Quotes About Job

#1. The essence of the CEO's job is strategy, not tactics; plan, not do; policy, not implementation.

William Kraut

#2. The problem is a lot of people don't think. The general bloke just goes through life, gets a job, gets married and all that, and that's it.

Paul Simonon

#3. Anything that grows is, by definition, alive. Washington, D.C. was no exception. As a living organism, the Federal Government's number one job was self-preservation. Any threat to its existence had to be dealt with.

Brad Thor

#4. I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was a hard time.

Isabel Allende

#5. One thing both my parents agree on is this: if people are doing something unfair, it's part of our job to remind them what's fair, even if sometimes it still doesn't turn out the way we want it to.

Kelly Jones

#6. Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.

P. J. O'Rourke

#7. There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful.

Dennis Quaid

#8. Falling in love was simple; one had only to yield. Digesting another person, however, and sustaining love, was bloody work, and not a soft job.

Hanif Kureishi

#9. A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing ... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less ... your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living.

Cat Stevens

#10. We invest in early childhood education. We invest additional job training dollars. We make sure that we've got a strong research and development strategy so that we continue to innovate. Rebuilding our infrastructure, which we know will attract businesses.

Barack Obama

#11. I try not to notice the exploded eyeballs or the ruptured tongue bursting through the blackened lips. This job is quite gross enough as it is without adding my own dry heaves to the mess.

Charles Stross

#12. Our job is to become more and more of what we are. The growth of a poet seems to be related to his or her becoming less and less embarrassed about more and more.

Marvin Bell

#13. Yes," said Jalem as he returned to his brushing. "You've obviously done a superb job so far. Tell me, do I need to make an appointment to try and kill Drothe, or is it simply on a first-come, first-served basis? I can never keep kin etiquette straight.

Douglas Hulick

#14. To me, job titles don't matter. Everyone is in sales. It's the only way we stay in business.

Harvey MacKay

#15. My first modeling job in Paris, the photographer said, 'Tue es belle,' which means, 'you are pretty,' and I thought he said, 'Tu es poubelle,' which means, 'you are the trash can.' I burst into tears. He was not happy about that.

Rachel Nichols

#16. It is a great victory if you learn how to survive in today's hard times; it's an even greater victory if you
help someone else survive and find meaningful work.

Richard N. Bolles

#17. And it's true. It's so true. All those years of loving Zik because he never asked about Eve ... I never realized, I never understood. It was his job as my best friend not to ask.
But it was my job as his best friend to tell him without being asked.

Barry Lyga

#18. It is not always the job of people shouting outside impressive buildings to solve problems. It is often the job of the people inside, who have paper, pens, desks, and an impressive view.

Lemony Snicket

#19. You rich kids are all the same. Daddy may give you everything you want but the world won't, and it's my job to teach you that.

Evelyn Smith

#20. Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of actors, and it can't. I've seen a lot of really good actors go into acting schools and then come out a little bit corrupted.

Xavier Samuel

#21. I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.

Jane Siberry

#22. Imagine living in a country where the cops are all people who're cut out for the job.

Michael Dibdin

#23. Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord. Was Father Tom thinking about vengeance now? The possibility amused him. Perhaps the next time he went to confession he would ask him. A priest should understand. That was his job, wasn't it? To understand and forgive? Maybe understanding would come with death.

Julie Garwood

#24. I was very compelled by a woman who would choose this profession. She [Maura Isles] came from a very highly-educated, wealthy background and could have chosen to do a lot of other things, and has this uber-feminine, modern woman mentality, but works this job.

Sasha Alexander

#25. To do this job, you really have to love what you're doing.

Edward Kitsis

#26. Oh my God. For most of eternity, I won't exist. That leaves two options: live forever or destroy the universe. Hm... I may have to quit my day job for this.

Zach Weinersmith

#27. The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.

Fred Wilson

#28. He had almost fallen asleep on top of Elin last night, and counted it among the week's few small achievements that he had finished the job, at least.

Robert Galbraith

#29. I started out doing multiple characters from day one, when I got my fist job in 'Dumbo's Circus.' I'm used to getting in an argument with myself, throwing myself off a cliff, patching myself up and brushing myself off with an arm around my shoulder.

Jim Cummings

#30. I feel like I have to do the best job I can to basically say, "OK, I understand - you have every right to be angry, but anger is not a plan. Here's what I want to do, and that's why I hope you will support me, because I think it will actually improve the lives of Americans."

Hillary Clinton

#31. For several people the challenge with the dream isn't bread & butter but the luxury.

