"Go to lots of interviews, at least one a month even when you don't need a job, to keep in training for when you do."

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Source : Jilly Cooper (2012). “How To Survive From Nine To Five”, p.14, Random House

Jilly Cooper

#Jobs Quotes #Work Quotes #Training Quotes

“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes, and how.”
“My problem painting from my life was I found that you can't paint dirt without romanticising it.”
“Elvis a fight the dying light, Johnny Ray he's always crying.”
“Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to win. Maybe it is more important than other preseason games. It's just that everyone is expecting a lot from me in my first week of professional football. I want to confirm my expectations.”
“Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into--what else?--another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing.”
“I would agree with [criminal suspects being subjected to a DNA test after arrest]...if that's one step closer to finding out who has (committed a crime), then I think we should do it.”
“Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.”
“I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I've gotten older, I think. I noticed that.”

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