Quotes About Boring Jobs

#1. I see robotic technology getting rid of the dangerous, the dirty, and the just plain boring jobs. Some people say, 'You can't. People won't have anything to do.' But we found things that were a lot easier than backbreaking labor in the sun and the fields. Let people rise to better things.

Rodney Brooks

#2. Most of the men sitting in first class on an airplane have really boring jobs.

Rita Rudner

#3. Avoiding our fears is the #1 reason we stay trapped in old routines, boring jobs, unhealthy habits, dying relationships, and hang onto bad behaviors that get worse the older we get.

Scott Allan

#4. Kids shouting and skidding in the playground with no idea what future Hells awaited them: boring jobs and ruinous mortgages and bad marriages and hair loss and hip replacements and lonely cups of coffee in an empty house and a colostomy bag at the hospital.

Donna Tartt

#5. The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.

Helen Fisher

#6. When we are in groups, when we are surrounded by people who believe what we believe, trust emerges and our very survival and progress goes up.

Simon Sinek

#7. Nursing was a deeply interpersonal profession in which people had to depend on others - doctors, techs, fellow nurses - to do their job well.

Alexandra Robbins

#8. Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly valuable part of mankind.

George Washington

#9. Some girls say they don't feel comfortable in flats, they only feel comfortable in heels; I am not one of those girls.

Gillian Jacobs

#10. The [abortion] excommunication affects all those who commit this crime with knowledge of the penalty attached, and thus includes those accomplices without which the crime would not have been committed.

Pope John Paul II

#11. People can be unreliable and disloyal; possessions can lose their value; jobs that once stimulated you can become boring. But principles remain steady through it all.

Nido R. Qubein

#12. The writing is just a boring job. It's just a horrible job.

Jemaine Clement

#13. Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#14. It's only too easy to idealise a mother's job. We know well that every job has its frustrations and its boring routines and its times of being the last thing anyone would choose to do. Well, why shouldn't the care of babies and children be thought of that way too?

Donald Woods Winnicott

#15. We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free.

Robert Burns

#16. Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.

Hubert Selby Jr.

#17. Being an assistant in a computer lab was the worst job I ever had. It was boring. That was when I was in college.

Chris Carmack

#18. I was too young to care about boring adult jobs. I was still testing out how my heart worked.

Leah Raeder

#19. Thing is, what does a hero look like these days? Muscles and lycra? Life isn't a contest of strength anymore. Jobs, banks, taxes. Boring social reality.

Adam Baker

#20. My mother was Dauntless.

Veronica Roth

#21. She abandoned the garden, and the mums and asters that had trusted her to see them through to the first frost hung their waterlogged heads.

Nicole Krauss