Top 100 Do The Job Quotes
#1. The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.
Freeman Dyson
#2. I heard this when I was in the Air Force: There's never enough time to do the job right, but always enough time to do it over.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#3. Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them.
Harvey MacKay
#4. Retire? Me? I'll go when they get tired of me at Old Trafford or when I can no longer do the job.
Matt Busby
#5. All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.
George Gershwin
#6. I'd like just to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs, and had a hell of a time.
Buck Owens
#7. When you keep asserting that things are going to work out well, that you can do the job, that you will not have a flat tire, that you will get there on time, by talking up good results you invoke the law of positive effects and good results occur. Things do turn out well.
Norman Vincent Peale
#8. As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.
Pete Townshend
#9. They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#10. If God's purpose for your job is that you serve the human community, then the way to serve God best is to do the job as well as it can be done.
Timothy Keller
#11. Is that what the world asks of me? To blend in? A nurse's outfit or a doctor's would do the job? Is that mandatory to fit into any society, to become a recognizable stereotype?
Cameron Jace
#12. Every case is different, and how we deal with every case is different. But what's the same is we work it, we do the job, and we take the risks the job demands. That's it.
J.D. Robb
#13. Sure, it's fun to chat with people with interesting backgrounds who seem to have a passion for your company. But a job interview is not a friendly chat. You need to determine whether candidates, can they really do the job. So ask them to prove it.
Kathryn Minshew
#14. I'm lucky to get to do the job that I do. I'm really lucky to be able to work in so many different areas of this industry.
Brad Goreski
#15. [Fringe] was just about doing the job, or trying to do the job, properly. It was never a job that you could rest on your laurels. It was a very challenging 43 minutes of television that we were shooting, every week.
John Noble
#16. If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.
Susan George
#17. The biggest mistake was that I didn't hire all the right people. I should have done better reference checks. I should have defined the roles in a much more professional manner. I hired people who just couldn't do the job.
Lillian Vernon
#18. Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#19. It is always better, and far more rewarding, I have observed, to have someone else feel sorry for you, than to do the job yourself.
Alan Bradley
#20. There are times when phrases such as 'totally astonished' just don't do the job. I am, of course, delighted and honoured and, needless to say, flabbergasted.
Terry Pratchett
#21. I'm an active and involved senator. It's very difficult to do the job I want to do and spend as much time as I want with my kids ... It is time for me to be a father first to them, and I realize as I watch them grow and become young adults that I won't be able to get this time back.
Robert J. Garagiola
#22. I would like to become the prime minister, do the job for two years, and then leave and devote myself to public work.
Bidzina Ivanishvili
#23. I am extremely honoured to be the Defence Secretary, and I would not do the job if I did not think that I could make a useful contribution in the role.
Bob Ainsworth
#24. To lessen or destroy sexual pleasure is to lessen temptation; a fallback in case the religious injunctions on veiling and seclusion somehow fail to do the job.
Geraldine Brooks
#25. I lost many a role to actresses who couldn't do the job one-hundredth as good as I could.
Diane Ladd
#26. I believe it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him. Admittedly, one man by himself cannot do the job. However, one man can make a difference. We must live for the future of the human race, and not for our own comfort or success.
Hyman G. Rickover
#27. You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.
Walter Isaacson
#28. Actors are journeymen. We show up for work. We do the job and then we go. What goes on behind the scenes is what goes on behind the scenes.
Joe Mantegna
#29. The only thing that being killed off on 'Graceland' helped me with on 'Game of Thrones' is that it made me available to actually do the job.
Pedro Pascal
#30. I'm engaged: I'm interested in other people. I think that's just as important as knowing how to do the job.
Thomas Schlamme
#31. The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget.
Leonard Boswell
#32. I have always done things that made me happy. I work with people I like, and I do the job I like. I only see people who I like to be with. I have led a wonderful life.
China Machado
#33. Lombardi: There's a whole series of beautiful Mozart and Wagner records, in still very pristine condition. But, never a Bible. Until now. May I ask what condition it's in?
Eli: It's beat up. But it will do the job.
