Quotes About Doing Your Job

#1. Being an actress has something in common with being a housewife. They both look terribly easy to someone who hasn't done them. And the easier it looks, probably the better you are doing your job.

Glenda Jackson

#2. I always thought, from day one, that winning races was just doing your job.

Ron Dennis

#3. 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

#4. I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

Ally Sheedy

#5. Doing your job requires different modes, and you can't just be stuck in one mode where you're always the shrill outsider screaming at everybody.

Joaquin Castro

#6. As an actress I feel that if you start to impose your own inhibitions, then you are not doing your job.

Sienna Miller

#7. Don't expect a pat on the back for merely doing your job, but know that you'll get one for doing it exceptionally well.

Lea Salonga

#8. Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and listen to the radio. It is a soothing way of doing your job.

Paul Theroux

#9. If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

Harold S. Geneen

#10. We are going to understand all about the difference between people and pieces of paper in a file, and the difference between doing your job and getting jobbed ...

Richard Bachman

#11. When you have fans who are hassling you the entire game and you ignore them, they respect you because their job is to try and distract you. And if they don't distract you, that means you're focused on doing your job. And who knows, by the end, sometimes you even win them over.

Robert Griffin III

#12. There are people like me!...

That you are afraid of me!?...

This is ain't a problem.. people like me collect money... you don't do something correctly or you aren't doing your job properly... I am here to punish ya.

Deyth Banger

#13. Every character lives in ever actor and if you're doing your job right, you're just accessing that part of your fantasy life. I can kill someone just as quickly as I can have sex with someone. You can switch that instinct, no matter what - you can pretend anything.

Matthew Lillard

#14. If you don't feel you're the best, then you shouldn't be doing your job. No one else cares if you don't care about yourself.

Donovan McNabb

#15. You take an educated gamble. If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you're not doing your job.

James Sinegal

#16. As a quarterback, obviously, you're going to be put in the forefront whether you like it or not, and if you're not then you're not doing your job.

Robert Griffin III

#17. Life is so simple when you're just doing your job.

Jeanette Winterson

#18. If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.

Nigel Kennedy

#19. To be seen to be human, provided you're doing your job at the same time, is definitely not a negative, not at all.

Charles Kennedy

#20. Creativity is good and whatever. But if the children don't know how to read, I don't care how creative you are. You're not doing your job.

Michelle Rhee

#21. Are you doing work worth doing, or are you just doing your job?

Seth Godin

#22. You were just doing your job, she assured him. And then she thought just how powerful that sentiment was, how far down a nasty road that could take a person, shuffling along and simply doing their job.

Hugh Howey

#23. Let the dogs bark, the wolves howl, the lightnings flash and the crows caw, you continue doing your job!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#24. True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#25. Reporters listen, photographers look. If you are doing your job seriously as a photojournalist, your sight must be the primary sense that you use at all times.

Bill Eppridge

#26. It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.

Jim Butcher

#27. Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it

David Halberstam

#28. Sometimes, when the material is really good, you put expectations on yourself to make it the best possible show. You're not just serving up the regular hash and doing your job and going home.

Peter Dinklage

#29. There is no rule of writing so sacrosanct that a talented writer can't break it with impunity if he knows what he's doing. If you never cross lines or break conventions in your writing, you're not doing your job as an artist.

Michael Dalton

#30. Filmmaking, like sex, isn't a polite enterprise. It involves a lot of mess and the bottom line is, if somebody ain't screaming, you're not doing your job.

James Woods

#31. If someone's not attacking you that means you're not doing your job effectively.

Sean Hannity

#32. Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you're doing your job, with entertainment aspect, with pleasure, with fun. And we decided to try to make it as fun that we do our creativity.

Guy Laliberte

#33. If you're doing your job right, some substantial group of people [is] going to be mad at you.

Paul Krugman

#34. As a journalist, you know you are doing your job properly when you manage to upset rich, powerful and entitled people who are used to getting their own way,and you know you've really got under their skin when they pursue censorship, the avenue of last resort since time immemorial.

Guy Adams

#35. You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.

Michael Novak

#36. For a rich and reasonably successful guy, it is impossible not to enjoy your job; otherwise, why would you spend so much time and effort doing it? I am a great fan of Norilsk, and I like this kind of challenge.

Vladimir Potanin

#37. Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to 'The Today Show,' and I love doing this thing, and they will have to blow me out of here with dynamite before I leave.

Al Roker

#38. Awareness of your surroundings occurs only when sensory inputs violate expectations. When the world is successfully predicted away, awareness is not needed because the brain is doing its job well.

David Eagleman

#39. I love touring, I love doing the live show and it's just like a musical artist, you just keep coming up with material and as long as you're coming up with the material and as long as audiences like it, you just keep doing it, it's your job.

