Top 100 Quotes About Your Job
#1. I'm very content to have great management and a great label. But for me, success started when my managers came to me and told me, 'Go ahead and quit your job.' I told them, 'As long as I don't have to wash dishes anymore, I'm good.'
Leon Bridges
#2. At any point along that path, your job as an artist is to push craft to its limits - without being trapped by it. The trap is perfection: unless your work continually generates new and unresolved issues, there's no reason for your next work to be any different from the last.
David Bayles
#3. Why did you do this? You could lose your job or worse."
"I wanted to spend some time alone with you. Tomorrow, you might be leaving for good." He leaned down and pressed his lips to hers. Reluctantly, he pulled away. "You're worth the risk.
Julia Crane
#4. Your job is to focus on my personal happiness, she said, & I've got big plans, so break time is over.
Brian Andreas
#5. If you have suffered the loss of a family member to chronic disease, if you suffer debilitating seasons of depression, if you have lost your job and livelihood, gone through a divorce that came out of the blue, know that God is not punishing you. He is not waiting for you to do something.
Tullian Tchividjian
#6. 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
#7. I don't think of myself as a hard man, but other people may think otherwise. You know you have obligations to do the best you can for people, for your job, for your shareholders ... it all has to be balanced between the hardness and the softness.
Frank Lowy
#8. Make every day extraordinary no matter what your job is.
Donald J. Trump
#9. Your job, as a leader, is to encourage the people you're responsible for to move physically, mentally, emotionally, or socially toward the objectives you have set to improve the shared work.
Harold Kurstedt
#10. I'm skeptical of the 'go local' approach to cartooning to preserve your job.
David Horsey
#11. Your job is to collect good ideas. The more good ideas you collect, the more you can choose from to be influenced by.
Austin Kleon
#12. You can get on with your job. I'm going to get on with mine. And mine is to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland, that's what they expect from me and I'm not going to be deflected by interesting academic or media speculation or attempts to take the whole debate back.
Peter Hain
#13. His grief at your leaving is also his fear of losing the power he has had for lifetimes. Those days are over for him, and he is in turmoil. But if you are to help him on his soul's quest, you will leave him. It is your job
your sacred contract
to free him, and to free yourself.
Elizabeth Lesser
#14. Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so?
There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.
Drew Carey
#15. Life is a university, and you never graduate. Accept that whatever happens to you, no matter how terrible, is there to teach you. Your job is to learn and do what you have to.
Srikumar Rao
#16. There's a laundry list of reasons why not to borrow from your 401(k). While the money is on loan, it's not working for you - and if you leave your job, you'll have to pay it back in 60 days or treat it as a taxable withdrawal.
Jean Chatzky
#17. The public," he said, "bless them. It's the same in tailoring: they always think they know more about your job than you do, and then you get the blame when it ends up looking a mess." He
K.J. Parker
#18. Losing your job gives you the ability to decide what product each unit of your passing life should produce
Sunday Adelaja
#19. You can still have chemistry on screen without getting on with the person. But it just makes your job a lot easier if you don't have to gird your loins, if that's not quite the right phrase, every time you're going to do a scene with that person.
Hugh Dancy
#20. Your job is obviously very pressured."
"I thrive under pressure," I explain. Which is true. I've known that about myself ever since ...
Well. Ever since my mother told me when I was about 8.
Sophie Kinsella
#21. In America, your job determines your marks. In Soviet Russia, Marx determine your job!
Yakov Smirnoff
#22. One day I said to my dad, 'Are you disappointed that I'm working a minimum-wage job and I didn't go to college?' I'll never forget his response. He said, 'It's not about how much money you make or what your job is, but it's more about your character. For that, I'm proud of you.'
Josh Dun
#23. 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
#24. Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.
Bill Klem
#25. Perhaps you're not the next Buddha. Perhaps you're not the Maitreya. Perhaps that's not your job in this incarnation. Perhaps you have to enjoy life and learn about life through whatever way that you find yourself going.
Frederick Lenz
#26. Ted, I believe you and I met for a reason. It's like the universe was saying, Hey Barney, there's this dude, he's pretty cool, but it is your job to make him awesome
Barney Stinson
#27. I was obviously out of my mind. It was your job to talk me down off the ledge, not hand me a cape and tell me I could fly.
Abigail Strom
#28. I help relationships come to an end or help them go to the next level. It can be boyfriend or girlfriend, or if you want to quit your job.
Shannen Doherty
#29. Honestly facing your lack of sovereignty over your own life produces either anxiety or relief. Anxiety is God-forgetting. It is the result of thinking that is life is on your shoulders, that it is your job to figure it all out and keep things in order.
Paul David Tripp
#30. You don't ask a man, 'Do you want to be in control [of your job]?' You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
Barbra Streisand
#31. When you don't do your job, you get fired. That's your warning.
Mallory Monroe
#32. 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
#33. [ ... ] It's not your job to fix the world; it's your job to live well. That's your birth right. Everyone knows it, but far too few people actually take to implementing it.
Alice Walsh
#34. 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
#35. Because the truth is, this is love, and it doesn't matter if you lose everything. Your job. Your home. Your car. Not as long as you have that person by your side.
Jessica Thompson
#36. There is only one kind of discipline, and that is the perfect discipline. As a leader, you must enforce and maintain that discipline; otherwise, you will fail at your job.
Vince Lombardi
#37. From an early age, I understood the concept that, if you're not the star, then your job is to not pull attention away from the star.
Ansel Elgort
#38. There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.
William Goldman
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. What many people do not understand is: It's not about who you think you know, but about who actually knows you. So better start giving today, be it giving everything at your job, or giving out lunch to that man. Start giving, and the world will know your true character!
