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Simone de Beauvoir

Richard Nixon

Jean Cocteau

Steve Jobs

Muhammad Ali

Aldo Leopold

Flann O'Brien

To "catch" a husband is an art; to "hold" him is a job.

Simone de Beauvoir

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born — that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. And the way we become leaders is by learning about leadership through life and job experiences, not with university degrees.

The presidency is not an office job. If I only sit in the office in Dar es Salaam I'm not running the country. I visit the country to inspect development programmes, to inspect activities, to see how things are going, how the government agenda is being implemented, what are the teething issues. And some of these problems simply need my simple word. My simple word of do it, then it is done.

You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.

Jack Youngblood

Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.

My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned but not bought.

Margaret Chase Smith

The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.

There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings: Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.

William Goldman

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at a crossroads.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

Dorothy L. Sayers

It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.

Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth.

William E. Simon

The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

What civilians do not understand—and to a writer anyone not a writer is a civilian—is that writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

John Gregory Dunne

A politician will do anything to keep his job-even become a patriot.

William Randolph Hearst

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored by the support of this convention for vice president of the United States. I accept the duty to help lead our nation out of a jobs crisis and back to prosperity — and I know we can do this. I accept the calling of my generation to give our children the America that was given to us, with opportunity for the young and security for the old — and I know that we are ready. Our nominee is sure ready. His whole life has prepared him for this moment — to meet serious challenges in a serious way, without excuses and idle words. After four years of getting the run-around, America needs a turnaround, and the man for the job is Governor Mitt Romney.

The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs.

Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.

My throttle was wide open. I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.