c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.
— Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
If everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionary and brilliant. … If you got to spend every day of your life doing what you love, you can’t help but be the best in the world at that. And you get to smile every day for doing so. And you’ll be working at it almost to the exclusion of personal hygiene, and your friends are knocking on your door, saying, “Don’t you need a vacation?!,” and you don’t even know what the word “vacation” means because what you’re doing is what you want to do and a vacation from that is anything but a vacation — that’s the state of mind of somebody who’s doing what others might call visionary and brilliant.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
You know, Piggly Wiggly never could hang on to a night stock manager. Your math skills would be a plus, maybe even your Spanish, and you don't mind staying up late.""Piggly Wiggly, wow. I hadn't thought about that. I'll swing by, pick up an application tomorrow. But if it doesn't pan out maybe ... Never mind, it's a crazy idea.""No, tell me. I want to hear it.""Well, just as a backup plan, I did hear that Sony has an opening. They're, um, they're looking for a rock star. The hours suck, but it's no worse than night stock manager at Pigs. I bet it pays better too."Isabel stopped in her tracks, playfully slapping his arm. "Aidan, that's genius! That's what you should do! I've heard you sing, you can carry a decent tune." She looked him up and down. "With a little work, you can probably pull off the image."He tugged on her arms until she was in his. "Only if you're sure. Only if it's what we want.""Aidan, it's who you are. I've known it since the day we brought that first guitar here. I'd never want to take that away.
— Laura Spinella, Perfect Timing
The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws operate. It is the scientist’s job to find the ways in which these laws can serve the human will. However, it is not the scientist’s job to determine whether a hydrogen bomb should be constructed, whether it should be used, or how it should be used. This responsibility rests with the American people and with their chosen representatives.
— Edward Teller
Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit
It's a rotten job, but somebody's got to do it.
— Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery
Employees go to school for 12 – 18 years merely to impress prospect employers in a 12 – 18 minutes interview.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Degree lets you to the chair of interview, but it cannot provide you job
— Pawan Mehra
School fools a lot of people. Professionally, one thing is not the most that one person can be.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit
Job was comfortless before the speech of Jehovah and is comforted after it. He has been told nothing, but he feels the terrible and tingling atmosphere of something which is too good to be told.
— G.K. Chesterton, G.K.C As M.C.: Being a Collection of Thirty-Seven Introductions
Job tip: If you were the employer, what kind of person would you most desire as an employee? Be that person.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
I want to make a difference. But get a job? I worry that will make the ordinary, like everybody else.
— Claire Messud, The Emperor's Children
At its core, each vocation is a particular, unique instantiation of the father’s summons to the true homeland of the kingdom. The etymological root of the word ‘vocation’ points in this direction. The word is derived from the Latin verb “vocare” – “to call.” Thus, through the son the father calls each one of us home.
— Mark Doherty
When a man's bank balance becomes too small, his woman flees. For a man to do the same, his woman's body — or vagina — has to do the opposite.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I take it that he is more than just a woodcutter.”“No one is just a woodcutter,” replied Terence.“A person's always more than his present occupation.
— Gerald Morris, The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf
Somebody is born. Somebody goes to school. Somebody learns to conform. Somebody types a CV. Somebody gets a job. Somebody follows orders. Somebody gets a golden watch. And then, eventually, Somebody dies. And, a Nobody is buried.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit
A question is a door and an unopened door is just part of the wall and as long as it's standing it's doing its job.
— Brian McGreevy, Hemlock Grove
... In a ROWE* people don't have schedules.They show up when they want.They don't have to be in the office at certain time, or anytime.They just have to get their work done.How they do it ?When they do it ?Where they do it ?It's totally up to them.Meetings & this kind of environments are Optional.What happens ... ?Almost across the board !- Productivity goes up- Worker Engagement goes up- Worker Satisfaction goes up- Turnovers goes down- Autonomy .. Mastery .. Purpose -these are the building blocks of new way of doing things."______________________________________________________________*ROWE: results-only work environment
— Daniel H. Pink
A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit
A job interview is a competition won by those who are qualified the most, and, those who are willing to be payed the least.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To a man, a woman is fun to be with … until she gains weight. To a woman, a man is fun to live with … until he loses his job.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The rich spend their life living
—  the poor spend their life making a living.
This is not his job, I thought, it's his passion.
