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Jobs Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight…
- The Sophists had this idea: Forget this idea of what's true or not—what you want to do is rhetoric; you want to be able to…
- If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they…
- [I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is.
- Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i.e., somebody whose adult job was original and…
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- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.… — Benigno Aquino III
- We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well… — Neil Armstrong
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
- The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
- I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling as I… — Rowan Atkinson
- In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's… — Rowan Atkinson
- I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself.… — David Attenborough
- It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and… — Paul Auster
- My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the… — Dan Aykroyd