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"What we do with our lives every day, whether at school, a desk job, or keeping the home in order, is our most basic opportunity to glorify God. That's what your role in His story looks like day in and day out. Instead of waiting to be offered a new role, play the current one well."
"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it."
"Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs."
"The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open."
"A leader's job is to develop committed followers. Bad leaders destroy their followers' sense of commitment."
"Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt."
"Your curse is that you have chosen a form that requires endless study .... It means you have to read, you have to observe, you have to think, so that when you turn your imagination on, it has the fuel to do its job."
"Get on yo job little man this ain't Saturday"
"Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children."
"The most important question to ask on the job is not 'What am I getting?' The most important question to ask on the job is 'What am I becoming?'"
"I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave."
"You, me...we own this country. Politicians are employees of ours....And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go."
"Never give up searching for the job that you’re passionate about. Try to find the job you’d have if you were independently rich. Forget about the pay. When you’re associating with the people that you love, doing what you love, it doesn’t get any better than that."
"The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo."
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
"I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star."
"As a Black woman filmmaker I feel that’s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning I’m interested in the lives of Black folk as the subject. Not the predicate, not the tangent.[These stories] deserve to be told. Not as sociology, not as spectacle, not as a singular event that happens every so often, but regularly and purposefully as truth and as art on an ongoing basis, as do the stories of all the women you love."
"Most people never feel secure because they are always worried that they will lose their job, lose the money they already have, lose their spouse, lose their health, and so on. The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way, that you are increasing the caliber of who you are and that you are valuable to your company, your friends, and your family."
"Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the job that we have, and the people who are in our lives. It's about seeing how we react to all these things. It's seeing our emotions and thoughts just as they are right now, in this very moment, in this very room, on this very seat. It's about not trying to make them go away, not trying to become better than we are, but just seeing clearly with precision and gentleness."
"Are you ready to fight for good jobs and and a solid level playing field? Are you ready to prove to another generation of Americans that we can build a better country and a newer world? Joe Biden is ready. Barack Obama is ready. I am ready. You're ready."
