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#1

“Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: bigger-picture, career, comedian, equality, farmer, hard-work, income, labor, meaning, money, nurse, occupation, self-worth, value, work, worth, writer

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#2

“Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it’s to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential — as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth.

You’ll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you’re doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you’ll hear about them.

To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.”
― Bill Watterson

tags: career, stay-at-home-moms, work

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#3

“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

tags: business, career, inspirational, self-help, women

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#4

“You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well, and not be always saying, There’s this and there’s that—if I had this or that to do, I might make something of it. No matter what a man is—I wouldn’t give twopence for him’— here Caleb’s mouth looked bitter, and he snapped his fingers— ‘whether he was the prime minister or the rick-thatcher, if he didn’t do well what he undertook to do.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: career, enthusiasm, job, work

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#5

“The home is the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose, and that is to support the ultimate career.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: career, family

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#6

“What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.”
― Barbara Sher, I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It

tags: career

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#7

“Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think "Does this go toward or away from what I want?" Always choose what goes toward what you want.”
― Barbara Sher, I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It

tags: career

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#8

“Friendship is not by force but by choice.
You can never please everybody, he who aims to please everybody will end up pleasing nobody.”
― Stella Oladiran, Winning Formulas

tags: career, christianity, dating, family, life, love, relationships, selp-imrovement, success

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#9

“When one door closes another opens but all too often there is a long hallway in between. ”
― Rick Jarow, The Ultimate Anti-Career Guide: The Inner Path to Finding Your Work in the World

tags: career

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#10

“Be careful what you get good at doin', cuz you'll be doin' it for the rest of your life.”
― Gabrielle Hamilton, Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef

tags: career, talent

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#11

“Find your hidden talents, your hidden potentials, your hidden purposes and convert them into a better business for the benefit of the entire world.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Dream big!: See your bigger picture!

tags: business, busy, career, convert, entire, food-for-thought, gift, gifts, hidden, hide, israelmore-ayivor, obscure, obscurity, potentials, purpose, purposes, talent, talents, work, world

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#12

“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

tags: best-practices, career, curriculum-vitae, cv, employment, jobs, linkedin, linkedin-quotes, networking, quotes, resume, social-networks, tips

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#13

“It is through strength of character, not luck, do we form the predictable path of our future.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: actions, bravery, career, character, character-traits, choose-the-right, confidence, consistency, courage, focus, freedom, future, goal-setting, happiness, honesty, integrity, joy, openess, outcomes, planning, positive-outlooks, positivity, qualities, relationships, self-improvement, staying-positive, stayingpositiveu-com, strength, tipping-point, truth

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#14

“Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.”
― Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

tags: career

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#15

“We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: laziness, opportunity, work

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#16

“Political skills are essential career competencies to get ahead and stay ahead.”
― Bonnie Marcus, The Politics of Promotion: How High-Achieving Women Get Ahead and Stay Ahead

tags: business, career, politics, women, workplace

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#17

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: inspirational

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#18

“You are, and always have been, my dream.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

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#19

“I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours. ”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

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#20

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#21

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

11926 likes

#22

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom

11251 likes

#23

“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.”
― Lady Gaga

tags: love, romance, work

9660 likes

#24

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

8631 likes

#25

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

tags: inspirational

8059 likes

#26

“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.”
― Walt Disney

6250 likes

#27

“You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

tags: love

5601 likes

#28

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: dreams, future, inspirational, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt

6059 likes

#29

“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

tags: monsters

1128 likes

#30

“We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves.”
― Mike Carey & Peter Gross, The Unwritten, Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity

tags: creation, frankenstein, monsters

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