— Howard Schultz, Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul
12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Torn clothes are funny … until your dad gets fired.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
My job is to know what other people do not know.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
A vagina is an uneducated woman’s diploma.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
People who like their job will give it their best. Those who don't, show it by a poor performance.
— Ellen J. Barrier
Do your job well without expecting any appreciation
—  then you will see that all the appreciation will come onto you just like the summer rains coming onto the thirsty flowers! Just do your job well!
When we perform at our highest level of potential, we are content. Because we have given I best in what we enjoy doing.
— Ellen J. Barrier
Say this one time with me: "Would you like that in a pump or a loafer?"... Good. Now memorize it, because starting tomorrow, the only job that you're going to be able to get is selling SHOES!
— George Huang, Swimming with Sharks
I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they just didn't fit into the needed machinery of the moment. And those needs kept altering.
— Charles Bukowski, Pulp
The primary purpose of going to college isn't to get a great job. The primary purpose of college is to build a strong mind, which leads to greater self-awareness, capability, fulfillment, and service opportunities, which, incidentally, should lead to a better job.
— Sean Covey, The 6 Most Important Decisions You'll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens
For God's sakes, quit worrying about your next job. Just do the best you can at the job you have now, and the offers will come. And when they do, if you have confidence in yourself you don't have to feel that you can't turn it down if it isn't quite right for you because you fear you'll never get another offer. You will. Wait for the right opportunity, and turn down all the rest. It will make all the difference.
— Bo Schembechler, Bo's Lasting Lessons: The Legendary Coach Teaches the Timeless Fundamentals of Leadership
... a practical problem can only be solved by action itself. When your practical problem is how to earn a living, a book on how to make friends and influence people cannot solve it, though it may suggest things to do. Nothing short of the doing solves the problem. It is solved only by earning a living.
— Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
The American College of Sports Medicine found that the productivity of people after exercise was an average of 65 percent higher than those who did not exercise. If I have something that's really bothering me, so much that it almost hurts my head to try to sort it out, I always find the solution in a puddle of sweat! Intense exercise is like taking a magic pill that gives you the ability to solve problems like a superhero.
— Chalene Johnson, PUSH: 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, a Bangin' Body, and the Life You Deserve!
Never leave a job unfinished, unless you are unable to finish it.
— Santonu Kumar Dhar
For the man in the paddock, whose duty is is to sweep up manure,the supreme terror is the possibility of a world without horses. Totell him that it is disgusting to spend one’s life shoveling up hotturds is a piece of imbecility. A man can get to love shit if hislivelihood depends on it, if his happiness is involved.
— Henry Miller
Make no mistake: Your salary is held to the same standards your grades were held to in the educational system, where you couldn't surpass a 100 no matter how hard you worked or how intelligent you were.
— Carlos Roche, How to Turn Your Boss Into Your Employee
We are trained to be employees, but no one said that we have endure a limited salary that barely keeps pace with inflation.
— Carlos Roche
For most of us a job is bread and butter and for most of others its just bread and butter.
— Aniruddha Sastikar
If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
It was his vocation to pleasure as many women as possible, in pursuit of his own pleasure. It was as close to a job as he got.
— Rosanna Leo, Sweet Hell
A religious person without no job is a dead person. (Iigbagbo ti koni ise oku ni. - Yoruba proverb)
— Habeeb Akande
I may forget myself, but you I could never forget.
— Emory R. Frie, Neverland
Have you ever met someone and felt like you’ve known them forever?
— Michelle Madow, Remembrance
Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum wage, because they lose their jobs or fail to find jobs when they enter the labor force. Making it illegal to pay less than a given amount does not make a worker’s productivity worth that amount—and, if it is not, that worker is unlikely to be employed.
— Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
We recruit for attitude and train for skill,
— Atul Gawande
Drilling without thinking has of course been Republican party policy since May 2008. With gas prices soaring to unprecedented heights, that's when the conservative leader Newt Gingrich unveiled the slogan 'Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less'—with an emphasis on the now. The wildly popular campaign was a cry against caution, against study, against measured action. In Gingrich's telling, drilling at home wherever the oil and gas might be—locked in Rocky Mountain shale, in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and deep offshore—was a surefire way to lower the price at the pump, create jobs, and kick Arab ass all at once. In the face of this triple win, caring about the environment was for sissies: as senator Mitch McConnell put it, 'in Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana and Texas, they think oil rigs are pretty'. By the time the infamous 'Drill Baby Drill' Republican national convention rolled around, the party base was in such a frenzy for US-made fossil fuels, they would have bored under the convention floor if someone had brought a big enough drill.
