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“To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences and they can just be rich and famous. Their job is to write. Some really don't realize that. And you can't write unless you read.”

Thinking Writing Jobs Realizing Rich Agents

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“I see the job of directing as being one of creating the right atmosphere, creating an environment where people can realize their full potential.”

People Jobs Realizing Environment Creating Atmosphere Full Potential

Author:Joe Wright

“You just realize that you have to be committed to this thing in this kind of world that we're in the more your support group dwindles and you start seeing your peers buying houses and getting corporate jobs. So that can be discouraging.”

World Kind Jobs House Realizing Support Seeing Groups Committed Corporate Buying Peers Discouraging Support Groups Buying A House

Author:J. Robbins

“I slowly came to realize that this job of being an actor, you spend most of your time looking for work. That is your job. Your job is auditioning. You spend very little of your time actually working.”

Littles Jobs Actors Realizing Looking For Work

Author:Nathan Fillion

“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 unemployed, poverty-stricken white man must be made to realize that he is in the very same boat with the Negro. Together, they could exert massive pressure on the government to get jobs for all. Together, they could form a grand alliance. Together, they could merge all people for the good of all.”

People Men Made Government Together Jobs Form Realizing White Poverty Pressure Boat Massive White Man Alliances Unemployed

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The great thing about acting is the longer you do it, the more you realize that all those realities are inside you. No matter how crazy they are, you can pretend that they are a part of you. The great thing about this job is you get to play with every aspect of your id and who you are.”

Matter Play Reality Jobs Realizing Acting Crazy Aspect Who You Are Great Things

Author:Matthew Lillard

“I started to get so many letters from unlikely people; a single mum going, "I watch your show, I'm not into survival, but I hold down four jobs and I get it when you say it's about persistence and putting a positive attitude into things during difficult times." That for me was a great liberator to realize that the show isn't about me running around, jumping off stuff and flexing muscles, it's about inspiring people. That makes me really happy.”

“Job training empowers people to realize their dreams and improve their lives.”

People Dream Jobs Realizing Training Empowering Job Training

Author:Sylvia Mathews Burwell

“I have had the rich satisfaction of knowing and working with many openly gay and lesbian Americans, and I have come to realize that "gay" is an artificial category when it comes to measuring a man or woman's on-the-job performance or commitment to shared goals. It says little about the person. Our differences and prejudices pale next to our historic challenge.”

Men Littles Persons Jobs Next Goal Realizing Challenges Differences Knowing Rich Gay Commitment Performances Prejudice Satisfaction Categories Artificial Pale Historic Measuring

Author:Alan K. Simpson

“17,000 children starve on this planet every single day. That fact alone should blow any conscious person out of their chair. You know, my mother used to say that a woman’s most important job is taking care of her children and her home. I laughed at that when I was younger, but I don’t laugh at it anymore. I just realize now that every child on the planet is one of our children, and the earth itself is our home.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.”

Inspirational Jobs Realizing Honest Folks Decent

Book:Five plays

Source: Five plays

“American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.”

Jobs Politics Realizing Wealth Numbers Economy Labor Function Increase Rate Liberalism

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“I studied business in school, so I worked for Chanel in marketing. And I also worked part-time in an office. So I had office jobs. And then I realized I needed to get the hell out of there, just realizing there was no fulfillment.”

School Jobs Realizing Hell Needed Office Marketing I Realized Fulfillment Part Time Office Jobs

Author:Stephanie Szostak

“People never realize how much work impacts there self esteem and sense of purpose until they leave a job.”

People Self Jobs Purpose Realizing Self Esteem Impact Esteem

Author:Rob Payne

“Do you realize that the Bush administration has now produced more gay marriages than jobs?”

Jobs Realizing Gay Administration Gay Marriage

Author:Jay Leno