quotes about Job Titles

last updated: November 28, 2023

Making a living and having a life are not the same thing. Making a living and making a life that's worthwhile are not the same thing. Living the good life and living a good life are not the same thing. A job title doesn't even come close to answering the question. "What do you do?".
-- Robert Fulghum

Source : Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.65, Ivy Books

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“I know that big people don't like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like, How's school? Are you a good boy? Did you say your prayers? but if you ask them did they say their prayers you might be hit on the head.”
“It is the stress that holds the structure up.”
“When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my life, and He does - from that moment forward I have established a personal relationship with God that I have to develop, you know, through Bible reading and prayer, and living my life for him.”
“Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can only be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. Justice requires that we carefully weigh rights and privileges and assure that each member of a community receives his due share. Love does not weigh rights and privileges too carefully because it prompts each to bear the burden of the other.”
“I never want to travel while I'm on vacation anymore. The only vacations I want to take now are ones where I just go and sit somewhere.”

Source : "The Walkmen". Interview With Mike Carriere, pitchfork.com. November 25, 2008.
“Its a mathematical fact that two negatives make a positive so even under adverse circumstances think positively.”
“Look, I really do not care about you. What I care about is the worlds that you bear witness to. You are nothing more than a dog with a video camera strapped on its back. As you walk the streets looking for a place to mate or piss or eat, the camera is on and we will see the world because of you... You carry the camera and we enjoy the world. (On images as autobiography)”
“It's such a tragedy that man endures in killing his brother and his own kind, putting him in jail and insane asylums, letting him lay out in the street.”
“It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country.”
“We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.”