— Naomi Klein
He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions - not so much on account of any natural quality of discretion as because he simply could never think of any questions to ask....On the strength of which he had guaranteed himself regular employment for as long as he cared to live.
— Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from the classic kind in that you can't inherit it, and it can only be rented, not bought or sold.
— Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars
It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.
— David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
The problem with working, I mean not self-employed, is that you have to get up and routinely do something that you do not want to do, plus you get talked down to, ordered around by twats, you know you are better than. In reality, you are no better than a slave, no better than a hamster running on a wheel. You could say the hamster likes to run on the wheel, the hamster runs on the wheel by choice. But do not forget, the hamster is always in a cage, and will never be anything else, but a hamster running on a wheel inside a cage, unless it escapes the cage.
— Robert Black
Funny thing, employment. If you keep doing it, you keep getting paid.
— N.K. Jemisin, The Kingdom of Gods
Everything that we enjoy is a result of someone's hard work. Some work is visible and other work goes unseen, but both are equally important. Some people stop working as soon as they find a job. Regardless of the unemployment statistics, it is hard to find good people to work. Many people don't understand the difference between idle time and leisure time. Idle time amounts to wasting or stealing time; leisure time is earned. Procrastinating amounts to not working. Excellence is not luck; it is the result of a lot of hard work and practice. Hard work and practice make a person better at whatever he is doing.
— Shiv Khera, You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
The good doctor reassured John these were people who put their psychopathy to good use. They lived productive, well-adjusted lives as surgeons, CEOs and ambulance drivers. The light bulb went on. The CSC [Correctional Service of Canada] doesn't have to go through all these gyrations to reprogram anyone, they just have to find every inmate the right job!
— Stephen Reid, A Crowbar in the Buddhist Garden
There's a liberal story that limited opportunities, and barriers, lead to employment problems and criminal records, but then there's another story that has to do with norms, behaviors, and oppositional culture. You can't prove the latter statistically, but it still might be true.' Holzer thinks that both arguments contain truth and that one doesn't preclude the other. Fair enough. Suffice it to say, though, that the evidence supporting structural inequality is compelling. In 2001, a researcher sent out black and white job applicants in Milwaukee, randomly assigning them a criminal record. The researcher concluded that a white man with a criminal record had about the same chance of getting a job as a black man without one. Three years later, researchers produced the same results in New York under more rigorous conditions.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
All governments stress an employment-intensive force of production, but are unwilling to recognize that jobs can also destroy the use-value of free time. They all stress a more objective and complete professional definition of people's needs, but are insensitive to the consequent expropriation of life.
— Ivan Illich, The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies
Employment deprives you of purpose
— Sunday Adelaja
Giving evidence against one's employers was the first step to unemployment.
— Eoin Colfer, The Opal Deception
If he had spent just a little less time wrapped up in his thoughts, he never would have ignored the shadow that crept up on him, with hands made of darkness stretched and at the ready to separate him from his job by the most effective means of unemployment there has ever been.
— Jim Dyar, The Zeus Gambit
The bed is just a decoration in a busy man's bedroom.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.
— Tom Peters
One cannot take a coward on dangerous missions or trust one’s fortune to a fool. How then are cowards and fools to be employed?
— Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite
They taught me in the Army to make plans based upon the other guy's capabilities, and not based upon his stated intentions. And an employer is capable of firing you at any time.
— Stephen  Morrill, How to Start a Home-Based Writing Business, 5th
What the meaning of this period of unemployment is, now.One way to get at that definition is to ask ourselves, “What is this time for?
— Richard N. Bolles, What Color Is Your Parachute? 2012: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
What will you do?" Eva would ask him. "I don't know," he would say. He ruled out law, because he didn't like lawyers, and he ruled out medicine because he couldn't take the sight of blood. "What will you do?" It was only through default that the best professor I ever had became a teacher.
— Mitch Albom from "Tuesdays with Morrie"
Experience”, when no longer a measure of security, becomes what it is now: freely exchangeable currency.
— Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent
Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
The cover letter is all about what you want. Nasty Gal gets so many cover letters that detail a “passion for fashion” and then proceed to talk about how this job will help the applicant pursue her interests, gain more experience, and explore new avenues.If a cover letter starts out like this, I usually end up reading the first couple of sentences before hitting the delete button. Why? Because I don’t care about what a job will do for you and your personal development. I know that sounds harsh, but I don’t know you, so the fact that you want to work for my company does not automatically mean that I have an interest in helping you grow your career. I have a business that is growing by the day, so I want to know what you can do for me. It’s as simple as that.
— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS
A huge number of jobs that are filled are never advertised to the public, or if they are, they’re filled by people who have a connection to the employer.
— Melanie Pinola, LinkedIn In 30 Minutes: How to create a rock-solid LinkedIn profile and build connections that matter
If we agree that the education, employment and retirement continuum is no longer a linear “cradle to grave” construct, then several tools for managing this reality are increasingly proving redundant. Job descriptions used for hiring are one such example. Hiring managers often write these as a reflection of their own experiences, ignoring the fact that we are entering an era where the emphasis should be less on ready competence and more on transferable skills.
— Gyan Nagpal
And so it had been going on week after week. Month after month. That was what was so discouraging, that it went on so endlessly. Hadn't he once believed that it was all over? The worst thing was that it went on. And on, and on, with no end in sight.
— Hans Fallada, Little Man, What Now?
Business: It is all about generating employment not about generating money.
— Bharath Mamidoju
Your success in the job market has nothing to do with the job market itself - instead it has everything to do with you.
— Simon  Gray
In recent years a smaller share of young adults has been employed than at any time since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking such trends in 1948. So it's not surprising that this generation of youthful protesters has a different focus for their grievances: the economy, stupid. But notice the targets they've chosen to demonize. It's all about class, not age. It's 1% versus 99%, not young versus old. Occupy Wall Street, not Occupy Leisure World.
— Pew Research Center, The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown
You can see the people who thought they could come to London, bend over and pick gold off the streets. They’re all lying on benches in Trafalgar Square with hernias and cans of Special Brew.
— Garry Crystal, Leaving London
Each job requires a conscious choice of career path, and a different plan of development.
— Auliq Ice
The Synonyms of Job is Compulsion!!
— M. Azeem Pasha
Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Self-employment killed the weekend.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit
We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit
Most of us are pseudo-scholars...for we are a very large and quite a powerful class, eminent in Church and State, we control the education of the Empire, we lend to the Press such distinction as it consents to receive, and we are a welcome asset at dinner-parties.Pseudo-scholarship is, on its good side, the homage paid by ignorance to learning. It also has an economic side, on which we need not be hard. Most of us must get a job before thirty, or sponge on our relatives, and many jobs can only be got by passing an exam. The pseudo-scholar often does well in examination (real scholars are not much good), and even when he fails he appreciates their inner majesty. They are gateways to employment, they have power to ban and bless. A paper on King Lear may lead somewhere, unlike the rather far-fetched play of the same name. It may be a stepping-stone to the Local Government Board. He does not often put it to himself openly and say, "That's the use of knowing things, they help you to get on." The economic pressure he feels is more often subconscious, and he goes to his exam, merely feeling that a paper on King Lear is a very tempestuous and terrible experience but an intensely real one. ...As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment were contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one be a penny the stupider.
— E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel
One can earn a thousand credentials but remain unemployed.
— Joseph Ohler, Jr.
An employer’s fart is music to his employees’ ears.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online and off. I care about the rich/poor divide and the rise of corporate business.
— Sara Sheridan
The employment equation used to be built on a foundation of two-way loyalty. The world has changed. Today, successful employment relationships can only be sustained on a foundation of two-way honesty
— Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent
Careers increasingly come with a reboot button, and companies that realize this early possess a competitive talent advantage
— Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent
Weekends are life’s gift to those who hate their jobs.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit
We’re all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit
We are not for making shoes, so the shoemakers can have jobs, but so we can wear the shoes.
— Janusz Korwin-Mikke
Just as a CEO could care less about pay equity, the university administrator is unconcerned with how many of her program graduates secure employment of any particular quality.
— Joseph Ohler, Jr.
You may be thinking that your company has a human resources person who will keep you out of trouble. This is a dangerous misconception. Whether your company has a massive Human Resources Department with hundreds of representatives or a small office with just a single representative, these HR reps are not your advocates. They work for the company, not for you.
