Top 100 My Job Quotes
#1. You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.
Barack Obama
#2. I don't think God said we should all be soft. My job is to compete, and the best prevails. I will continue to play, and that's the way I'm succeeding in my life. If I hit you by mistake, all I can say is 'I'm sorry,' and I keep moving on.
Dikembe Mutombo
#3. I've personally never wanted to be 'the babe', and refuse to let vanity get in the way of my acting because I don't see my job as being a beautiful person.
Zooey Deschanel
#4. I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job.
Sam Worthington
#5. I have always tried to do my job in a way that I have people give me different points of view.
Colin Powell
#6. My first big gig was as a correspondent on Comedy Central's 'The Daily Show.' My job was to parody TV reporters and political pundits. As a result, I was often invited onto cable news shows as comic relief.
Beth Littleford
#7. I want to change the color of Starbucks from green to red. Whose job was it to say, 'This is going to be green?' I want that to be my job.
Theophilus London
#8. My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.
Moby
#9. My job is to play quarterback, and I'm going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.
Tom Brady
#10. There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent.
John Sexton
#11. I smile and think; This is my job, this is what I do for a living, and its what I've always wanted
Liam Payne
#12. My job is to continue to work very hard, to make sure the American people understand who I am, what I believe in, what I'll fight for. It's why I have been so accessible to the press.
Carly Fiorina
#13. I'm done with my job. It was my job to be the advocate and spokesman for the President of the United States.
Scott McClellan
#14. And here I felt a strange leaping of my heart-God did! My job was to simply follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to him in prayer.
Corrie Ten Boom
#16. My job is to make people dream. Of course, there's a lot of technical stuff behind the scenes and a lot of hard work behind it, but I get to watch people see the result of that hard work and feel that wonder and feel that discovery, all the time.
David Copperfield
#17. Now I can see I was at fault for not being more considerate, but when we were doing the show I didn't think it was my job to be considerate to other people.
Ron Moody
#18. I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job.
Jeff Beck
#19. It's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.
Nikolai Gogol
#20. I love my job. I come every day having a ball.
David Stern
#21. My job as a songwriter is to write good songs.
Greg Brown
#22. My job as an author - at least the way I think of it - is to make a story that is coded and puzzling enough to entice conversation and interpretation, but also to do the opposite: to make some things clear so that it is meaningful in some way, not just a random assemblage of ideas.
Shane Carruth
#23. I've been doing my job for a long time and I never really thought about being an actress or being anything like that. I was always a bit scared as well because of the thing about models becoming an actress and all that. I just never really took it seriously.
Gisele Bundchen
#24. I feel like, in general in my work life, my main goal has been to just be in a situation where I'm not bored with my job. That's been the entire principle. Got my wish.
Ira Glass
#25. I am not interested in telling you what to think. My job is to show you what I think. Period.
Christopher McQuarrie
#26. As the state's chief law enforcement officer, it's my job to see that perpetrators of fraud are brought to justice.
Eric Schneiderman
#27. He is dead, right?"
"Graveyard dead," Bran admitted without a hint of remorse.
"Oh, forgive us," Rick murmured, crossing himself.
"Forgiveness is between him and God," Bran insisted. "It was my job to arrange the meeting."
"Man on Fire," Maddy blurted.
Julie Ann Walker
#28. To write three series a year you only need to commit to writing 10 pages per day, or editing 50 pages of text per day. Plus, writing is my job, and I need to write to eat, so I'm highly motivated to get up and get to work!
Victoria Laurie
#29. My movies are painfully personal, but I'm never trying to let you know how personal they are. It's my job to make it be personal, and also to disguise that so only I or the people who know me know how personal it is. 'Kill Bill' is a very personal movie.
Quentin Tarantino
#30. My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.
Dee Dee Myers
#31. Most of my job and most of what I do is to mentor people. There are a lot of people I work with that I don't have investments in.
Ben Horowitz
#33. I feel like I should go out there and throw a shutout every time I pitch. If we score one [run] and I give up two, then I didn't do my job as far as I'm concerned.
