Home / Topics / Jobs Quotes

Jobs Quotes

Browse 13757 quotes about Jobs.

Jobs Quotes

“You and I must realize that the English language is filled with words that, in addition to their literal meanings, convey distinct emotional intensity. For example, if you develop a habit of saying you 'hate' things - you 'hate' your hair; you 'hate' your job; you 'hate' having to do something - do you think this raises the intensity of your negative emotional states more than if you use a phrase like 'I prefer something else'?”

Source: Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial

“The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.”

Use Jobs Language Poet

Author:William Carlos Williams

“Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose.”

Jobs Purpose Language Worst Programming Programming Languages

Author:Fred Brooks

“There are 80 jobs in which women earn more than men - positions like financial analyst, speech-language pathologist, radiation therapist, library worker, biological technician, motion picture projectionist.”

Men Jobs Language Position Speech Workers Library Financial Radiation Therapists Analysts Motion Pictures Technicians

Author:Warren Farrell

“The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.”

Book Whole Jobs Language Morality Pure Bible Perfection Regard Simplicity Noble Scripture Comparison Exceed Sublimity

Author:Alexander Pope

“In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome.”

Ideas Jobs Language Bible Rome Sublime Greece Psalms Heathen

Author:Isaac Watts

“To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly laid out on a table and hanging on a wall, intriguing in their technological complexity and with their stainless steel highly polished--until they set to work on the job for which they were originally designed. Then all of a sudden my reaction changes from "How shiny and beautiful they all are!" to "Get that damned thing out of my mouth!”

Source: Whose Bible Is It?: A Short History of the Scriptures