Top 99 Quotes About Job Description
#1. It would never occur to me not to look dreadful if that's the job description.
Lesley Manville
#2. Too many people think that finding the reason God placed us here on earth will come in one assignment with a big title and complete job description. I believe that discovering our purpose will unfold slowly, like a seed planted deep in the ground.
Lysa TerKeurst
#3. I just try to be honest, because I think that's part of my job description as a writer.
Charlie Kaufman
#4. Get to know the job intimately that you're applying for. Don't just read the job description - study it and picture yourself performing every task required of you. When you interview, framing your responses so that you reveal your significant knowledge about the job gives you a massive advantage.
Travis Bradberry
#5. Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.
Robert Genn
#6. You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl. That's part of the job description, Mr. Maxfield.
Tammara Webber
#7. Jim's vague understanding was that she had so much money that a strict job description was superfluous.
Emma Straub
#8. To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.
Deb Caletti
#9. When you're part of an illegal government conspiracy, your actual job description gets hazy. [...] If you're working off the books, but the books don't officially exist in the first place, have you really gone rogue, or are you just putting in unpaid overtime?
Craig Schaefer
#10. Terminus sniffed. I guard borders. I don't kill giants. It's not in my job description.
Rick Riordan
#11. If you're a writer, reading is part of your job description.
Mark Rubinstein
#12. It's always up to other people to say if something is art. I hate it when people say, "I'm an artist." I think, well, I'll be the judge of that. And I don't think "artist" is a job description. It's a critique, a favorable critique, that someone else might apply to your work.
John Waters
#13. We think our job as humans is to avoid pain, our job as parents is to protect our children from pain, and our job as friends is to fix each other's pain. Maybe that's why we all feel like failures so often - because we all have the wrong job description for love.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#14. When I used to model, the job description is 'shut up and pose.' There are people today who would really like me to go back to that old job description and 'just shut up and pose.'
Kathy Ireland
#15. The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title.
Gene Tierney
#16. For hitter or pitcher, rookie or veteran, baseball has long been defined by failure rather than success, the old a-.300-hitter-gets-out-7-times-in-10-at-bats truism. Dealing with and managing failure is an essential - some would say the essential - part of the job description.
Barry Svrluga
#17. Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others.
Jay Parini
#18. My new job description is making you laugh and chasing away the bad dreams." "I
Rachel Van Dyken
#19. Another lesson for bookshop owners: "Learn how to listen yet let it pass through you." Thanks to some therapist friends, I have finally acquired that tough skill. But it wasn't part of our anticipated job description.
Wendy Welch
#20. I have no decision-making role at all in my job description. I would have liked an explanation as to why I was moved from first base coach to the ambassadorship, but none was ever given.
Mookie Wilson
#21. Temptation is impossible for me to resist ... Come on. This is Hollywood. It's in the job description.
Tom Sizemore
#22. What is your one-sentence job description?
Andy Stanley
#23. Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite the rules. You're not just changing a job description, but an ancient myth. You're revising the Bible, Poetry, Legend and Psychoanalytic Scripture.
Caryl Rivers
#24. The top two lines on every prophet's job description look like this: Speak openly and clearly about what God is for. Speak openly and clearly about what God is against. The third and fourth lines look like this: I [God] am with you. Have courage. (But you may have to duck or die.)
Scot McKnight
#25. I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them right. End of job description.
Jeremy Grantham
#28. We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description.
Rachel Held Evans
#29. I hate it when people say, I'm an artist. I think, well, I'll be the judge of that. And I don't think artist is a job description. It's a critique, a favorable critique, that someone else might apply to your work. I guess in the art world I'm not exactly a photographer, but I do use photography.
John Waters
#30. Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal.
Mayim Bialik
#31. There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
Nancy Reagan
#33. Mary? said an officer who was carrying a large potted plant in the manner of someone who thinks it is well outside his job description.
Jasper Fforde
#34. Because they're parents. It's in the job description. Must drive minivans. Must be immune to fashion. Must be freaks.