Book Of Eli Movie
#34. Ego had brought him to this point, that stupid refusal to quit the case, to simply do the job according to procedure and pick up the monthly salary transfer. Now look where it had brought him, sitting right next to a crapping great fusion bomb.
Peter F. Hamilton
#35. I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned. I abhor the waste and incompetence of large-scale federal bureaucracies in this administration as well as in others. I do not favor state compulsion when voluntary individual effort can do the job and do it well.
John F. Kennedy
#36. The problem when someone feels burned out, bored, unchallenged, or stifled by their work is not the job itself but rather the environment and playground rules given to them to do the job at hand.
Tony Hsieh
#37. I'd rather get ten men to do the job than to do the job of ten men.
Dwight L. Moody
#38. When you're C.E.O., you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job. And today, they are reunited.
Carlos Ghosn
#39. In every operation there is an above the line and a below the line. Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job.
John Le Carre
#40. What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.
Robert Klein
#41. Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job.
Stephen Ambrose
#42. And put me down right this minute or I'll scream bloody murder, then do the job for real!"
"I already hid all the electrical appliances, and I'm not taking a shower without locking you in the closet first.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#43. Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#44. It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.
Phil Crosby
#45. Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.
C.S. Lewis
#46. As a director, I do very few takes, because I feel like you hire the right actor and they'll do the job right. And the directors that I've worked with and had the best luck with - Jason and [ Steven] Soderbergh and the Coen brothers - all have been that kind of director.
George Clooney
#47. I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't realize how important dishwashers are until you do the job.
Kelsey Grammer
#48. I don't think that there's any Marine out there that says she can't do the job because she's a female.
Loretta Reynolds
#49. I cannot write the way some persons want to read my writings, my thoughts of mind do the job.
Jan Jansen
#50. Parliament has become so undermined it is almost unable to do the job that people expect of it. A glaring example is the budget bill, where there was no thoughtful debate or scrutiny of the legislation.
Sheila Fraser
#51. Option 1: Attempt to back out.
Probable result: Death after painful torture.
Option 2: Do the job and hope.
Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)
Nalini Singh
#53. Do not advise too much: do the job yourself. This is the only advice you can give to others. Do it and others will follow.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#54. Doing a job badly and then getting someone in to sort it out can be much more expensive than getting someone in to do the job properly in the first place.
Sarah Beeny
#55. Summer is the time when it is too hot to do the job that it was too cold to do last winter.
Mark Twain
#56. We can quibble about what precise percentage of performance it accounts for, but no one can seriously question that smartness - the intellectual ability to do the job - is one of the primary determinants of whether someone succeeds or fails at managerial work.
Justin Menkes
#57. Being confident simply means believing that you have what it takes to do the job.
Josh Shipp
#58. School is one of the things that children might hire to do the job. But the job is that children need to feel successful - every
Clayton M Christensen
#59. Somebody had to be Bob Dylan. I guess I was best equipped to do the job.
Bob Dylan
#60. At Starbucks 0 as in any business, in any life - there are so many hectic moments during the day when we are simply trying to do the job, trying to put out the fires, trying to solve any number of small problems, that we often lose sight of what it is we're really here to do.
Howard Schultz
#61. If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.
Red Adair
#62. In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.
Jonathan Swift
#63. The reason I moved to California the first time was to build the Cobra. I thought it was stupid to have a 1918 taxicab engine in what Europeans like to call a performance car when a little American V-8 could do the job better.
Carroll Shelby
#64. History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do not lose the golden hour, make security your first priority, involve the neighbours.
Paddy Ashdown
#65. Maybe you didn't need to know anything special to write a work of fiction. Maybe you didn't need to delve into some kind of life question you knew you'd lived. Perhaps your subconscious would do the job for you, if only you dared to dream.
L.L. Barkat
#66. For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
#67. I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on.
Gary Coleman
#68. Whenever I see an opportunity and a chance to change something, I go at it and I lay out all the facts to everybody. And when I come to this space, I'm going to come with talent, I'm going to come with focus. And I'm going to do the job as competitively as the next guy.
Robert Johnson
#69. We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility.
Judith Martin
#70. You really should not do this job unless you're willing to put in that enormous amount of effort. You should not do the job unless you're willing to take risks. And you shouldn't do the job unless you're willing to lose the job, too.