Andy Pettitte
#34. It's my job to kick your ass and tell you not to fall into the sink-hole of sloth and apathy
Nicole Williams
#35. My job is to give my team a chance to win.
Nolan Ryan
#36. I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank.
Sara Sheridan
#37. I came here to do a job, and my job is to hurt people.
CM Punk
#38. I joke that I've never been burdened by having an actual hit. There's something to that. My records have sold enough to make the record company money to help me keep my job. But I've never had anything so firmly ingrained in the mind of the public that I'm expected to repeat it.
Lyle Lovett
#39. Nobody ever tells me to give them a pass or anything. My job is to score goals, and if I don't shoot the puck, I can't score goals.
Alexander Ovechkin
#40. A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job to attend to what it wants to do.
Philip Pullman
#41. Lieutenant-Colonel Yorke told me you Torchwood people always take the extreme view. We have a saying in basic training: "If you hear hoof-beats, you look for horses, and not zebras".'
'You don't know the half of it,' Gwen said. 'In my job, if I hear hoof-beats, I expect to see unicorns.
Peter Anghelides
#42. [Devon:] Stop worrying. That's my job. You're the talent. You're supposed to go do ridiculous things and not think about the consequences until they slap the handcuffs on.
Jessica Lave
#43. Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.
Alex Ferguson
#44. I cannot do my job unless I am fully open to whatever comes. You're almost naked emotionally.
Renee Lawless
#45. I always say if music can't make you cry, you're a hopeless case. I don't cry very much myself, but it's my job to make you cry.
Linda Ronstadt
#46. I lost my job and started painting houses with a friend. The marriage had ended about the same time the career did.
John Dufresne
#47. As long as you let me do my job in public, I'll gladly let you put me in any role you want when the bus door closes.
Lorelei James
#48. I am very good at my job, Miss Rousseau. I was told to find Samantha Rousseau, and I have. The duchess' reasons are her own." He shrugged. "Of course, falconry is a large sport in our country. Perhaps it has something to do with that.
Nichole Chase
#49. When I left Merrill Lynch, one of the things that upset me the most wasn't losing my job. It was not being able to see those people the following day. It was almost like divorcing 40 people.
Erin Duffy
#50. From my point of view, my job is just to work hard for our franchisees, so they can maintain the position they're in, and to grow market share.
Fred DeLuca
#51. A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
Madeleine L'Engle
#52. If I could eat your pussy all day, every day, I'd fuckin' find a way to make it my job." "I moan loudly. He growls and sucks in perfect rhythm.
Belle Aurora
#53. I have nothing bad to say about my job. I love the public, I love to talk, get to know people, everything.
Selena
#54. I love my job, and I'm a lucky girl. I thoroughly enjoy going to work.
Lara Pulver
#55. I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact.
Bill Gates
#58. My job as a writer is simple. Write a book I'm proud of, and present it as a gift to the world.
Some will love it.
Some will hate it.
That's the nature of art.
Kathleen Baldwin
#59. My job is to build that belief in every coach and every owner, that they can put the franchise in my hands and I can take it uphill from there. Obviously, everyone wants to be No. 1, but I'm not going to campaign. I'm just going to go out and show what I've got.
Robert Griffin III
#60. Part of my job being a leader and captain of the team is not just to play well and lead well but find a way to make everybody around me better.
Andrew Whitworth
#61. I think in my job, it's quite difficult to find work on television ... you don't necessarily want to get a profile for something that you don't fully believe in.
Andrew Scott
#62. My job is not to scream and yell, my job is to cheer you and be positive. If you miss four shots, I'm still going to pass to you.
Jason Kidd
#63. I don't know whether to be happy he's made my job so easy," Carter said, "or pissed off that someone that stupid not only roams the earth, but lives in my hometown.
Jana Deleon
#64. I've done my job and I've got the picture out there, and I'm very happy with it.
Michael Caine
#65. I'll always welcome some extra shifts and some extra ice time, and it's my job to be as prepared as possible to play those minutes.
Patrick Kane
#66. I've got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I've got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.