Sarah Ockler
#35. I think persistence in the face of adversity is an essential part of a writer's job description. If you don't care enough about it to avoid being easily disheartened that way, you really should be doing something else.
Lawrence Block
#36. Just because you've never been somewhere doesn't mean you don't belong. Just because it's not in your job description doesn't mean you can't do it. Only you can really decide what league you really belong in.
Jessica Hagy
#38. whatever your occupation, you can maneuver within your job description - adding, delegating, and customizing what you do to match your interests and values.
Angela Duckworth
#40. Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
William Gibson
#41. We take turns being smart for each other; I think it's part of the job description of being a couple.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#42. Of course, looking tough on inflation is part of any central banker's job description: if investors believe that inflation is going to get out of control, you end up with higher interest rates and capital flight, and a vicious circle quickly ensues.
James Surowiecki
#43. I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description.
Jeff Daniels
#44. Corporate types love to pretend their life is exciting. The whispers, fist-pumping and animated hand gestures are all designed to lift our job description from what it really is - that of an overpaid clerk
Chetan Bhagat
#45. I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere.
Kevin Nealon
#46. Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.
Brian McKnight
#47. I'm not here to argue for the world. That's not in my job description. I'm just trying to save it.
Karen Marie Moning
#48. They're politicians," her father pointed out dryly. "A good grip on reality isn't part of the job description.
Christopher G. Nuttall
#49. Once you were in the hands of a Grand Vizier, you were dead. Grand Viziers were always scheming megalomaniacs. It was probably in the job description: "Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted minister.
Terry Pratchett
#50. Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified.
Rachel Vincent
#51. She longed for a man who'd be just her man, not some player who'd have a bunch of other women on the side. She wanted a man who'd work, not some jerk who was always getting fired because his job description was smaller than his ego. Someone reliable and solid, like her Grandpa Earl had been.
Eden Connor
#52. One thing an exceptional employee never says is, 'That's not in my job description.' Exceptional employees work outside the boundaries of job descriptions.
Travis Bradberry
#53. Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey of a time-honoured form?
Robert Genn
#54. Grove Health Center, trilled the woman on the end of the line. She had the vocal automisation that comes to people whose job description might as well read: 'Ceaseless repetition'.
Will Self
#55. The last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#56. God doesn't call people to a job description, He calls people to Himself and His mission in the world.
Louie Giglio
#57. But Tuesday teaches me that part of living well in ordinary time is letting this day be good. Letting this day be a gift. Letting this day be filled with plenty. And if it all goes wrong and my work turns to dust? This is my kind reminder that outcomes are beyond the scope of my job description.
Emily P. Freeman
#58. Supermom wasn't a bad job description. The pay was lousy if you were talking about real money. But the payoff was priceless in so many other ways.
Roxanne Henke
#59. To put money into anything, anywhere, provided that the downside is measurable and acceptable and the chances of a good profit appear to be better than 50%. I will not take gambles, but it is part of my job description to be ready to take very carefully calculated risks.
Peter Cundill
#60. Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.
Anna Quindlen
#61. Dee Henning. I understand your focus, your drive to succeed, really I do, but I gotta wonder how you can even call it success when you're so wrapped up in your work that the only way you'll ever get laid is if they put it in the job description.
Grace Marshall
#62. Unfortunately, honesty hasn't always been a part of the job description for the police force, especially when dealing with our people. Today I must appeal to their sense of integrity, because we need the Mobile Police Department. Before we can do our job, they've got to do theirs...
Ravi Howard
#63. How can you run for president if you don't know the job description?
Mohamed ElBaradei
#64. Last man standing," Amos replied with another grin. "It's in my job description.
James S.A. Corey
#65. This principle that judges are not politicians lies at the very heart of a judicial job - of the judicial job description.
Orrin Hatch
#66. It's definitely part of my job description not to be too fat.