— Johanna Harris, Use Protection: An Employee's Guide to Advancement in the Workplace
I´ve given you my time. Its all I´ve got to give - its all any man has. And for a pitiful buck and a quarter an hour.
— Charles Bukowski, Factotum
Self-employed people work where they live. Entrepreneurs live where they work.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
An education system is best belittled when the so-called educated gets hired by a company that’s owned by a so-called dropout.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Periods are a period when nature forces prostitutes to go on leave.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Once employed, the employed's friends are reduced to creatures that he only sees when he has a new problem, or, something new to show off.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
School is a factory where the raw material called student is turned into a product called employee.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Literacy makes man a victim of advertising. Education makes him a victim of employment.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To drive a woman away, tell her that you are unemployed. To bore her, tell her that you are single.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Most self-employed people remain slaves to the employed’s working hours.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You know you are capitalism’s ideal puppet (and that education betrayed you) when winning the lottery is your only chance to realizing financial freedom.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If employment really cared about employees, people wouldn’t have to work until retirement comes to their rescue.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If being seen as worthy of employing is the best that school does for the schooled, then school is overrated.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Most employees are smarter than their employers. All employers are braver than their employees.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A promotion is an illusionary solution out of an indebted employee’s pit of debt.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The more civilized people are, the more honorable working hard is to them. As a result, the more civilized we get, the less we live.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Absolute freedom is an illusion. For while an employed man might be free from starvation, he is a slave to his employer's financial aspirations, and, working-hours.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Belonging to the working class is the economy’s punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The office’ is a cemetery of dreams.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Some of today’s slaves sleep on king size beds.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Weekends are an employee’s parole.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Granted, not all uneducated women are prostitutes, and, not all prostitutes are uneducated. However, where building a family is employment, an uneducated woman's womb is her diploma.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Working overtime is an underpaid man’s salvation.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
School programs the schooled to type a CV. Life inspires the unschooled to type a business plan.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Education inspires the educated to think for themselves. Schooled programs the schooled to work for others.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Alcohol is evil … until your loved one gets employed by a brewery.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Retirement is a stage where an employer discards an employee that he cannot exploit further.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Old Age homes are civilization's dumpsites for human beings who it cannot exploit further.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A diploma is a piece of paper that is used to acquire another piece of paper: an employment contract.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If working-hours were natural, then employed men would only get erections between 5 p.m. and 9 a.m. … during the week.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A celebrity's body is an advertiser's canvas.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Employees leave where they work. Employers live where they work.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
To some people, employment is a distraction. To all entertainers, distraction is employment.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The difference between a retiring man and a used condom is that the condom isn’t given a golden watch to inspire the illusion that it still matters to whomever that has just used it.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Playing Solitaire is a non-smoking employee’s smoke break.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
An employee is sheep. His employer is the shepherd. His salary is grass.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
We had these sudden revelations that employment, the daily nine-to-five, was driving us far from our better selves.
— Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End
...It is necessary for the average citizen, if he wishes to make a living, to avoid incurring the hostility of certain big men. And these big men have an outlook - religious, moral, and political - with which they expect their employees to agree, at least outwardly.
— Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays
Although he too was heading to work, Shahid was glad he wasn't dragging himself off to some office job. Shahid's view: anybody who had to wear a suit to work died a little inside, every day.
— John Lanchester, Capital
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
— Plutarch
I believe you are one of the people that can lift the corners of the universe.
— Ann M. Martin
I do not admire greatness that has no substance.
— Mary Balogh, Slightly Dangerous
Why do want to find him so bad?’ I ask after a while, but she’s not listening. I watch her a bitlonger. ‘Why do you want to find him so bad?’ I ask again.She blinks and comes out of her dream. She flicks the band on her wrist. ‘I just do.’ - Ed Skye
— Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon
Many great opportunities are not cheap
—  but some cheap opportunities are so great.
Find Great Ways to Be Happy , Stop Feeling Blue
— Sami Abouzid
You're great. You don't need to be sorry for being who you're. You're a miracle. You're a wonder in this generation. Unchain your true self!
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Arizona is a great place to be a radiation researcher.
— Steven Magee
...the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater also must be the perfection of its cause.
— René Descartes, Principles of Philosophy
If you scrollin and you happen to catch this, just know you’re a poppin ass individual and you’re way too great to deal with anybody bullshit
— Genereux Philip
No great thing comes without a curse.
