Top 100 Quotes About Do Your Job
#1. You better do your job and not lean on me to do it for you.
Jon Taffer
#2. Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can.
Seth Godin
#3. I always thought acting was all lights, camera, action. It's a job; you have to do your job correctly.
Corey Haim
#4. A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward.
Lee Child
#5. Writer's block? A myth. It's your job, show up and do your job.
Caroline James
#6. That's when I first learned that it wasn't enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.
Charles Bukowski
#7. If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.
Rene Auberjonois
#8. Once the whistle goes, it's game on and you shut out the outside factors. If you thought about things, you wouldn't be able to do your job. For 95 minutes you have to totally concentrate and that's what we'll do.
Joleon Lescott
#9. Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job ... and you better do it well!
Christine Lahti
#10. When you're surrounded by brilliant people it really is just easy to do your job.
Mathew Baynton
#11. There are those nights where you are just so emotionally present that you crack yourself open. And it works. And on the nights when you don't have it in you because you're tired or you've got no voice, you still are able to do your job and tell the story that people have come to hear.
Staceyann Chin
#12. Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.
Brian Eno
#13. Monaco is a very special event in its own right, and the atmosphere is quite crazy! As a driver, you have to stay calm and relaxed and try to do your job.
Romain Grosjean
#14. Life will throw everything but the kitchen sink in your path, and then it will throw the kitchen sink. It's your job to avoid the obstacles. If you let them stop you or distract you, you're not doing your job, and failing to do your job will cause regrets that paralyze you more than a bad back.
Andre Agassi
#15. In life, there are a lot of expectations. I see why in the South, especially, there's a simple existence. People, whether they're cowboys or farmers or ranchers, you just get up, you do your job, you have a family, you come home.
Scott Haze
#16. Do your job well, make sure your boss is fully informed, and don't be afraid to ask for help,
Sylvia Ann Hewlett
#17. Rick Tocchet is what I call a warrior. He really brings a lot to a team because he really believes in team play. He's tough on himself and he's tough on the team. As a coach, if you had even one guy like him on your team, you'd have a heckuva chance to do your job well.
Scotty Bowman
#18. Working on a ranch is heaven. It's a hard life, featuring plenty of hard work, and yet at the same time it's an easy life. You're outside all the time. Most days it's just you and the animals. You don't have to deal with people or offices or any petty bullshit. You just do your job.
Chris Kyle
#19. Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.
Cary Grant
#20. I went to work. That was a turning point. When you have to do eight shows a week and your name is on the marquee, no matter what is going on at home or what's on the cover of the newspapers, you've got to do your job.
Marla Maples
#21. You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
Oprah Winfrey
#22. As an actor ... at some point you've got to forget that the crew's there in order to do your job.
Cliff Curtis
#23. Don't keep looking back all the time, you're bound to get depressed. And all right, you can't do your job as well as you used to. But it's the same for all of us, see? We've all got to put our feet up at some point ... you've got to keep looking forward.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#24. When I'm photographing, I think - like any rescue worker who deals with tragedy - you have to have some protective barrier around your heart so you can do your job. You tend to have a delayed reaction to things. I feel things more deeply after I put the camera down.
Carol Guzy
#25. You think it's worth it? That we're over there for the right reasons?"
He shrugged. "Politics is a luxury you can't necessarily afford when you're over there. You just get up, do your job, and embrace the suck.
Wally Lamb
#26. When things are going awry, it's time to put the blinders on and do your job. Just do your job. Don't worry about the other guy, don't worry about the wins and losses, just worry about what the very next play is.
John Riggins
#27. I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.
Frances McDormand
#28. When 20,000 people applaud you as you walk out to do your job, it should be an inspiration.
Jim Brosnan
#29. You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my job is done. Now, it's in the stars. We'll see what happens.' There's nothing I can do to affect it.
Sam Huntington
#30. My philosophy is, 'Show up, shut up, and do your job,' and if you do it to the satisfaction of your director and the public, you're likely to be able to do it again.
Stephen Lang
#31. At the end of the day, you have a job to do, and if you don't do your job, you're going to get fired. You just have to kind of put your head down and do it.
Chris Pine
#32. I think it's undignified if you don't do your job.