Elizabeth Hurley
#67. Happiness just wasn't part of the job description back then. You tried to find a helpmate to keep the cold wind and dogs at bay. Happiness just wasn't part of the equation. Survival was.
Robin Green
#68. Ending up in the right place in this debate requires starting in the right place. The right place to start is the proper discrimination of what judges are supposed to do, and the rest of the process should reflect this judicial job description.
Orrin Hatch
#69. I can't please everyone. That's not in my J.D., you know, not in my job description.
Maria Sharapova
#70. I'm sure you're wrong," Cat murmured. "Teachers have to like all kids. It's in the job description.
J.M. Madden
#71. There was something special about watching a manager and umpire both convinced they were totally right, but knowing that one had to be wrong. As an ump, those moments made my job fun, and getting 'nose-to-nose' was part of my job description.
Doug Harvey
#72. Love is your job description - no matter what you do for a living. If you ever feel unsure of what you're supposed to do in a situation, here's a good rule of thumb: always do what leads to greater love.
Marci Shimoff
#73. No matter what the job description says, your real job is to make the boss look good.
Lois Wyse
#74. That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart.
Audrey Niffenegger
#75. The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration's economic recovery strategy for the nation.
Thomas Frank
#76. Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.
Andy Warhol
#77. Strangely, the job description did not specify that as a requirement.
Michelle Knudsen
#78. A lot of young people who I employ expect a raise after three months or expect not to have to put in more work than what's in their job description.
Sophia Amoruso
#79. It's the nature of hearts to break. It's in their job description. When a heart is doing what it's supposed to be doing, it holds nothing back. And sometimes it gets broken.
Geneen Roth
#80. Alphas simply did not grovel; arrogance was part of the job description.
Gail Carriger
#81. What are you? (a Daimon)
Oh please, let me give you the job description. Me, Dark-Hunter. You, Daimon. I hit, you bleed. I kill, you die. (Zarek)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#82. Whatever my job description consists of, becomes my job. Maybe it's just the way I tackle work, in general.
Zoe Bell
#83. I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really.
Juliet Stevenson
#84. You're new here, aren't you?" Rolan asked.
"Rose is visiting. She's a friend of the family." Viktoria said.
"Ah," he said. "Now I remember hearing about you. I had no idea such a fierce Strigoi killer would be so beautiful."
"It's part of the job description," I said dryly.
Richelle Mead
#86. Politicians, it's in their job description to just lie, every day.
Rob Delaney
#87. Lying to the American people wasn't part of my job description.
Ralph W. Moss
#88. Did you miss my job description? Or were you just not paying attention the day I busted heads on Olympus? Fucking with you people is what I do. It's what I live for and I'm really tired of you now. (ZT)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#89. Ir you're a writer, reading is part of your job description. ~ Mark Rubinstein
Mark Rubinstein
#90. But mothers lie. It's in the job description.
John Green
#91. The First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description ... You have to create it for yourself.
Hillary Clinton
#92. The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability.
S.A. Tawks
#93. should tell you, the job description was super-vague and that I am probably not at all qualified to do any technical stuff. I made something explode in chemistry last year.
C.B. Lee
#94. You're such a natural at this, Bella; I forget how very strange this all must be for you. I wish I could hear it." He ducked down and yanked me up into his arms so fast that I didn't see it coming- which was really something.
"Hey!"
"Thresholds are part of my job description," he reminded me.
Stephenie Meyer
#95. A skilled worker, regardless of the job description, remains a treasure.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#96. The president is the cube of ice one places in the pot of a houseplant, providing a steady amount of nourishment over the course of a hot day. A good description of the job and also a fantastic bit of practical household advice.
Abraham Lincoln
#97. Brand planning must continue to paint a vivid description of the consumer today. The challenge is that it can feel like this picture changes daily. Planning's job is to help separate the temporary shifts from foundational understanding that underpins overall behaviour.
James W. Moseley
#98. 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
#99. And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's service. And I took that ethic and applied it to my writing craft.
Adriana Trigiani
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