Jeff Dunham

#40. When your boss listens to you carefully, reaches out to help you, and learns from you, it enhances your dignity and pride. Doing so also helps your boss gain empathy for you, to better understand how it feels to be you and what you need to succeed in your job and life.

Robert I. Sutton

#41. It's not just a question of doing what you love for a living. It's about doing what you love with love. Then your life and all be transformed.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#42. If you really want to be a rebel get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no one is doing that.

Mark Driscoll

#43. The Way I See It: If you're worried about getting a job-or keeping one-start a company of your own. By doing so, you'll reap the rewards of your hard work and you'll only get fired if you fail. This is the land of opportunity. Live in it.

Bruce Campbell

#44. You're not doing a good job of selling me this dumb fantasy. I'm not climbing into the back of your van if I have to be Robin. I'm Batman. That's how these things work.

John Kerry

#45. Yeah, you were doing a real bang-up job of it. I particularly liked the way you were bruising his fists with your face. A few minutes more and I'm sure your heart would have been on the attack ... after it was ripped from your chest. (Kat)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#46. It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

Jeremy Piven

#47. When someone tells me what he or she was doing the first time they heard a song of mine, then I've done a good job. If my song becomes about your life, then I'm successful.

Lyle Lovett

#48. Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right).

Oprah Winfrey

#49. You're not going to be immediately good at anything you do. You wouldn't quit on the first day of your new job, so why quit on the first try at doing something else?

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#50. It's a really fulfilling life if you can make your job what you love doing.

Sam Palladio

#51. When you don't have a job (requiring reading) and you are doing your own reading you've got deep psychological questions. As deep as those of a little boy.

Joseph Campbell

#52. So I don't really focus too much on that, and I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself.

Katie Couric

#53. When you're on camera, even though you try to lose yourself in the character, you are aware that there is a camera there capturing every moment of it visually. With doing a voiceover job, you are worried about the sound of it, and you have to make all those visual colors come out with your sound.

Doug Jones

#54. You'll never prove you're too good for a job by not doing your best.

Ethel Merman

#55. If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job.

John Berry

#56. You can't please everyone, and you have to trust your instincts, and you have to do your work and throw yourself in there and trust your instincts, and just trust that you're doing a good job that I can be proud of as well.

Matt Ryan

#57. Gathering wool, are we? (Ewan)
Nay, merely practicing irritating you, and by the looks of your face, I'd say I'm doing a rather remarkable job of it. My mother always says that any effort worth pursuing is worth pursuing well. (Nora)

Kinley MacGregor

#58. The time to realize that you need to transition out of your job is when you know that you've grown out of the role that you were doing before.

Ben Huh

#59. Zen is just a lifestyle, your everyday life. It is doing your best at your job, relationships, health, hobbies, and other daily activities!

Mika.

#60. Wherever you are, that's your stage, your circle of influence. That's your talk show, that's where your power lies ... You have the power to change somebody's life. Everyone has a calling, and your real job in life is to figure out what that is and get about the business of doing it.

Oprah Winfrey

#61. I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it.

Morgan Freeman

#62. The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's 'How are your parents doing?'

Kal Penn

#63. People don't want drama 365 days a year. I'm a sense of relief; it's my job to take your mind off what's bad for that brief second you're in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I'm doing.

Kevin Hart

#64. People tell you keep your job, start the company on the side. If I'm doing it on the side, then probably one of the reasons it fails is because I didn't dedicate enough time to it.

Omar Samra

#65. WHEN YOU'RE IN A PROFESSION WHERE YOUR JOB IS TO KILL people, you start getting creative about doing it.

Chris Kyle

#66. Living your best life is to find out what your calling is. Your real job on Earth is to find out what you were meant to be doing & to find a way to do that thing.

Oprah Winfrey

#67. When you're doing a job, you go out there and do it to the best of your ability and you don't think about awards and things like that.

Michelle Fairley

#68. If your life is in harmony, then your life is full and good, but not overcrowded. If it is overcrowded, you are doing more than is right for you, more than is your job to do in the total scheme of things.

Peace Pilgrim

#69. When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.

Anna Quindlen

#70. Classes and routines are first and foremost intellectual tools for reducing complexity. If they're not making your job simpler, they're not doing their jobs.

Steve McConnell

#71. A practical problem can only be solved by action itself. When your practical problem is how to earn a living, a book on how to make friends and influence people cannot solve it, though it may suggest things to do. Nothing short of the doing solves the problem. It is solved only by earning a living.

Mortimer J. Adler

#72. To do the job which you've got really well; so well that you don't lose your self-respect doing it':

Ray Monk

#73. Leaders are made, not born. You learn to become a leader by doing what other excellent leaders have done before you. You become proficient in your job or skill, and then you become proficient at understanding the motivations and behaviors of other people.