Kevin McCarthy
#33. When you're in government, of course, you have protection and you have people who are looking out for your wellbeing, but you can't live in a state of fear. If you do, you're not going to do your job very well and you're going to give yourself high blood pressure, which probably isn't worth it.
Condoleezza Rice
#34. As far as starting or not starting, that means more to some players than others. And if it means more to someone else, I think you should let them start and just go out there and do your job when it's your turn.
Sue Wicks
#35. I think that there's an infinite amount of places where you can stick a camera. There's an infinite amount of choices of what could be going on. There's an infinite amount of places for so many things, so you have to figure out how to do your job.
Darren Aronofsky
#36. If you're not going to do your job, get out of here. Don't mess up my work. This is how I feed my family.
Terrence Howard
#37. Keep your head down, fella. Do your job. Sell the product, write the contracts, negotiate the loans, attend the closings, bank your share and fatten the Keogh accordingly.
John D. MacDonald
#38. Carry your bag by yourself; carry your umbrella by yourself; open your door by yourself; light your own candle! Do your job by yourself! Don't use others! Don't behave like a king, don't behave like a queen! Be humble!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#39. Don't be afraid. Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#40. When you're portraying someone that really existed, there has to be a time as an actress where you leave reality and move into the fantasy world so you can do your job of creating a character.
Bel Powley
#41. So my motto would be, 'Be careful,'cause there's always someone ready to step into your shoes ... and do your job better ... than you ... do it.
David Brent
#42. The key piece of leverage was this promise: follow these instructions and you don't have to think. Do your job and you don't have to be responsible for decisions. Most of all, you don't have to bring your genius to work.
Seth Godin
#43. There lay certitude; there, in the daily round.
All the rest hung on mere threads and trivial contingencies; you couldn't waste
your time on it. The thing was to do your job as it should be done.
Albert Camus
#44. Do your job precisely as if you were your own boss, and sooner or later you will be.
Napoleon Hill
#45. Your self-image should not come from the job you do but from how well you do your job.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#46. Whether you are a stay-at-home mum, or on the red carpet, or in Afghanistan, the better you feel, the better you do your job.
Bobbi Brown
#47. If you have people who are high-performing working for you, it's so easy to do your job. Otherwise, you can't even agree on the time of the meeting or who will bring the coffee.
Douglas Conant
#48. people you work with don't want to hear how hard your life is or how hard you work. They care how well you do your job.
Liz Weber
#49. Whether a general or a seller, what matters is that you do your job with responsibility.
Auliq Ice
#50. If you do your job and assume that everyone else is incompetent, you will seldom be disappointed.
Christopher Moore
#52. There are more things to worry about in the world than a messed-up audition. It's out of your hands. So often, it's not down to acting abilities but something an actor has no control over. So go in, be prepared, do your job, and go and enjoy the rest of your day.
Gregg Sulkin
#53. You really have to do your job as a writer and push people to be as creative as possible. What's nice about the TV medium is you have such a connection to the characters that when somebody dies, the audience cries. They really feel it. You really don't cry when someone dies in a horror movie.
Glen Mazzara
#54. Your job isn't to do your job. Your job is to decide what to do next.
Seth Godin
#55. If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go.
Laozi
#56. One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular you are likely to be.
David Halberstam
#57. Every character is a baby. You can't choose between them. If you can, you didn't do your job. You have to fall in love with every character.
Jim Carrey
#58. You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job and then you have the ones that just hover around.
Sarah Gadon
#59. Every time I hear writers talk about 'the muse,' I just want to bitch-slap them. It's a job. Do your job.
Nora Roberts
#60. Everybody you work with has their own voice, and if you do your job well enough, even their closest friends or their partner of 40 years isn't going to recognise the fingerprints of a ghostwriter.
Michael Robotham
#61. I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.
Bette Davis
#62. You obviously want the results but you must do your job in every at-bat and deal with what every situation dictates.
Anthony Rizzo
#63. When I got into the music business in 1976, there weren't many women on the roster. As a woman, you don't complain; you work twice as hard, and you do your job.
Reba McEntire
#64. You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.
Bob Dylan
#65. You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.
Ethel Waters
#66. When you don't do your job, you get fired. That's your warning.
Mallory Monroe
#67. If you do your job right, no one realizes you did your job, and that's a good thing. You strive for that.
Rob Letterman
#68. Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.
