“Whatever job I had, I was always writing like crazy. All I ever liked about offices was being able to type up stories on the computer when no one was looking. I was never paying much attention in meetings because I was usually scribbling bits of my latest stories in the margins of the pad or thinking up names for my characters. This is a problem when you're supposed to be taking minutes of the meeting.” ThinkingWritingCharacterStoriesProblemAbleJobsNamesBitsAttentionCrazyMinutesTypeOfficeComputerMeetingsSupposed To BeMarginsPads Author:J. K. Rowling
“For many of us, work is the one place where we feel appreciated. The things that we long to experience at home - pride in our accomplishments, laughter and fun, relationships that aren't complex - we sometimes experience most often in the office. Bosses applaud us when we do a good job. Co-workers become a kind of family we feel we fit into.” FeelsKindLongSometimesHomeJobsFunPrideFitOfficeLaughterComplexesWorkersAccomplishmentBossGood JobAppreciatedCo Worker Author:Arlie Russell Hochschild
“I don't like having a teaching job - office hours and conferences and committees and bosses and all that - but I tend to enjoy teaching, and I design the course in such a way that there'll be pleasure in that.” WayJobsCoursesEnjoyHoursPleasureTeachingDesignOfficeBossCommitteesConferencesOffice Hours Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“When I gave up my office job and became a full-time professional photographer, my fortunes certainly improved markedly. We moved away from the council estate into our own house and for the first time in my life, I had a little spare money.” FirstsLittlesJobsHouseOfficeFirst TimeMovedFortunePhotographerSparesEstatesCouncilGave UpOffice JobsProfessional PhotographerCouncil Estates Author:Derek Ridgers
“In many ways I think the company's doing quite a good job. If you look at the transition to Office 365 we started when I was there, I'm excited about that and I think the company's doing a great job on that.” IfsThinkingWayLooksJobsCompanyOfficeExcitedTransitionGood JobGreat Job Author:Steve Ballmer
“When the president offered me this job, he told me that if there were situations in which I needed to speak to him or I needed his advice or I needed to ask him a question, that I could go into the Oval Office and I could ask him.” IfsJobsAsksSpeakPresidentSituationAdviceNeededOfficeOval Author:Josh Earnest
“The number of CEOs voluntarily leaving their jobs or being forced out spiked early. Many of those companies will be turning to an interim CEO to take the reins. These temporary leaders are increasingly in demand, according to those who watch corner office trends.” JobsNumbersCompanyLeaderWatchesDemandOfficeLeavingCornersTemporaryTrendsCeoReinsInterim Author:Steve Inskeep
“Basically I was a theatre fanatic. I had a job with Home Box Office as a theatre consultant for a long time.” LongHomeJobsOfficeLong TimeBoxesTheatreFanaticsBox OfficeConsultants Author:Rob Urbinati
“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
“There's obviously instances where I perceive sexism in my job. ... I think that the sort of sexism that I see has been one that's a little bit like a gentler form of sexism, but still a little bit debilitating, which is that when, as a producer and a writer, whether it was at The Office or [at The Mindy Project], if I make a decision, it'll still seem like it's up for debate.” IfsThinkingLittlesHas BeensStillsSeemsJobsFormBitsDecisionOfficeProjectsLittle BitDebateProducersInstancePerceiveSexism Author:Mindy Kaling
“I didn't know why I was coming to this room. Someone just told me to go to Sam Raimi's office. I knew that I uniquely had the comics version of his job, which was to take Spider-Man and put him into the modern day. But I thought, "Maybe he wants to tell me to cut it out." So I come in, it's in his office, and then Stan Lee comes in, and I'd only ever met Stan as a fan, not as a professional. And then they sit us down on a couch, and roll in an AV cart with a TV on it and go, "We're going to show you the first cut of Spider-Man."” KnowsMenWantFirstsShowsJobsRoomsCuttingFansModernTvsMetsOfficeVersionsSpidersCouchesCartsModern DaySpider Man Author:Brian Michael Bendis
“We think that life is about get the girl, get the guy, get the car, get the job, get the house, get the kids, get the better job, get the better car, get the better house, get the promotion, get the office in the corner, get the kids on their way, get the grandkids, get the retirement watch, get the cruise tickets, get the illness, and get the heck out. That's it. That's a good life. But life has nothing to do with any of that. That is not our purpose in living. That is not the Agenda of the Soul.” ThinkingWaySoulKidsJobsLife IsPurposeGuyGirlHouseWatchesCarOfficeIllnessCornersAgendasRetirementGood LifeTicketsPromotionCruiseBetter JobsGrandkids Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“The position of EU commissioner for economic and monetary affairs could be combined with the office of Euro Group chairman. That job would be a great challenge for anyone who assumed it. On the one hand, he would have to make proposals. On the other hand, he would have to negotiate compromises with his European counterparts.” HandsWould BeJobsChallengesGroupsEconomicPositionOfficeAffairCompromiseProposalChairmanMonetaryEuroCounterpartsCommissioners Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“I have a great job writing for “The Office,” but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I’ll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean.” WayWritingMeanPersonsDreamJobsRoomsTelevisionHugeOne DayOfficeExcitingOscarsGreat JobEmmys Author:Mindy Kaling
“I mean, let's take the average spouse. You know, you show up in an employer's, you know, office, and it's shown that you've changed jobs every two years. Well, to many employers that could be viewed as a red flag. But the truth is, is that you've made those moves because you're serving your country, and each time you've found a career, and you've been able to provide for your family, and you've continued to volunteer, and on and on and on.” KnowsYearsWellsMeanMadeTwoCountryShowsAbleJobsMovingFoundCareersChangedTruth IsOfficeRedAverageOur FamilyTwo YearsServingFlagsVolunteerSpouseEmployersRed FlagsYou've Changed Author:Michelle Obama
