“What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?” IfsFirstsJobsKingsRefuseMinistersPrimePrime Minister Author:Lord Mountbatten
“Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually born to succeed. King George VI was 41 when the abdication of Edward VIII propelled him suddenly and unexpectedly to take up the crown; and Queen Elizabeth II spent her first decade with no inkling thay she herself might one day have to reign. Taken together, these examples suggest that the best preparation for the job of sovereign is not to be prepared for it at all, ir not to be too well prepared for it, or for too long.” FirstsWellsLongHas BeensShowsMightTogetherJobsBornTakenRecordsCenturyExampleKingsOne DaySucceedPreparedDecadesPreparationQueensCrownsBe PreparedSovereignReign20th CenturyMonarchsParadoxicalIrsBritish HistoryQueen ElizabethAbdicationElizabeth Ii Author:David Cannadine
“It's LeBron's team. He's the captain. This is the time in my career where I can fit in. I'm now in the security business. My job is to protect the King, and that's what I'm here to do.” I CanJobsCareersTeamSecurityKingsFitProtectBasketballNbaCaptains Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“You really can't do a remake. I mean, 'King Kong' needed its turn to be remade. It needed an update. But the 'Bad News Bears,' or 'The Shaggy D.A.,' those are classic movies. I think they did a good job of remaking them, but it's just not the same thing. Nobody can top Tatum O'Neal. It just isn't the same.” ThinkingMeanJobsTurnsBearsKingsNeededNewsClassicGood JobBad NewsRemakesUpdatesKing KongClassic Movie Author:Carly Schroeder
“Yes; my brother Bobby used to distribute records at King Records. I had a job there, too, packing records up and shipping them off. But I always wanted to play sessions at Stax, so I figured out a way to do it.” WayPlayWantedJobsUsedRecordsBrotherKingsMy BrotherSessionPackingShipping Author:Donald Dunn
“I don't think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice. What I profess to do is help the oppressed and if I cause a load of discomfort in the white community and the black community, that in my opinion means I'm being effective, because I'm not trying to make them comfortable. The job of an activist is to make people tense and cause social change.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingMeanHelpingJobsSocialCausesBlackCommunityJusticeWhiteOpinionKingsComfortableHarmonyActivistLoadOppressedDrsSocial ChangeDiscomfortTenseBlack CommunityRacial Justice Author:Al Sharpton
“One of the things about Steve Jobs is that he gives us an opportunity to look at the disjuncture between that world and the world he claimed that Apple represented, the "Think different" world of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks and Gandhi.” ThinkingWorldGivingLooksDifferentJobsOpportunityKingsApplesParksLutherDifferent WorldsRosaThink Different Author:Alex Gibney
“Realize that sleeping on a futon when you're 30 is not the worst thing. You know what's worse, sleeping in a king bed next to a wife you're not really in love with but for some reason you married, and you got a couple kids, and you got a job you hate. You'll be laying there fantasizing about sleeping on a futon. There's no risk when you go after a dream. There's a tremendous amount to risk to playing it safe.” KnowsReasonDreamKidsJobsHateNextRealizingSleepWifeRiskWorstAmountCoupleKingsBedSafeMarriedWorst ThingsHate YouSleeping InPlaying It SafeFutonsJobs You Hate Author:Bill Burr
“It's interesting because the Thai king says there's no prostitution in Thailand, it doesn't exist, so the prostitutes don't pay taxes. They can work other jobs if they want and put away money, maybe leave when they're 40.” IfsWantJobsInterestingPayKingsTaxesProstitutionThailandThai Author:Michael Glawogger
“Carry your bag by yourself; carry your umbrella by yourself; open your door by yourself; light your own candle! Do your job by yourself! Don't use others! Don't behave like a king, don't behave like a queen! Be humble!” UseLightJobsDoorsKingsHumbleQueensBehaveBagsCandleBe HumbleUmbrella Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“It is not by whining that one carries out the job of king.” JobsKingsCarrieWhining Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“Nothing will serve you better than a strong work ethic. Nothing. And it's something that you can't teach. You have to be thrown into it, where you're going to sink or swim. It's amazing how self-correcting and how clarifying a good, hard, shitty job can be. Because at the end of the day, any profession I've seen anybody in, when you peer behind the curtains of Oh, wouldn't that be a great job? Wow, what an amazing thing, a philanthropic endeavor! it really just comes down to It's a f**king grind.” EndsSelfHardJobsStrongBehindsTeachKingsEthicsProfessionThe End Of The DayThrownSwimEndeavorWowPeersWork EthicCurtainsGrindAmazing ThingsGreat JobCorrectingPhilanthropicClarifyingSink Or SwimStrong Work Ethic Author:Robert Downey, Jr.
