Job Quotes - Page 4

Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired.

Life is all about opportunities

Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.

Take practical and rational steps in maximizing your time

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of 'proving theorems.' Is a writer's job mainly that of 'writing sentences?

In books, coaching sessions, and networking events aimed at the white-collar unemployed, the seeker soon encounters ideologies that are explicitly hostile to any larger, social understanding of his or her situation. The most blatant of these, in my experience, was the EST-like, victim-blaming ideology represented by Patrick Knowles and the books he recommended to his boot-camp participants. Recall that at the boot camp, the timid suggestion that there might be an outer world defined by the market or ruled by CEOs was immediately rebuked; there was only us, the job seekers. It was we who had to change. In a milder form, the constant injunction to maintain a winning attitude carries the same message: look inward, not outward; the world is entirely what you will it to be.

Make your life a meaningful one

Being an entrepreneur is the greatest investment

Your daily product determines how far you go

The main purpose of a church is to bring relevance to people and make sure everyone discovers their calling

To be successful, look for the job you will take if you don't need a job

Professional’ does not necessarily mean that the person so labelled is good or knows what they are doing. In many a case, it merely means that they do whatever that they are a professional at for a living, not as a hobby.

Your calling can never fail you

All professions have some element of theater to them.

You don’t live until you begin to live for keeping

I am not celebrity rich, but I have a job, therefore I can help someone else in need, really, it's not that difficult.

To those of you with your years of service still ahead, the challenge is yours. Stop doubting yourselves. Have the courage to make up your minds and hold your decisions. Refuse to be BOUGHT for a nickel, or a million dollars, or a job!

Teach the people with love and help them abide to biblical principles

Never get discouraged because you got fired

Working for OSHA is a horrible job to have. You have to ignore the whistle blowers and send them illegal letters saying that you cannot find any problems. I have a lot of those fraudulent letters, as I have been through OSHA twice. Once as the utility company employee and once as the utility company subcontractor employee. It is a disgusting & blatently corrupt system.

Our purpose as believers is to make impact wherever we find ourselves

Leaders are not born, but made as a result of hard work

I remember when I was twenty-five,� he said. “No client comes to you when you’re twenty-five. It’s like when you are looking for a doctor. You don’t want the new one that just graduated. You don’t want the very old one, the one shaking, the one twenty years past his prime. You want the seasoned one who has done it so many times he can do it in his sleep though. Same thing with attorneys.

You get more reach and influence when you are being productive

You have to be strategic in your action

With today’s technology, social attitudes and appetite for self-actualisation, we’d ideally look upon our work with a sense of pride, involvement and accomplishment. But we’re rarely given the chance. Instead, we pretend to love our jobs with an almost idiotic zeal, while being secretly exhausted and insulted by them.

Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.

What job do you want to do?And I see them all hanging up before me, like clothes on a rack, all the jobs, tinker, tailor, soldier, and you have to pick one and then you have to pretend for the rest of your life that that's what you are. So they aint no different really from accidents of birth. I didn't know that phrase then but I learnt it later. It's a good phrase...

Leadership’s primary job is to enhance creative capacity by developing collectively effective leadership.

Even his own speeches bored him.

We were created to be productive

Every profession is an island whose inhabitants earn a precarious living by taking in each other’s washing.

A job shouldn’t be a mean of existence but rather, a means of sustenance

Don’t limit yourself, discover new areas of expertise

A young mark twain on the make: "I can't turn in inkstand into Aladdin's lamp.

The greatest dilemma man has to face is figuring out what to do with his time

You kill the biggest possible resource when you waste time

Losing your job is a great blessing in disguise

It might come a time to not follow your passion, so to speak, although it must be prioritized. It may be the case that your passion will serve as the medic, your peace of mind, alongside a higher calling, with your higher calling being the point man.

Time produces quality product

Covert your time for discovery

There is a huge difference between living a Christian life and living a religious life

Think little of yourselves, but do not think too little of your calling.

Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.

We were built differently, locate you own calling and explore it

As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.

When your job is what defines you, when that is the be-all and end-all of your existence, what does a fake smile and a sallow look matter. You have to save your job to keep body and soul together, don't you?

Proper and effective time management is the best way to make it in life

Be proactive

Self-evaluation and assessment should be a major part of our lives as believers

Invest in yourself by discovering your gift

You have to bring relevance to people before teaching them the ways of Christ

Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was—by Time corporate standards—just a little lazy.

Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.

Only you can succeed in converting your values into product can you win the battle against time

Never let a day be your control factor

Your calling is you unique area of expertise

You have to discover the needs of the people you want to minister to

Don’t let the things of the world distract you. Focus on your purpose

It was as if my sould had left my body, floated up to the ceiling, and was watching me destroy my own career with one deliberately assaultive punch. (Dark City Lights)