Santosh Avvannavar

#32. After quitting my job with Sea Rock, I became a Mukta Arts flunky.

Ronit Roy

#33. I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

Michael Bloomberg

#34. The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L

Oswald Chambers

#35. Sometimes I don't feel like an actor. Sometimes I speak about it like it was another job, and then I go, 'Wait a minute - I am one!'

Michael Keaton

#36. Strike noticed that, in spite of Duffield's air of disorientation and distress, he had made a good job of applying his eyeliner.

Robert Galbraith

#37. I could never do a job that entailed complicating people's lives

Frank Healy

#38. There are two sides to being pigeonholed. There's, 'Oh, no, I'm going to be Chandler for the rest of my life,' but there's also the fact that getting to play Chandler opened up doors to me. It's now my job to find things that shake it up a little bit.

Matthew Perry

#39. Peter used to say that an artist's job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You make sense out of senseless facts. You puzzle together bits of everything. You shuffle and reorganize. Collage. Montage. Assemble.

Chuck Palahniuk

#40. A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.

Levon Helm

#41. It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.

Walter Cronkite

#42. As Gansey led the way out, Noah said to Ronan, "I know why you're mad."
Ronan sneered at him, but his pulse heaved. "Tell me then, prophet."
Noah said, "It's not my job to tell other people's secrets.

Maggie Stiefvater

#43. I've always known from the beginning of my acting career that you only get an acting job if you've got something to learn about it. If you don't do it well, you'll be condemned to doing the same role over and over and over again. If you do it mediocre, you'll have to do it again.

Lance Henriksen

#44. If you look at your class as anything less than life or death, you do not deserve to be a teacher. If you walk into the classroom ten minutes late, week after week, you need to resign. You wouldn't come in late on your job all the time, but I venture to guess that some of you do it on Sunday.

Bill Wilson

#45. You won this job because you were the best for the job. You are smart, quick to learn, and can quickly acquire any skill you might be lacking.

Carla Harris

#46. You want to fuck the singer, but you would suck on any of them. A rim job, a piss shower, wouldn't matter. The band plays in nothing but tube socks hung over their cocks and sacks. They can make the socks swing like giant tittie tassels. You've never seen anything so sexy.

Amanda Boyden

#47. Every dream that anyone ever has is theirs alone and they never manage to share it. And they never manage to remember it either. Not truly or accurately. Not as it was. Our memories and our vocabularies aren't up to the job.

Alex Garland

#48. Face it: You're always just a breath away from a job in telemarketing.

Douglas Coupland

#49. Men have made the world. And they've made a brilliant job of it. I love men. You know, men, you built Paris and you invented The Beatles, and, you know, and you've taught dogs to say 'sausages.' You know, I love your world. Thank you for it.

Caitlin Moran

#50. I came to Houston for a job, the reason most people move halfway across the country with a first grader and a five-week-old. I came here to teach at Rice.

Justin Cronin

#51. An army isn't made of its officers, you know, though we officers like to think it is. An army is no better than its men, and when you find good men, you must look after them. That's an officer's job.

Bernard Cornwell

#52. In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?

Leo Szilard

#53. Don't need a degree in rocket science to do this job.

Alexander Gordon Smith

#54. When you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn't four percent, it's 100 percent.

Thomas Friedman

#55. My job in the Senate is not just to give speeches and do interviews, it's to solve problems.

Marco Rubio

#56. I had a huge advantage with Edward Norton because he's directed a movie before, so one thing he appreciates is how hard my job is, he's very sensitive to that. We actually ended up finishing "Leaves of Grass" a day early.

Edward Norton

#57. When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Herbert Hoover

#58. There are people who own cars and are getting free cell phones. A car helps one find a job, too. Where do you draw the line?

Timothy Griffin

#59. I'm lucky enough to say my day job is acting. I cut my teeth as a theater actor and playwright in New York.

Christopher Denham

#60. Auditioning for television shows - to find a guy who has a lot of experience as a laborer is a bit of an anomaly. We do exist.I know several other actors who have made their living, instead of a waitress job, framing houses or blacktopping roads.

Nick Offerman

#61. My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.

Carla Hall

#62. Being mum is a number one job. That takes priority.

Jasmine Guinness

#63. I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill ... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.

Val Guest

#64. Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.

Jim Woodring

#65. My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

Rosie O'Donnell

#66. Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

Jodie Foster

#67. My first professional job was to sell heavy-duty waterless cookware.

Zig Ziglar

#68. I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job

Seamus Heaney

#69. Our job isn't to turn our bulb down to make the person next to us more comfortable. Our job is to turn our bulb up and give the next person permission to do the same. Warren did that.