“It's never been my goal to be king of the prom. It's been my goal to do the right thing and get the job done.” DoneJobsGoalKingsRight ThingPromGet The Job Done Author:Gregg Popovich
“King Solomon set out on a course to work and live without reference to God at all. He concluded that without God in the picture, work is empty.- (Ecc. 2:11)... The path to really enjoying your job is to have a warm personal relationship with your Lord and Savior and to make Him the controlling center of each workday.” JobsCoursesEnjoyLordPathKingsEmptyWarmSaviorPersonal RelationshipsWithout GodSolomon Author:Doug Sherman
“The question is, how do you stop the power elite from doing as much damage to you as possible? That comes through movements. It's not our job to take power. You could argue that the most powerful political figure in April of 1968 was Martin Luther King. And we know Johnson was terrified of him. We have to accept that all of the true correctives to American democracy came through these movements that never achieved formal political power and yet frightened the political establishment enough to respond.” KnowsEnoughJobsPoliticalPowerfulAcceptingDemocracyFiguresMovementKingsArguingDamageMost PowerfulFrightenedEstablishmentElitesFormalTerrifiedLutherAprilJohnsonPolitical PowerAmerican Democracy Author:Chris Hedges
“Kate Winslet [for Steve Jobs movie, 2015] is the darling. If you wanna be the king you gotta kill the king. I think Charlotte [Rampling] is the dark horse on this one. No one does classic beauty better than her.” IfsThinkingDoeJobsDarkKingsHorseClassicDarlingKateCharlotteClassic BeautyDark Horse Author:Bun B
“I know my dear brother, President [Barack] Obama, has a bust of Martin King right there in the Oval Office, but the question is are is he going to be true to who that Martin Luther King, Jr., actually is? King was concerned about what? The poor. He was concerned about working people. He was concerned about quality jobs. He was concerned about quality housing. He was concerned about precious babies in Vietnam, the way we ought to be concerned about precious babies in Afghanistan and precious babies in Tel Aviv and precious babies in Gaza.” PeopleKnowsWayJobsPresidentPoorQualityBrotherBabyOughtKingsOfficeConcernedDearBeing TrueBarackAfghanistanVietnamHousingLutherPresident Barack ObamaGazaOvalDear Brother Author:Cornel West
“Will I have to explain to my daughter that her brother is gonna make more money doing the exact same job because he's a man? If they both played sports since they were three years old, they both worked just as hard, but because he's a boy, they're gonna give him more money? Like, how am I gonna explain that to her? In tennis we've had great pioneers that paved the way - including Venus [Williams], who fought so hard for Wimbledon to pay women the same prize money they pay men, and Billie Jean King, who is one of the main reasons Title IX exists.” IfsMenWayGivingYearsHardReasonJobsThreeSportsPayBoysBrotherKingsDaughterIncludingTitlesTennisPrizeMy DaughterThree YearsMore MoneyPioneersVenusThree Year OldsWimbledonPrize Money Author:Serena Williams
“It is the church's job, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King says, to be the conscience of the state, not the chaplain of the state.” StatesJobsChurchKingsConscienceDrsLutherDr Martin Luther KingChaplains Author:Shane Claiborne
“As [Martin Luther] King said, it never cost anybody a dime to integrate the lunch counters. When you start talking about trying to deal with jobs and hunger and things that require investment, then that's really the tough stuff, because everybody wants to do right if it doesn't cost them anything.” IfsWantTryingSaidJobsStuffDealsTalkingKingsCostToughInvestmentHungerLunchLutherIntegratingDimes Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“Dr. [Martin Luther] King led a very historic march here in Washington, D.C. It was a march for jobs and freedom. It was a march to raise expectations that this country could live up to its ideals. I have watched this debate, this conversation [betwin Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump] about bigotry, about racism, I find it all misplaced.” CountryJobsTrumpKingsConversationRacismExpectationsIdealsRaisesClintonDebateMarchBigotryDrsHistoricLutherMisplacedDr Martin Luther King Author:Donna Brazile
“Clearly, there are many places where diesel is king or gas-turbine is king, or IC engines will win, but there are many places in the world where, as we've seen, they just won't do the job. The modern version of the Stirling engine has some very, very attractive characteristics, and we're trying to optimize it for some of those applications.” WorldTryingJobsWinningModernKingsVersionsAttractiveCharacteristicsGasApplicationEnginesPlaces In The WorldDieselTurbines Author:Dean Kamen