Brian Tracy

#74. More often than not, finding out what you love doing most is about recovering an old love or an inescapable truth that has been silenced for years, even decades. When you come to your dream job, your thing, it is rarely a first encounter. It's usually a reunion.

Jon Acuff

#75. If your not making much money doing what you hate, then break free, follow your dreams, and be a writer for the same rate.

Aaron Lauritsen

#76. You don't really have to do the things that your character is doing. But us actors, we use something called sense memory. I've certainly been drunk before, and part of my job is to recall that without getting drunk.

Jeff Bridges

#77. For an actor, if you're not doing a job, you can't just practice acting. Your instrument is your whole person.

Charlotte Rampling

#78. What's the worst that can happen?" said Teatime. "You'll lose your job. Whereas if you don't, you'll die. So if you look at it like that, we're actually doing you a favor. Oh, do say yes.

Terry Pratchett

#79. For most of human history, there was a ruling class and then there was everybody else. If you were part of everybody else, it wasn't your job to imagine a different future, different ways of doing things. So, imagination is a fairly modern phenomenon.

Jay S. Walker

#80. Mrs. Grey, if a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well. Lift your hips. His eyes glow summer storm gray.

E.L. James

#81. What are the critical success factors of your job? What must you be absolutely, positively excellent at doing to be successful?

Brian Tracy

#82. The one surefire way to get me not to hire you is to send me your resume, especially if you've already got a good job. I won't be interested, because in a couple years, you'll be doing the same thing to me that you're doing to your current boss: looking for a better deal.

Bo Schembechler

#83. Be good to yourself. Listen to your body, to your heart. We're very hard on ourselves, and we're always feeling like we're not doing enough. It's a terribly hard job.

Marcia Wallace

#84. We all have monsters inside of us, and we all have an inner child in us. You always think about your inner child as being the sweet and innocent part of yourself, but it's also the part that's all ego with the mentality of, "If the world isn't pleasing me, it isn't doing its job."

Finn Wittrock

#85. When I was doing the first 'American Pie' movie, I was just happy to have a job. We had a good time, and it was a great group of people, but like any project that I've worked on in my career, you just put your best foot forward, and you're all working together to make the best movie possible.

Thomas Ian Nicholas

#86. No matter what you're doing, try to work at that task like it's your dream job.

Russell Simmons

#87. She released him and Kleitos rubbed his neck, glaring at the two guards outside her door.
"And you do nothing?" he demanded.
Demetrius shrugged. "Our orders are quite specific, Chancellor - " "Never mind!

G.A. Aiken

#88. You are my child. I am your mother." Helen sounded resolute. "I won't apologize for doing my job.

Karin Slaughter

#89. If you don't trust someone to look after your investments, then they shouldn't be doing the job for you.

Murray Walker

#90. Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction.

William Feather

#91. You just have to keep moving forward. You just have to keep doing something, seizing the next opportunity, staying open to trying something new. It doesn't have to fit your vision of the perfect job or the perfect life. Perfect is boring, and dreams are not real. Just . . . DO.

Shonda Rhimes

#92. These were the rare cases in which you gave permission to a stranger to enter your personal space. You trusted the expertise proffered, and enjoyed the promise that the opaque maneuvers of this stranger's hands would yield a result. The tailor, simply by doing his job that day, comforted me.

Teju Cole

#93. You don't have to tell people what they're doing wrong. They already know. Your job is to love them.

Joel Osteen

#94. If Bill O'Reilly is calling you a far-left critic, in my book, no matter what your political persuasion is, that's probably - that probably means you're doing a good job.

Michael Hastings

#95. She licked her parched lips, moistening them, preparing them. "You could lose your job."
"You could be expelled."
"It's unethical."
"Dangerous."
His mouth hovered only millimeters over hers. "We doing this?"
She hooked her arms around his neck. "God yes.

Shelly Bell

#96. I worked on dramas before, I love sinking my teeth into something dramatic or a period piece, but there's something so fun about doing a comedy. When you go to set and your only job is to make people laugh, there's an unbelievable energy on set.

Skylar Astin

#97. Find what you're good at. whatever it is, and become excellent at it. Excellence isn't magic - it's habit, the by product of doing something over and over and striving to be the best at it. Simply figure out what your passion is, and resolve to make excellence your habit.

Lauren Rowe

#98. My advice to women in general: Even if you're doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want - and don't allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge.

Nicki Minaj

#99. The people at home don't care what your problems are. They just know that you're doing that show and you're supposed to do the best you can do. It's not a 9-5 type of job. I've considered myself very lucky to do that kind of work.

Wink Martindale

#100. Doing a job, or even watching a film, can make a difference to your life, but I don't think it ever has an explosive impact where your life will never be the same again. It kind of seeps into your life, and perhaps realise you're a little more vigilant about certain things than you might have been.

Colin Firth