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“I love to hang out and talk to people on set, especially when I start a new job to get to know them. I like to learn things from the crew so I sit around and ask them technical questions, when I think of them.” — Claudia Black “Every time you get into a new job, new location, you have an amazing opportunity in front of you. You get to play dumb for as long as people will allow you
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to play dumb. You get to ask all the dumb questions, you get to ask multiple people the dumb questions, and you get to make mistakes. That’s how you stand out in the crowd.” — Gary Cohn “Starting a new job is always scary, or at least for me it’s always scary. It’s like the first day of school.” — Sean Maher
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“When you start a new job or a particular journey, you really don’t know what to expect. I mean, you hear about your name being on the bestsellers list, but it doesn’t really mean anything. Like, really, what does that translate to?” — Eric Jerome Dickey “Treat your new job as a Mission, Avoid Procrastination,. Increase Contribution, Exceed
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Expectations.” — Anonymous “I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.” — Anna Freud “Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.” — Felicia Day
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“I still get the jitters every time I start a new job! I love it – makes you feel alive.” — Camille Guaty “My job is never boring. It’s always new, exciting, and challenging, and I get a rush every time I go to work. I’m the luckiest person on the planet to be able to do what I love for a living.” — Jewel Staite “By doing, you become employable.
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It doesn’t matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.” — Kate Reardon “My job is such that I get to run new things every day, and I get to run new markets and new technologies. I enjoy that quite a bit.” — Matt Mullenweg “At my first job as an independent
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researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, they told me I could work on most anything, but not what I knew something about. That is actually very good advice to a young person starting a career because you bring new ideas to the field.” — Mildred S. Dresselhaus “While social media skills were once a ‘nice-to-have,’ accreditation in the space is becoming
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a requirement for many of these job titles. Hiring managers and job seekers are realizing that printing stacks of resumes is turning passe, and social media is rising as the new way of generating real-time networking opportunities.” — Ryan Holmes “I guess my tendency is to think essentially that the new wrinkles won’t do the job if the old major idea didn’t, and so you have to try something
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different. Then maybe they can all be combined in some coherent piece.” — Robert Nozick “On every job you do, you‘ve got to raise your game. My ambition is to just get better and better every job you do – you should never stop trying to get better. You have to teach yourself new things – I don’t think you necessarily learn them from
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other people because you have your own style of doing things, but hopefully you get better.” — Ray Winstone “My job is to have new ideas and take risks every day, so I’m always looking forward to the next thing being done or making the next thing that I haven’t yet gotten to. That’s sort of the constant in my life.” — Miranda July
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“My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it takes up a lot of my life and you don’t want to bring any new distractions into your life.” — Sally Pearson