Quotes About Not Doing Your Job

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

Sienna Miller

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

James Sinegal

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Sean Hannity

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.

Martin Yan

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. Teaching high school in an inner-city school is not an easy task. Every teacher is responsible for 150 teenagers. The amount of work is just mind-boggling. Remember, you're not just doing a job. You have these kids' futures in your hand; you have to inspire them.

Tony Danza

#20. Half the fun is getting to play dress-up and imagine what it's like to be this other person. If you're not excited about a part where you get to use your imagination, then what's the point in doing it? It'll be just another job. Also, Director Michael Pressman and I see eye-to-eye with Marie.

Zoe Kazan

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.

Patrick Lencioni

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

Charlotte Rampling

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

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

John Berry

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

Ethel Merman

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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