Hugh Jackman
#69. You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.'
Javier Bardem
#70. Forbes was highly motivated by Noynoy's words: ... Therefore in order to make this country better, you don't need grandiose platforms, all you have to do is to do your job, and do it well, rightly, and in accordance with the principled objective.
Wilfrido V. Villacorta
#71. When you are serving volunteer professional military, you take an oath to the Constitution, not to a policy or a president and you swear to obey the lawful orders of the democratically elected government. And so at the end of the day you could table your personal political views and do your job.
Nathaniel Fick
#72. I'm not asking you to do your best. I'm asking you to do your job. -Dagny Taggart
Ayn Rand
#73. Do your job brilliantly and the cream will rise to the top.
Irene Rosenfeld
#74. If I thought about it before I went on, I would have never went on. So, therefore, you don't think about it; you have to talk yourself then into, 'Listen, this is it. This is the gig. Broadway or no Broadway, you've got to do your job.'
Rachel Tucker
#75. It is hard that people don't just let you do your job for them and entertain, and then carry on your own life.
Blake Lively
#76. By the way, if you do your job on behalf of your country, you have meetings where you put your position forward strongly, and the other side does the same thing. And I've had plenty of meetings in my career that really were heated, people yelling at each other.
Richard Holbrooke
#78. Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person.
Elisabeth Rohm
#79. At HubSpot, VORP means evaluating the difference between what you are paid and the least amount the company could pay someone else to do your job. It's a vicious metric, with only one goal, which is to drive the price of labor as low as possible.
Dan Lyons
#80. In today's competitive business world, it is not enough to do your job well; no, to be truly effective, you have to develop skills and strategies for things you'll never have to do, and situations that will never come up.
Rob Payne
#81. We have to back each other up no matter what. Defense, you have to do your job, and offense has to do theirs.
Lawrence Timmons
#82. I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
Ice Cube
#83. I think what's important is to first have your life and then do your job.
Erin Davie
#84. Honestly, you can't manage expectations. It has nothing to do with you. It has everything to do with everyone else. And everyone else is going to have expectations, and all you can do is do your job and do your best and be true to yourself.
Erin Davie
#85. Sometimes, when you work with directors who have done it a lot and are established in the business and know the game, there are all these rules that they have. First-time directors will allow you to come in with choices. They're not so jaded by actors that they're like, 'Ugh, just do your job, man.'
Jake Johnson
#86. I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.
Ernie Pyle
#87. People come into work and actually go home to their families. They want to go there and explore and have a good time, but they also want to go home, which is the best kind of working environment. You go in and do your job, and then you go home and enjoy your life.
Khandi Alexander
#88. How do you lay low but still do your job? Try to stay out there without being out there like Jenny McCarthy?
David Spade
#89. Parenthood is the only career in which the better you do your job, the sooner you're fired.
Lisa Wingate
#90. Would you do your job and not be paid for it? I would do this job, and take on a second job just to make ends meet if nobody paid me. That's how you know you are doing the right thing.
Oprah Winfrey
#91. If you're constantly hamstrung by worry that people aren't going to like it, you can't do your job.
Damon Lindelof
#92. Do your job well without expecting any appreciation; then you will see that all the appreciation will come onto you just like the summer rains coming onto the thirsty flowers! Just do your job well!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#93. Be aware!
Walk with intent!
Do your job with purpose!
Empower your mind in your daily routine
Kym Rock
#94. In Britain, you do your job. When you do an American TV show, there is a sense of being one with the crew, and there is a leadership element, which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain, you just do it, leave and say, 'Thanks.'
Theo James
#95. When you don't have time to do your job, that's a good indication you're playing the wrong game.
Mark Miller
#96. Never feel guilty about reading, it's what you do to do your job.
William Safire
#97. You do your job, you keep your job. Do it well, you get a better job.
Donald J. Trump
#98. You do your job, you get your work done at the rink and then you go home. The big thing is figuring out what you're going to do the rest of the day.
Dany Heatley
#99. Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don't complain. Fight the big fights.
Barbara Walters
#100. I understand why you do your job," my mother said to me. "There's a sense of accomplishment when you take down someone bad. It's like being a police officer or being in the Army or being a mother. You have a responsibility to protect and keep order, and you do whatever it takes to get that done.
Janet Evanovich
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