“If you have got high-ranking officials reaching down five levels in the bureaucracy to drag an analyst up to their office to berate them and threaten their jobs because they don't like the conclusions about an intelligence matter, that, in my view, is dangerous.” IfsMatterJobsLevelsViewsFiveDangerousOfficeConclusionOfficialsReachingDragBureaucracyAnalystsRanking Author:Christopher Dodd
“The Black public sector middle class teachers, policeman, firemen, and post office workers, those jobs have been on the decline but there hasn't been a corresponding increase in the private sector. What is especially painful is government policy bailed out the banks without making them make reinvestments for rebuilding. The result is 53-million Americans are food insecure, 50-million Americans are in poverty, 44 million are on food stamps, 26 million are looking for a job.” Has BeensGovernmentJobsBlackResultsClassPovertyMillionsTeacherMiddlePolicyOfficeIncreaseWorkersPainfulPostsMiddle ClassDeclineInsecureStampsPolicemenPrivate SectorCorrespondingRebuildingFiremanPost OfficePublic SectorFood StampsGovernment PolicyLooking For A Job Author:Jesse Jackson
“One of the things that you come pretty early on to understand in this job, and you start figuring out even during the course of the campaign, is that there's Barack Obama the person and there's Barack Obama the symbol, or the office holder, or what people are seeing on television, or just a representative of power. And so when people criticize or respond negatively to me, usually they're responding to this character that they're seeing on TV called Barack Obama, or to the office of the presidency and the White House and what that represents.” PeoplePersonsCharacterJobsCoursesHouseWhiteSeeingTelevisionTvsOfficeCampaignsSymbolsBarackCriticizeWhite HouseRepresentativesPresidencyResponding Author:Barack Obama
“I don't know how you do it [working at office]; I would just get up and walk out. That's what I did for pretty much every job I've ever had.” KnowsJobsWalksKnow HowOfficeGet Up Author:Jay Mohr
“If enough Americans determine I could do a better job in public office, and Mrs. Nugent and my beloved family agree, there is no limit what I am willing to do for my country.” IfsCountryEnoughJobsWillingLimitsOfficeAgreeDetermineBelovedBetter JobsPublic OfficeBeloved Family Author:Ted Nugent
“I started treating my career as if it was a guarantee,if things get difficult and things don't work out, I'm not gonna think I have a Plan B, which is grad school, or Plan C, which is an office job. I'm just gonna have a Plan A, a Plan A 2.0, a Plan A 3.0, and that's what I'm going to do. Because entertainment and YouTube are always going to be my Plan A.” IfsThinkingSchoolJobsDifficultCareersPlansOfficeEntertainmentWork OutGuaranteesYoutubeGradPlan BGrad SchoolOffice Jobs Author:Lilly Singh
“Every American at some point has got to make the connection between their own hopes and dreams and who is elected to office. It's essential. It's very easy to pull the covers up over your head and say, "I can't handle it. Too much." But we just have to handle it and we have to accept that it's our job. Each of us. Nobody is going to take care of it.” I CanDreamCareJobsEasyAcceptingToo MuchEssentialsOfficeConnectionsTake CareHandleOver YouHopes And DreamsCover Ups Author:Barbara Boxer
“What Republicans want to do is to put doctors and patients and patients' families back in charge of people's health care rather than having pencil pushers of the government or in some insurance office doing that job.” PeopleWantGovernmentCareJobsRepublicanOfficeDoctorsPatientHealth CarePencilsDoctors And Patients Author:Jim Sensenbrenner
“I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office. I'm a huge supporter of on-site child care. You need much more sensitivity in the workplace to the challenges young women go through in trying to do two very difficult jobs well.” NeedsTryingWellsChildrenTwoCareJobsYoungParentDifficultChallengesTeacherHugeOfficeDoctorsSiteYoung WomenSensitivitySupporterWorkplaceInfantConferencesAppointmentsTime OffChild CareParent Teacher Conference Author:Hillary Clinton
“I have great respect for the office of the presidency and I really do believe that Donald Trump wants to do a good job.” WantBelieveJobsTrumpOfficePresidencyGood JobGreat Respect Author:Gayle King
“There is much work to do to protect forests from over-timbering and oceans and lakes from over-fishing. We need to encourage and reward companies that create jobs to reduce the carbon footprints of offices and buildings and homes.” NeedsHomeJobsCompanyBuildingProtectOfficeOceanRewardsForestsLakesFishingCarbonFootprintCarbon Footprint Author:Philip Kotler
“We have an almost desperate need for more women to run for office and for more women to really gut it out after they have kids and stay in their jobs and get to high positions in companies. We need women at the top more than ever. We need women's voices there because they are very different than men's voices and they bring a very valuable and necessary point of view to the table.” MenNeedsDifferentRunningKidsJobsVoiceViewsCompanyPositionOfficeTablesValuablePoint Of ViewDesperateGuts Author:Mika Brzezinski
“What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job.” PeopleThinkingLongHas BeensMadeMatterJobsActorsOfficeHollywoodBoxesThink Of YouBox Office Author:Diane Kruger
“Office holders are a self-selected group; you don't get elected if you don't put your name on the ballot. There are many people who would do a great job, but who would never think to run. Find them. Badger them. Get them elected. They might not thank you for it, but a lot of other people will.” PeopleIfsThinkingSelfMightRunningJobsNamesGroupsOfficeThank YouSelectedBallotsGreat JobBadgers Author:John Sununu