Quotes About Miserable Jobs

#1. There's a common misconception that work is necessary. You will meet people working at miserable jobs. They tell you they are "making a living". No, they're not. They're dying, frittering away their fast-extinguishing lives doing things which are, at best, meaningless and, at worst, harmful.

Adrian Tan

#2. In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static routine of tradition continues.

Joseph Jastrow

#3. Baseball was my refuge. When I came on the field, I did my job, and did the best I could and focused on that. Then I went home and I was miserable. That was pretty much my routine every day.?

Joey Votto

#4. If "best years ahead" is the answer, then "things stupid people say" is the question.

Gena Showalter

#5. I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell as many books as I have.

James Frey

#6. It sounds obvious, but many people endure working at jobs that make them miserable - the only reason they go to work is for the money. And guess what? They never make enough money to get ahead.

Wes Moss

#7. It's hard to say that my twenties were the most miserable time in my life or that my first wife drove me crazy or that I hated the job that I had. You can say all of those things. But for the most part, people manage to have a good time when they're that age.

Frank Stella

#8. Is it the damned fool, who, at that dark moment, laughs courage right into you.

Jack Kerouac

#9. I think actors who know their job know that's how you do it. You don't show up and make people miserable. That poor grip who's standing there, he just wants to feed his family. He doesn't need to hear about your psychosis on life and love and death.

Charlize Theron

#10. Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck in those miserable day jobs writing reviews. Will somebody help them, please?

David Ives

#11. The man persisted. "No, no, no. It was so funny. What software did you use? - apparently in the belief that the software had built-in humor generation.

David A. Price

#12. Ish #211 Your child is your parental obligation, not friend.

Regina Griffin

#13. Focusing on a person's positive attributes is an incredible way to give love.

Denise Coates

#14. I think a lot of business students chase money and then they burn out. They have early retirements, not because they want to retire and chill ... But because they hate their job and they are miserable. I don't chase money.

Tyra Banks

#15. If you work in Chicago in the improv scene, anyone is happy for you if you get a job.

Steven Yeun

#16. I'm done walking through fire for you, High! ... I'm done not because I'm done but because there's nothing left of me to burn. You have it all. You've always had it all! I gave up everything so you can have it all! Please! God! Leave me to my nothing.

Kristen Ashley

#17. A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn't involve measurement.

Patrick Lencioni

#18. A lot of people realize "I don't have to work in this job that I'm miserable at every year, or every day, and I don't have to live in, for example, New York City where it's super expensive and if I live somewhere else that is less expensive and could pursue my passion like, I can afford to do that."

Tony Hsieh

#19. The secret to happiness is to be working at your passion. If you want to be miserable, lead a desperate life like everybody else where they drag their asses to work everyday because they hate their job.

Yvon Chouinard

#20. Huh. Programming. Debugging. It wasn't Lincoln's favorite, but it beat archiving and compressing. At least it was a problem to solve. And it would only be for a few months, maybe less.

Rainbow Rowell

#21. I've been on jobs where there's that one actor who is just a miserable, miserable no-good, dirty bastard, and it just turns the whole process sour.

Joe Pantoliano

#22. When Rioch came to Millwall we were depressed and miserable. He's done a brilliant job of turning it all around. Now we're miserable and depressed.

Danny Baker

#23. As the U.S., much of Europe, and the U.K. shift toward the political right, the rhetoric grows more insular, defensive, and protective.

Samantha Harvey

#24. I mean . . . I don't know. I don't know what I want to do, or who I want to be, or where I want to live. I don't know. I like reading about adventure, sure, but I also like doing it from the safety of home. But what is home, besides a quilt-covered bed? Where is it?

Stephanie Perkins

#25. You know, no matter how cool some guys think they are, when it comes to some girls, it's like they lose their mind. They start saying and doing really stupid stuff

Julie Hockley

#26. We also have people dying longer, we are able to keep people alive without much quality of life in many cases. We haven't done a great job of making healthspan match up with lifespan, which is both miserable and unbelievably costly - and frightening.

Ken Dychtwald

#27. I'm a sample of Jesus. I'm a super being.

Benny Hinn