is a job where Lovecraft meets tradecraft, all the time.
~ Charles Stross
For programming is a job where Lovecraft meets tradecraft, all the time.
~ Charles Stross