— Sophocies
Dr. Paul Ekman is a great guy... studying micro-expressions... gestures... and many other facial expression... body movements....
— Deyth Banger
We all have visions both great and small
— Sunday Adelaja
Any parents are as ordinary human beings as others, making them angels or even more is up to their next generation.
— Sandeep Sahajpal
Great relationships do not depend on who you find, they depend on who you are.
— Jeffrey Fry
A great voice is a unique instrument, not to sound like another instrument, but to be played like one.
— Jeffrey Fry
Our Navy is great. Our navy is great. Our people are great... Great.
— Trump
The greatest teaching is restoration of mankind to divine love of God
— Sunday Adelaja
Let Christ’s great commission become yours
— Sunday Adelaja
The great love was displayed for us at cavalry
— Sunday Adelaja
I love really long books because it feels like you are diving into a pool for a very long time.:)
— Lola shub
Great people do not struggle for their position
— Sunday Adelaja
To see great result let your conversations reveals ultimate priority of restoring the kingdom
— Sunday Adelaja
For The Plan Of Redemption To Be Achieve, A Great Purchase Was Done
— Sunday Adelaja
God sees you as a great person
— Sunday Adelaja
You are the way and you are the goal, and there is no distance between you and the goal. You are the seeker and you are the sought; there is no distance between the seeker and the sought. You are the worshipper and you are the worshipped. You are the disciple and you are the master. You are the means and you are the end: this is the great way.
— Osho, Hsin Hsin Ming, the Book of Nothing: Discourses on the Faith Mind of Sosan
Hollow slogans like "Making your country great again" only lead to one result, collapse.
— Paul Levitz, Doctor Fate, Volume 2: Prisoners of the Past
Kelsier rapped lightly on the door, and Dockson strolled over, pulling it open."And he makes his stunning entry!" Kelsier announced, sweeping into the room, throwing back his mistcloak.Dockson snorted, shutting the doors. "You're truly a wonder to behold, Kell. Particularly the soot stains on your knees.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Final Empire
It's great to know that you aren't the only person "odd" in this world... stories stop the time and games help to go more fast... - what more awesome than to have these two abilities?
— Deyth Banger
It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everybody would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.
— Tom Hanks in A League of Their Own
The great ideas you met on your path are the genius sculptors which shape the shape your mind!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Being needed is a great thing. Maybe the great thing.
— Stephen King, End of Watch
It is these big-hearted sons of the soil, no matter what their cast or creed, who will one day weld the contending factions into a composite whole, and make of India a great nation.
— Jim Corbett, The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag
The Gottschalk was a fine weapon."You," I said to it, "are on probation. You'd better impress me."Great. Now I was talking to guns.
— Brandon Sanderson, Firefight
Looper is another great film.
— Deyth Banger
Castle series are great, even James Patterson is out there!
— Deyth Banger
If I saw my father's dead, great grand mother's dead and many other people's dead... So I can see and your's dead, I just see the planet without you. I just feel it, taste it, - it hurts me from this but this is the truth.
— Deyth Banger
That's called business, let's shake hands and .... we just made one great deal.
— Deyth Banger
Saving time is one of the great superpowers you can unlock in the modern era.
— J.R. Rim
Be great in all you do.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Kublai went on as if he had not spoken.“Before you all, in the lands of my enemies, I declare myself great khan of the nation, of the khanates under my brothers, Hulegu and Arik-Boke, of the Chagatai khanate and all others. I declare myself great khan of the Chin lands and the Sung. I have spoken and my word is iron!
— Conn Iggulden, Conqueror
I have forged many things that I believe to be things of great beauty. Yet if God is not a part of them, they are entirely counterfeit and I have been robbed blind by the work of my own hands.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
For us to have great and impressive increase, we need to do than just lying down and wishing for the best. We need to get off the bed, lay demands on ourselves and exert enough pressure, as much as necessary to get the kind increase we need
— Sunday Adelaja
Great men can’t be ruled... The great is the rare, the difficult, the exceptional.
— Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Murderous thieves make their home here." She failed to keep the tremor from her voice. "Absolutely," Jonas replied."Dangerous animals too.""Without a doubt."She slanted a look toward him. "Perfect place for you."He repressed a snort. "Oh, such compliments, your highness. You're going to make me blush.
