{"quotes":[{"text":"I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'.","author":"Mika Brzezinski","tags":["career","fired","year "],"id":55166,"author_id":"Mika+Brzezinski"},{"text":"The upper management team had informed me that an employee that worked for me was a poor performer and would be terminated soon. This employee was clearly displaying mental health issues that were causing problems in the workplace. When I followed the company procedures and reported this to human resources, their response was to inform me that my contract would not be renewed and I would be immediately fired if anyone complained about me. This was my introduction to how mental health issues are handled in the USA.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["causing","clearly","company","complained","contract","employee","fired","handled","health","human","immediately","inform","informed","introduction","issues","management","mental","performer","poor","problems","procedures","renewed","reported","resources","response","soon","team","terminated","upper","usa","worked","workplace"],"id":68276,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"If you are a lousy teacher, you should be fired.","author":"Geoffrey Canada","tags":["you","fired","lousy "],"id":68902,"author_id":"Geoffrey+Canada"},{"text":"Sometimes God will place a wall on your path to force you to go in another direction.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["acceptance","almighty","attitude","belief","believe","blessings","chance","conflict","courage","creator","destiny","disappointment","divorce","fail","failures","faith","fate","fear","fired","god","hope","job","journey","life-path","life","lose","loss","loss-of-hope","losses","mistakes","optimism","optimistic","path","purpose","religion","wrong-way"],"id":83818,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Get fired, no one will call you a quitter.","author":"Vikrmn","tags":["10-alone","ca-vikram-verma","fired","motivation","quoterian","ten-alone","vikrmn","winning"],"id":110983,"author_id":"Vikrmn"},{"text":"Tracey hurriedly shut the door behind her to prevent the flames that had been licking hungrily at her caboose all the way down the corridor, from following her inside. Then, almost falling into one of the gravity couches, she hurriedly strapped herself into it before punching the emergency release. She hoped the escape system still worked. It did. The explosive dead-bolts fired, shaking the pod loose, dislodging it from the rapidly disintegrating wreck, just about shaking the crap out of her on its bone-jarring way into the great wide open.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["been","corridor","couches","dead-bolts","did","disintegrating","dislidging","down","emergency","escape","explosive","fired","gravity","her","herself","inside","into","licking","loose","open","rapidly","release","shaking","strapped","system","the","then","to","tracey","way","worked","wreck"],"id":126894,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"I get all fired up about aging in America.","author":"Willard Scott","tags":["america","aging","fired "],"id":132476,"author_id":"Willard+Scott"},{"text":"So many amazing opportunities arise when a chapter of our life ends. When we resign from a job that we weren't happy in, or even get fired, it's actually a blessing because a better experience is waiting to happen. It's all about perspective.","author":"Miya Yamanouchi","tags":["fired","job","new-chapter","new-life","new-opportunities","perspective","quitting-your-job","resignation"],"id":138932,"author_id":"Miya+Yamanouchi"},{"text":"You never suffer nearly as much as you imagine you suffer. You never suffer the illnesses you most dread nor the miseries that you fear.","author":"Osho","tags":["bliss","breakup","depresssion","divorce","failure","fired","happiness","pain","suffering"],"id":206736,"author_id":"Osho"},{"text":"Advancement and promotion in Mystic Masonry is not dependent on favor; it cannot be given till it has been earned and the candidate has stored in himself the power to rise, any more than a pistol can be fired till it has been loaded.","author":"Max Heindel","tags":["rise","promotion","fired "],"id":259553,"author_id":"Max+Heindel"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}