“If I may add, for instance, [Martin Luther] King and these others will say that they are fighting for the Negro to have equal job opportunity. How can people, a group of people, such as our people, who own no factories, have equal job opportunities competing against the race that owns the factories?The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories.” PeopleIfsWayWellsMayTwoJobsFightingOpportunityBlackWhiteRaceGroupsKingsEqualAddInstanceBlack PeopleFactoriesCompetingLutherJob Opportunities Author:Malcolm X
“They came to this country they, they were Hungarians, they were Communists from a Communist country. And right now those Hungarian freedom fighters can get jobs that student sit-ins can't get. They can go and sleep and live in hotels that Martin Luther King himself can't live in.They are recognized and respected because they are fighters, not because they are sit-iners or freedom.” CountryJobsSleepStudentsKingsRight NowFighterHotelCommunistLutherFreedom FighterHungarians Author:Malcolm X
“Rather take that moral sense and apply it to the particulars of a job that is going to test those ethical and moral precepts differently than if you're a professor, or a business person, or a dad. And if I were not comfortable with the judicious use of our military to protect the American people, than I shouldn't have run for president. And having said that, I do think that the wisdom of a [Martin Luther] King or a [Mahatma] Gandhi can inform my decisions.” PeopleIfsThinkingPersonsSaidUseRunningJobsPresidentDecisionMoralMilitaryKingsDadProtectComfortableTestsEthicalProfessorsLutherBusiness Person Author:Barack Obama
“I can think about what [Mahatma] Gandhi said or [Martin Luther] King said about violence begetting violence, and still be true to my job by asking myself the question whenever we're confronted with a situation where some may be arguing for military action: Will this actually result in America being safer, or the most lives being saved?” ThinkingMaySaidStillsI CanActionJobsAmericaResultsSituationViolenceMilitaryKingsAskingArguingSavedBeing TrueLutherMilitary Action Author:Barack Obama
“I think one of things that Steve Jobs, in his own funny way, encouraged us to remember with those "Think different" posters of Gandhi and Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King was, "How do you make the world a better place?"” ThinkingWorldWayDifferentJobsRememberKingsParksBetter PlaceLutherPostersRosaThink Different Author:Alex Gibney
“I had no idea what to expect! When the series began, I was new to comics, so I really had to keep my head down and plow forward so that I could learn as much about this new medium as possible. I wanted so much to do a good job and to please Stephen King and all the longtime Dark Tower fans.” IdeasWantedJobsDarkFansKingsPleaseDown AndSeriesMediumsNo IdeaTowersGood JobDark Tower Author:Robin Furth
“My job on The Gunslinger Born was to take Stephen King's novel and transform it into a detailed, seven issue, scene-by-scene story.” StoriesJobsBornNovelIssuesKingsSceneSevenGunslinger Author:Robin Furth
“I believe what Martin Luther King Jr. believed. You remember what the title of the March on Washington was? "Jobs and Freedom." What King understood is that you have to deal with the economic issues as well as the political issues and the civil rights issues.” BelieveWellsJobsRememberPoliticalI BelieveDealsIssuesRightsEconomicKingsUnderstoodCivil RightsTitlesMarchLutherPolitical IssuesEconomic IssuesMarch On Washington Author:Bernie Sanders
“I did a job, [Don King] took money, probably more than he should have. If I was supposed to get $10 million, I was lucky to get $6.5 million. It happens and you can't do much, you decide whether to take it or leave it. King was a promoter, and he was good at it.” IfsShouldHappensJobsMillionsKingsLuckyShould HavePromoters Author:Larry Holmes
“Being a progressive himself, Franklin Roosevelt was talking about the fact that we should provide jobs for everyone who wants one. People do have a right to live in decent housing. They do have a right to education. FDR was preaching this gospel in the '30s, and Dr. Martin Luther King did the same thing in the 1960s with the Poor People's March on Washington. Folks in this country have these rights and it's the job of this country to answer this call.” PeopleWantShouldCountryFactsJobsAnswersPoorTalkingRightsKingsFolksDecentMarchProgressivePreachingDrsPoor PeopleHousingLuther1960sFranklinDr Martin Luther KingMarch On Washington Author:Nina Turner
“If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs - my first was at 15, at Burger King.” IfsWayFirstsWantedJobsBrotherKingsCome UpIncomeMy BrotherPocketsBurgersBurger King Author:Queen Latifah
“People say I am the king of painful shoes. I don't want to create painful shoes, but it is not my job to create something comfortable. I try to make high heels as comfortable as they can be, but my priority is design, beauty and sexiness. I'm not against them, but comfort is not my focus.” PeopleWantTryingJobsFocusDesignKingsComfortComfortableShoesPainfulPrioritiesHeelsHigh HeelsSexiness Author:Christian Louboutin
“If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.” IfsMenEyeJobsSuccessLiteratureCan DoWorkHalfKingsBlindKingdomsCynical Author:Kurt Vonnegut