— Morgan Rhodes
Life is a great lesson so learn it to be great.
— Debasish Mridha
No one ever became great without troubles. Troubles are opportunities for greatness in disguise
— Bien Sufficient
God is great.God is amazing.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Great time is for those who made effort. Better time is for those who made gain.
— Angelo Quiamco
I want to love my living
—  to live great life
Faith precedes all great accomplishments.
— Sunday Adelaja
You hold all the potential for great synchronistic events to come together to transform your life.
— Andrea Goeglein
Laziness is the mother of all bad habits, but ultimately she is a mother and we should respect her
— Shikamaru Nara
Do you know great people are continually quoted while the average always misquote great people?
— Onyi Anyado
Life is great, and without it, you'd be dead.
— Karen Quan, Write like no one is reading
A lot of good days..makes a great life !!Each day is important. Plan & execute it meticulously.
— Manoj Arora, Happiness Unlimited: How to be happy always
Things might not be great, but things would be okay.
— Gillian Flynn
I'm Going To Be Great One Day
— Godfrey Orateng
God sovereignly controls every detail of your life, which should be a great comfort to you.
— Jim George
We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
Work smart, stay informed, never give up, and great things will happen.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
Great companies are formed by great people. It’s not about attracting great people
—  it’s about retaining them.
I took the money and passed the box across the counter and said politely, ‘Your choice of colourreally lacks style.’ I smiled and Beth laughed and the guy asked to see my manager.I got Bert and he leant over the box and looked at the paint and said, ‘Ed was being polite. Yourchoice of colour is shit.
— Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon
A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be modest, but if it challenges your curiosity and brings into play your inventive faculties, and if you solve it by your own means, you may experience the tension and enjoy the triumph of discovery.
— George Pólya, How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
Smart people think. Brave people talk. Great people act.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
Taking him for all and all, I think it will be conceded that Michael Faraday was the greatest experimental philosopher the world has ever seen.
— John Tyndall, Faraday as a Discoverer
Who you are is much greater than who you pretend to be
— doneil buchanan
Go then, there are other worlds than these.
— Stephen King, The Gunslinger
You are a manipulator.I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.
— J.R. Ward, Lover Eternal
We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.
— Kahlil Gibran
It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.
— Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla
I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
There were once two sisterswho were not afriad of the darkbecause the dark was full of the other's voiceacross the room,because even when the night was thickand starlessthey walked home together from the riverseeing who could last the longestwithout turning on her flashlight,not afraidbecause sometimes in the pitch of nightthey'd lie on their backsin the middle of the pathand look up until the stars came backand when they did,they'd reach their arms up to touch themand did.
— Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
Vengeance was one hell of a roommate.
— J.R. Ward, Dark Lover
I am tired of being used, hurt, and cast aside. It is my turn to use. My turn to hurt.
— Marie Lu, The Young Elites
The place is also big enough. We could all live there without killing each other." -Rhage"That depends more on your mouth than any floorplan." -Phury
— J.R. Ward, Dark Lover
A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.
— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
Now it's the dark's turn to be afraid.
— Joseph Delaney, Curse of the Bane
Disappear Here.The syringe fills with blood.You're a beautiful boy and that's all that matters.Wonder if he's for sale.People are afraid to merge. To merge.
— Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero
That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain.
— Ray Bradbury
Fear is like a fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you. It can heat your house.If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. Fear is your friend and your worst enemy.
— Sui Ishida, 東京喰種トーキョーグール:re 1 [Tokyo Guru:re 1]
He was abominable...and the most alluring, tortured soul I'd ever met.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
Desperately struggling, kicking down other people.Stealing the stolen, while repeating your reasons over and over.And even so, you aim for the horizon over the hills.That's why humans are so interesting...
— Yana Toboso
Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
Follow your heart. Just don't get lost.
— Ilsa J. Bick, Draw the Dark
I wasn’t going to argue with you. Why ever would you think that? I never argue."Lucian smiled at her. She was so small, it amazed him she was such a strong person. "Of course you do not argue. What was I thinking? Go to sleep, honey, and allow my poor body to rest.""I’m already asleep. You’re the one gabbing.
— Christine Feehan, Dark Guardian
Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of unhappy people. But those people can fight their unhappiness with society fairly and squarly, and society for its part easily understands and sympathizes with such struggles. My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody.
— Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
She stood slim and proud as some medieval witch princess against dawn.