Crystal Zevon

#70. It's not right because it just isn't. You can't go round making up evidence just because you're convinced someone is guilty. You can't be judge and jury; that's not your job. (Liz)

Stella Rimington

#71. The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job.

John Frankenheimer

#72. Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'

Dave Chappelle

#73. Ive loved this job. It is my intention to stay as the Mayor

Len Brown

#74. My job is to provide the atmosphere and assistance to the contestants to get them to perform at their very best. And if I'm successful doing that, I will be perceived as a nice guy, and the audience will think of me as being a bit of a star.

Alex Trebek

#75. I don't have a day job, so I read any time of day.

Ned Beauman

#76. By the time you are in your thirties, most of the time, you've got a job, you can pay for your rent, you can create this nice world around you. And still, you're only in your thirties - you're not that far away from your twenties, which is when you're making all of your stupid mistakes.

Katie Aselton

#77. I'm sometimes critical about other artists who come out with something different until maybe I hear the music. If the music is there, then they did their job, and I'll enjoy the CD.

Brian Austin Green

#78. In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.

Newt Gingrich

#79. 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

#80. If criticism is needed, do it tactfully. Don't use a sledgehammer when a fly swatter will do the job.

Ann Landers

#81. The service in L.A. is the best. You don't get sarcastic, surly, fed-up waiters and waitresses like you do in England. They're good at their job and they're there for the customer. The only depressing thing is a lot of them have written more screenplays than me.

Ricky Gervais

#82. My poor mother. Every time I get a job, she asks, 'Am I gonna have to watch you kiss someone again in this one?' and I say, 'You're probably gonna have to watch me kiss someone in most of them, Mom.'

Luke Bracey

#83. Back on Nov. 23, 1963, I sailed into Manhattan Harbor onboard the Queen Mary and landed with no job and contacts and just $135 in my pocket. My first lodging was in a rundown hotel for $27 a week with the bathroom down the end of a corridor of beds.

Robin Leach

#84. It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.

Kenzaburo Oe

#85. I hope there will be some good news and some good profits, and people will realize we have a lot of outstanding executives, and a lot of companies that are doing a good job, and those are good companies to invest in.

Don Nickles

#86. There is no schedule in the film industry. It's not like you have a 9 to 5 job every day.

Jodelle Ferland

#87. The thing about people though, I think, is that our hearts tend to do a great job holding on to the horrible stuff and a horrible job holding on to the good. Or at least we're like that until we learn how to not be like that.

Kevin Breel

#88. It's not hard to create self-beliefs that produce a successful and happy life. The main job is to unlearn your limiting beliefs.

Maddy Malhotra

#89. It's like, now you're actually complaining because you're making $9 million and guys are making more? If it makes you that upset, quit. Leave the game. Go home then and try finding another job that's going to pay you that.

Eric Davis

#90. We should be selfless in our practice as believers

Sunday Adelaja

#91. As a reporter, you develop an ear for dialogue because it's your job to capture it accurately.

Michael Connelly

#92. I don't like to spend a lot of money on haircuts: I'll sometimes grow my hair and get an acting job and get them to cut it for free. I think for a lady, though, it's okay to spend a lot on a haircut.

Paul Dano

#93. I understood a powerful fact: formal education gets you a job, but self-education is what makes you rich! The

Jim Rohn

#94. I have had interviews and got close to taking a managerial job. I would consider going back into football.

Alan Shearer

#95. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death. Most of us have fear in one form or another; and where there is fear there is no intelligence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#96. Acting is just a job. I'm exactly the same as that lady bringing us coffee, and I have to remember that.

Danny Trejo

#97. Directors of a large food-manufacturing firm ( ... At one extreme (: one) said it was not his job to protect people from themselves; he was not forcing people to eat his products, and if they chose to do so at the risk of harming themselves, it was of their own free choice.

John Yudkin

#98. 'Rent' was my first professional job, ever.

Aaron Tveit

#99. Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she just wants to switch off. I think we can agree that that's creepy as hell.

Max Barry

#100. MANY MANAGE TO SEPARATE THEIR LIFE FROM THEIR FILMS. THEY LIVE ONE WAY AND EXPRESS OTHER IDEAS IN THEIR WORKS. THEY ARE ABLE TO SPLIT THEIR CONSCIENCE. I CAN'T. TO ME CINEMA IS NOT JUST MY JOB: IT'S MY LIFE, AND EACH FILM IS AN ACT OF MY LIFE.

Andrei Tarkovsky