“A presidential debate is a job interview. And voters look for certain traits in people applying to be president.” PeopleLooksJobsCertainPresidentDebatePresidentialInterviewsVotersTraitsJob InterviewPresidential Debate Author:Ron Fournier
“You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you changed your mind. Now you're certain. You're so... sloppy. You don't know anything. The book, the math, the dates, the writing, all that stuff you decided with your buddies, it's just evidence. It doesn't finish the job. It doesn't prove anything.” ThinkingKnowsWritingMindBookRunningJobsCertainStuffChangedProveEvidenceDecidedLogicMathCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningBuddyOntologySloppyYou Changed Author:David Auburn
“It's funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it's time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn't mean it's a good idea.” PeopleMeanDoeIdeasAgeFunnyJobsCertainCollegeMassAssumingThoughtfulGood IdeasGraduatesBloggingCollege Graduates Author:Steve Pavlina
“I heavily overinvest in recruiting. I have an understanding with certain search firms that if you find someone great, don't wait until there's a job opening - send him to me.” IfsJobsCertainWaitingUnderstandingOpeningFirm Author:Kevin P. Ryan
“In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.” KnowsMenWellsEnoughFactsHomeRunningJobsPastCertainKnow HowTakenBrokenMen And WomenWoodsDecadesMagazinesAssumptionShopsArticlesTransfersSuggesting Author:Robert Briffault
“People are born in a certain place, and in a certain society. I don't mean to sound like a determinist, but to think we're entirely free to do whatever we want betrays a certain class perspective. For most people who have to work for a living, and work at jobs under conditions they may not like, it's just not simple when it comes to freedom.” PeopleThinkingWantMayMeanJobsCertainSoundBornSimpleClassConditionsPerspectiveBetrayalBetray Author:Thomas Frank
“I know certain roles are important to me. I know that I really want to play them. I know I can do a good job. But I can never put into words why.” KnowsWantI CanImportantPlayJobsCertainCan DoRolesGood Job Author:Jennifer Lawrence
“The Coen brothers said something that helped me, "When you put the book down, you have a certain feeling, a certain understanding. That's what they need to feel when they walk out of the theater. That's your job, to literally put this book on film, you won't make a good movie, you'll do no service to anyone.” NeedsFeelsSaidBookFeelingsJobsFilmCertainUnderstandingWalksBrotherTheaterGood MovieCoen Brothers Author:Angelina Jolie
“Certain jobs [films] are for the business really, because they get an audience, they get a global audience. Certain jobs are as an artist. If I can keep moving forward and strike some form of balance between them two, then I'm going to feel content.” IfsFeelsI CanTwoJobsFilmMovingFormArtistCertainAudienceBalanceStrikesMoving ForwardKeep MovingKeep Moving Forward Author:Jack O'Connell
“The reason that gets me is, and the greatest part of my job and what I do, is the humanity of it and there's certain moments where that really cuts through.” ReasonMomentsJobsCertainHumanityCutting Author:Kylie Minogue
“With Lenin it was always a substantial commitment. I always have a certain admiration for people who are aware that somebody has to do the job. What I hate about these liberal, pseudo-left, beautiful soul academics is that they are doing what they are doing fully aware that somebody else will do the job for them.” PeopleSoulJobsBeautifulCertainHateLeftCommitmentI HateAdmirationPseudoBeautiful Soul Author:Slavoj Žižek
“It might be a good idea to have government totally by the people - that each person takes four or five hours of the week doing some kind of government job - in other words, along with what you do you also help maintain the government so no one person has total control - I might go down to an office for four hours and do whatever I'm capable of doing - writing out receipts for food distribution in a certain area - but it's all actually a monstrous secretarial job and that's all I think it should be.” PeopleThinkingShouldWritingKindPersonsIdeasHelpingGovernmentMightJobsCertainHoursFiveFourWeekOfficeCapableAreasGood IdeasDistributionMonstrousReceiptsGovernment Jobs Author:Grace Slick
“All through time in Apple products, even from our very first ones, that's how he [Steve Jobs] looked at the world, that you don't really want a piece of technology, a certain type of chip. What you want is a solution to a problem in life, some cause, some issue that you want in your life that'll help you. And it's how do you make that almost one step - say it and it happens.” WorldWantFirstsHelpingProblemHappensJobsCertainCausesStepsTechnologyIssuesPiecesProductsTypeSolutionsWhat You WantApplesChipsRough TimesSolution To A ProblemProblems In Life Author:Steve Wozniak
“As a songwriter, you're never off - for me, anyway. There's a certain mentality of people that decide, "Oh, we're going to try to write songs from this time of the day to this time of the day." Almost treat it like a real job. I can't do that. I've never been able to write songs like that. You never know when something creative is going to hit you, or emotion or whatever. You can take it, and turn it into something that makes somebody feel something. I love that about my job.” PeopleKnowsFeelsWritingTryingI CanRealAbleJobsCertainSongTurnsEmotionCreativeTreatsMentalitySongwritersReal Jobs Author:Kenny Chesney
“There's a lot of unrest. There are a lot of people who are unhappy. I don't want to say I'm their hero, but a lot of people have said that... It's like this in every job, I think. There's certain people who are afforded privileges and maybe, maybe don't deserve them.” PeopleThinkingWantSaidJobsCertainHeroDeservePrivilegeUnhappyUnrest Author:CM Punk
“What I do feel the modern child lacks, when compared with the earlier generation, is concentration, and the sheer dogged grit to carry a long job through. ... Helping children to face up to a certain amount of drudgery, cheerfully and energetically, is one of the biggest problems that teachers, in these days of ubiquitous entertainment, have to face in our schools.” FeelsChildrenLongHelpingProblemSchoolJobsFacesCertainEducationFocusTeacherGenerationsModernAmountEntertainmentThese DaysConcentrationSheerGritDrudgeryHelping Children Book:Chronicles of Fairacre, Comprising Village School, Village Diary, and Storm in the Village Source: Chronicles of Fairacre, Comprising Village School, Village Diary, and Storm in the Village
“There are probably only a certain number of people who can understand or tolerate how long a job will take and what demands it puts on you. And why should they? It breeds a strange kind of selfishness immersing yourself in a character for so long.” PeopleShouldKindLongCharacterJobsCertainNumbersStrangeDemandSelfishnessTolerateImmersing Yourself Author:Dominic Cooper
“On the surface, it's really easy to dismiss certain characters, but sometimes you find that the most interesting parts are disappointingly shallow. It's your job as an actress to pull that person apart, and work out why they act the way that they do.” WayPersonsSometimesCharacterJobsCertainEasyInterestingWork OutSurfaceActressesShallowMost Interesting Author:Jessica Brown Findlay
“Anybody who was in the military or a military family has a certain sensitivity to the separation. Everyone knows military wives have the hardest jobs. I was born into one. When I think back to those days, I didn't appreciate it then.” ThinkingKnowsJobsCertainBornWifeMilitaryAppreciateSeparationHardestSensitivityHardest JobMilitary Family Author:Lester Holt