— L.J. Smith, The Passion
It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage...
— Robert Frost
I see walking bombs on the streetHearts not beating, but ticking
— Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins
You saw me before I saw you. In the airport, that day in August, you had that look in your eyes, as though you wanted something from me, as though you’d wanted it for a long time. No one had ever looked at me like that before, with that kind of intensity. It unsettled me, surprised me, I guess. Those blue, blue eyes, icy blue, looking back at me as if I could warm them up. They’re pretty powerful, you know, those eyes, pretty beautiful, too.
— Lucy Christopher, Stolen: A Letter to My Captor
My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.'I know that. It's on your face, son. Like a scar.'Eddie was fascinated by the idea of duty and ka as something that left a mark, something that might look like decoration to one eye and disfigurement to another. Outside, thunder cracked and lightning flashed.
— Stephen King, The Dark Tower
Think of being curled up and floating in a darkness. Even if you could think, even if you had an imagination, would you ever imagine its opposite, this miraculous world the Asian Taoists call the "Ten Thousand Things"? And if the darkness just got darker? And then you were dead? What would you care? How would you eve know the difference?
— Denis Johnson, Jesus' Son
I love those dark moments in Peanuts. I love that they're in there, that Charles Schulz put the sad lonely bits of himself into the comic. I love the silliness too, the dancing Snoopy strips. The little boy Rerun drawing "basement" comics about Tarzan fighting Daffy Duck in a helicopter. Those are the bits that keep me reading. The funny parts! The fun parts. The silly bits that don't make any sense. And when I get to the sad lonely Peppermint Patty standing in a field wondering why nobody shook hands and said "good game," well, it works because that's not all she was. I try to think that way about everything. That's the kind of person I want to be.
— Joey Comeau, We all got it coming
We may paint our faces. We may fuck around. But pussy-ass bitches here wont be found. My homies stand behind me all the way. My true family and forever we'll stay. Don't fuck with me, cause they got my back. Where do your friends go, when they know you can't hack? Do they stay and help? Fuck no, they run! Back to their mommies while we have our fun. My juggalo family, we don't fuck around. So tell me this now, are you down with the clown?
— Insane Clown Posse
Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.
— May Sarton
She should not remember what it was like to be free.
— Sarah J. Maas, Heir of Fire
I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!
— William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
That, dillop brain, is what getting close to the Darke does. It makes you think only of yourself. It takes you away from people you care about. And now you don't have anyone to talk to and it serves you right.
— Angie Sage, Darke
Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave -The water below is as dark as the grave,And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat -It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat
— Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate.Brown nodded. "I think this is it.
— Stephen King
Holy men tell us life is a mystery.They embrace that concept happily.But some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark.
— Dean Koontz, Darkfall
Don't worry about it
—  only worry about how people like her breed.
The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries of relectless struggle built modern civilization, to entertain the endless doubts that hamper every human enterprise, and to conceive the vast menagerie of boogeymen that trouble every human heart.
— Dean Koontz, The Taking
What happens when the hitcher and the driver are equally murderous?
— Steve Aylett
These were always the weirdest trips for me, when it was midnight or even later, and we pulled up to a dark house, trying to be quiet. Like a robbery in reverse, creeping around to leave something rather than take it.
— Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
All life is in vain, for Death makes a nonsense of pain.
— Gasmaskman
Don't think that your first love has to be your only love.
— Yukiru Sugisaki, D.N.Angel, Vol. 3
Because I'm a monster, like my father before me and his father before him, and so on. There is no help for me.
— Courtney Cole, Of Blood and Bone
Golden Arches' are the gateway to the afterlife.
— Gasmaskman
I find no peace, and all my war is done,I fear and hope; I burn and freeze like ice;I fly above the wind yet can I not arise;And naught I have and all the world I seize on.That looseth nor locketh holdeth me in prison,And holdeth me not, yet can I scape nowise;Nor letteth me live nor die at my devise,And yet of death it giveth none occasion.Without eyen I see, and without tongue I plain;I desire to perish, and yet I ask health;I love another, and thus I hate myself;I feed me in sorrow, and laugh in all my pain.Likewise displeaseth me both death and lifeAnd my delight is causer of this strife.
— Thomas Wyatt, Selected Poems
Water. Like a blanket. Dark. Intoxicating. Cold.
— Shannon Celebi, Driving Off Bridges