Anthony A. Williams
#71. But I tell people all the time that if you can do the job, then there's a spot for you. I refuse to believe that there isn't any room in this business. People leave jobs and jobs open up every year. If you can do the job, you'll find your way into the broadcast booth.
Joe Buck
#73. -"Why do men like you do the job you do? It can't be for the medals. And it's certainly not the money."
Stone said nothing.
-"Why then? God and country?"
-"Both simpler and more complex, Mr. President."
-"What then?"
-"So I can look at myself in the mirror.
David Baldacci
#74. We know that the far left and their media allies can't beat us on the issues, so instead they'll distort our records. Let's not do the job for them, OK, Republicans? OK, independents?
Sarah Palin
#75. You ran away and left us to do the job that you could not do.
Nguyen Van Thieu
#76. If there is any way for that man to do the job wrong, he'll do it that way.
Edward A. Murphy Jr.
#77. For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue - that I had to do the job myself.
Anais Nin
#78. I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.
Dan Gilroy
#79. Screenwriting you don't necessarily have to do the job of the costume designer and the prop master and the set designer. It's more just about finding the visuals and finding these characters through dialogue.
Jonathan Tropper
#80. I had to be the next family Alchemist. My sister ... well, she's older, and usually it's the oldest kid who has to do the job. But, she's kind of ... worthless. -Sydney to Rose
Richelle Mead
#81. Parents who do not persevere in rearing their children according to their own convictions are not leaving them 'free' to develop on their own. Instead, they are letting other children and the media, principally television and the movies, do the job.
William V. Shannon
#82. If you're not frightened that you might fail, you'll never do the job. If you're frightened, you'll work like crazy.
Cesar Chavez
#83. I try not to be judgmental. I meditate twice a day. I get some sort of physical exercise. I infuse my life with love. I love what I do, the job.
Jonathan Tucker
#84. I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty much 50 years, and I'm now beginning to learn how to do the job well.
Harlan Ellison
#85. Government is no more than taxpayers hiring the most inefficient organization to do the job.
James Cook
#86. Work together as a family, even if it may be faster and easier to do the job ourselves. Talk with our sons and daughters as we work together.
Robert D. Hales
#87. Do not look around at what everyone else is doing. No one is asking you to be someone else. But the world does need you to be you, because you are the only one who can do the job. Be the person God created you to be. He made you exactly right.
Ellyn Sanna
#88. All you have to do is send a message or somehow establish communication between the mind and body of the sick person. The mind should be in peace, so that the body can do the job. That's all the cure is. The body cures itself. Medicine allows it to get into that space where healing can take place.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#89. Fitness of a top-class squash player is very important, and talent only can't do the job. They have to get training regularly for at least eight hours a day so that they could put some good show in a two-hour match.
Jahangir Khan
#90. You don't need a Superman to save the world
A GoodMan can do the job too...
Try once... Be one
Subhasis Das
#91. ...if you do the job no one wants, you might eventually get the job everybody wants. But you have to be willing to climb the ladder, starting with the bottom rung.
Mark Batterson
#92. There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.
Loretta Lynn
#93. In private matters everyone is equal before the law. In public matters, when it is a question of putting power and responsibility into the hands of one man rather than another, what counts is not rank or money, but the ability to do the job well.
Pericles
#94. My son died from cancer. My granddaughter died from cancer. I have a lot of reasons to think that reality is not a friendly neighborhood. And the stories that I tell distract me, and if I do the job right, they distract people from things that are happening to them that they wish had never happened.
David Morrell
#95. Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#96. America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry Truman
#97. Obama acknowledges his overreach openly every time he argues that he intends to do the job of an obstinate Republican congress.
David Harsanyi
#99. Effective teamwork will not take the place of knowing how to do the job or how to manage the work. Poor teamwork, however, can prevent effective final performance. And it can also prevent team members from gaining satisfaction in being a member of a team and the organization.
Robert Bales
#100. There are plenty of genre-crossover books, films, and games out there, but to do the job well, you have to do more than just smoosh a couple of 'in' concepts together, and hey presto, instant millions.
Jay Kristoff
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