Quotes with on-the-job

Quotes 241 till 260 of 388.

  • Bobby Scott Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Carl Hiaasen Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Jean Cocteau Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Bill Bryson Tell me, did they specify asshole on the job description or did you go on a course?
    Source: A Walk in the Woods
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Bob Graham The American people should be informed about what kind of capability terrorists have inside the United States. They should be informed of why we are not using information to do a more effective job of dealing with terrorists.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Bo Bennett The best way to lose a job is just not to care. When you do not care, it shows in everything you do.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Earl Nightingale The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Bernard Ebbers The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.
    Bernard Ebbers
    Canadian businessman (1941 - 2020)
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  • Campbell Brown The consequences of substandard teaching go far beyond whether college or a good job is in reach. They affect earning potential, with implications throughout a person's life.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Alan Dershowitz The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • Art Linkletter The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes.
    Art Linkletter
    Canadian-born American radio and television personality (1912 - 2010)
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  • Richard W. Livingston The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and his place in the scheme of things.
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  • Orson Welles The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Ben Bernanke The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy to heart, and that sometimes means being unpopular. But we have to do the right thing.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Carolyn Murphy The great thing about having a child is that it keeps you very grounded. When I decided to have my daughter I was ready to have that responsibility and I made it clear to people that I work with that my job was no longer my priority. My daughter is now my priority. She comes first. Period.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Carl Bernstein The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Armstrong Williams The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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