Matthew McConaughey
#67. The best thing about my job is that I work with the best creative people in the business in their fields.
Geoff Johns
#68. The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
Zooey Deschanel
#69. Danger is part of my job. It's always there, but you can't think about it too much otherwise you start to be too slow.
Heikki Kovalainen
#70. Luckily, my job demands constant reading, otherwise I'd have to figure out some other excuse.
Maureen Corrigan
#71. Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#72. It's a funny thing in my job: you remain perpetually lonely in a world where loneliness is the rarest commodity.
Brian W. Aldiss
#73. I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job.
Sara Sheridan
#74. I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.
Brittany Murphy
#75. My job involves a lot of different skills now - I'm as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days - but IA is still my favorite part of the work I do.
Jesse James Garrett
#76. I just feel like people like a little break. Especially at 12:37 at night, you go, like, 'I'm just tired of the snarky right now. I just want to lie down and have somebody make me laugh for an hour. Entertain me, and then I'm going to sleep with a smile on my face.' That's my job; that's what I do.
Jimmy Fallon
#77. All I thought about when I wrote my stories was, "I hope that these comic books would sell so I can keep my job and continue to pay the rent." Never in a million years could I have imagined that it would turn into what it has evolved into nowadays. Never.
Stan Lee
#78. When I know that I have inspired someone to do something great, I know that I have done my job
Andrea L'Artiste
#79. One of the perks of my job as a fashion journalist is the travel opportunity.
Derek Blasberg
#81. My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics.
James Meade
#82. The director of The Sopranos told me that, if I wouldn't gain weight, I would lose my job. I didn't look like the girl who ate pasta all day. This was an extra stimulation to fight my eating problems.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler
#83. I'm the leadoff hitter, it's my job to lead this team. I know people say the way I go is how the Mets go, so I'll do whatever it takes.
Jose Reyes
#84. My job as artistic director at the Brighton digital agency Lighthouse is all about trying to show that digital culture is about more than just tools and gadgets - it's about perceiving the societal transformations being brought about by technology.
Honor Harger
#85. He's stepping up to challenge me. Anybody that challenges me, has got to get dogged out. That's my job.
James Toney
#86. My job is not to get between YOU and God. My job is to put your hand IN God's hand.
David McGee
#87. I feel I have a political duty to reach out to the general public. I want to make films that the people want to see. So if the people want to see Johnny Depp or Tom Cruise, then it is really my job to incorporate them into my films.
Bruno Dumont
#88. ...At your age?' My ass. As long as I feed & support my family, do my job & do it well, I'll act any age as I damn well please.
Gerry Alanguilan
#89. One of the hardest things about my job is that there kind of is no one rulebook that applies to all situations.
Ethan Hawke
#90. I know Mischa, but you know how the politburo runs. If I say one word of this in there, I'll be out of my job the next day.' Remember, Gorbachev only became general secretary after he had kept his mouth shut under three predecessors.
Markus Wolf
#91. I'm an actor - it's not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won't ask for their money back.
Sean Connery
#92. I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job.
Alexis Bledel
#93. I'm working full-time on my job and part time on my fortune. But it won't be long before I'm working full-time on my fortune ... can you imagine what my life will look like?
Jim Rohn
#94. If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director.
Eli Roth
#95. I'm learning more and more to share creativity with the crew and actors. A film crew is more powerful if you listen to them, but it does make my job more tough because I have to listen.
Denis Villeneuve
#96. Don't tell me how to do my job. I don't come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
Billy Connolly
#97. Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living.
Melissa Leo
#98. These near death escapades didn't put me off working in violent situations. If trouble happened then I couldn't stop to think of what might happen. There were some good people about and my job was to protect them from trouble, I couldn't let past experiences put me off.
Stephen Richards
#99. I take my job as a rock and roll sax player very seriously. To do it the way that I must do it, I must be in good condition. The better shape you're in, the harder you can rock.
Clarence Clemons
#100. I am your bodyguard. That's my job. But I'll gladly take tips for my services... or services for my tips...
Masakazu Yamaguchi
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