Akilnathan Logeswaran
#44. But surely if you loved someone it was your job to stick with him? To help him through the depression? In sickness and in health, and all that?
Jojo Moyes
#45. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity, you will become a statistic.
Chuck Palahniuk
#46. The question I love to get asked is: 'What's the hardest part of your job?' And literally, the answer is probably real sad, but it's to just to be me. Like, it's really hard, because I think people, you know, have a set idea of what a pop star should be.
Kelly Clarkson
#47. Your job in life is to look after yourself and to find ways to get what you need - emotionally and otherwise - so that you live your best possible life, without being mired in anger and hurt over the past.
Amy Dickinson
#48. You life matters. You are here for a reason. Your job is to determine why.
Michael Hyatt
#49. As a leader, there are professional skills and traits that are expected. It's your job to identify and exhibit them so you can be challenged and judged professionally as a leader - and not as a woman.
Liz Weber
#50. You must learn that it is not important for you to ask questions. Nobody needs for you to ask questions. Your job is to follow procedure. Following procedure does not require questions.
Noah Cicero
#51. I love to write just about more than anything, but there are times I have to force myself to sit down and work. I want to play with my daughter or watch a movie with my husband or go outside on the nicest day of the year. But if writing is going to be your job, you have to treat it like a job.
Chelsea Cain
#52. I occasionally get glimpses, but I have to reprioritize, because that's how it naturally progresses - things like family, responsibilities, and your job all take precedent.
Drew Magary
#53. You can love your job, but your job will not love you back.
Cathie Black
#54. Attachment to the past and fears concerning the future not only govern the way you select the things you own but also represent the criteria by which you make choices in every aspect of your life, including your relationships with people and your job.
Marie Kondo
#55. I'm not asking you to do your best. I'm asking you to do your job. -Dagny Taggart
Ayn Rand
#56. As I'm concerned, Fin, you did not fuck up. Those boys didn't touch my daughter. So the way I see it, as her man, you did your job.
Kristen Ashley
#57. If you're a writer, reading is part of your job description.
Mark Rubinstein
#58. Joy in your Job is possible to the extent you're willing to choose it.
Todd Stocker
#59. In the Navy, the path is paved for you. Your job is to be a soldier and fit in. As long as you stick to your place, it's actually really easy.
Kiesza
#60. Your job is to control yourself. Your job is to discipline yourself. Your job is to deal with everything in life with affection, love and kindness.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#61. Most people are motivated by the economy. And if you've lost your job, lost your mortgage, lost your 401(k), you're angry. And if your brother-in-law has lost one of those you're angry still. And when you're angry you take it out on people who are in office. Which is natural.
Ed Rendell
#62. When it comes to the economy, my highest priority as President will be worrying about your job, not saving my own.
Mitt Romney
#63. It's your job to come up with compelling characters who speak to an individual authenticity. If I'm not interested in the characters, I can't go on. I have to be fascinated by them.
Nic Pizzolatto
#64. Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person.
Elisabeth Rohm
#65. I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.
Miguel Ferrer
#66. The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.
Oscar Wilde
#67. No physical quantity can continue to change exponentially forever. Your job is delaying forever.
Gordon Moore
#68. You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support your child, even if no one else would. It was your job to rebuild the bridge, even if your child was the one who burned it in the first place.
Jodi Picoult
#70. If you know why someone is doing what they're doing, why they're behaving the way they are, then that's your job to reveal that, and often that's situational. The storytelling does that, and then some of it's your job as an actor to make that subtext come to life.
Cate Blanchett
#71. When you lose your job, you gain ownership of your life
Sunday Adelaja
#72. You make your first album, you make some money, and you feel like you still have to show face, like 'I still go to the projects.' I'm like, why? Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. You grew up there. What makes you think it's so cool?
Jay-Z
#73. Your job is not to judge. Your job is not to figure out if someone deserves something. Your job is to lift the fallen, to restore the broken, and to heal the hurting.
Joel Osteen
#74. It's easy to be distracted by the job of growing your business. But never forget that your job as a leader is also to grow people.
Darren Hardy
#75. When your job is what defines you, when that is the be-all and end-all of your existence, what does a fake smile and a sallow look matter. You have to save your job to keep body and soul together, don't you?
Andy Paula
#76. IF YOUR JOB IS CUSTOMER SATISFACTION, YOUR REAL JOB TITLE IS PROBLEM SOLVER.
Brian Tracy
#77. In print news your job is to know things about others, you peer out at the world through an arrow slit. In telepresence you _are known_. If I'd still been writing for a newspaper--if there still were newspapers-- I could have forgotten...
Raphael Carter
#79. If I didn't like you, I could take any or all of what I found and invent a context that lost you your job, your relationships, your degree. People are so vulnerable online and they don't realize it. That is scary to me.
Mark Cuban
#80. You've got to have something to retire to. Something you always wanted to do but your job prevented it.
Ozzy Osbourne
#81. Don't always expect good things to happen. Your job is to forgive no matter what happens.
Gary Renard
#82. 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
#83. Do not complain about two things; your job and your position, because you can always change them.
M.F. Moonzajer
#84. Just a feeling." "Hmmm. Well, since it's your job to have feelings, I guess I'll go with it. But if you're wrong, and they kill me, I'm going to be very disappointed in you." "I'll bear that in mind." *
Steven Brust
#85. Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money.
Orson Welles
#86. the bureaucracy gets ridiculous and the legal implications of opening your mouth has you more concerned about losing your job than actually solving the problem.
Paul Carter
#87. If your job is not making a difference in this world, by all means, get out there and find something else ... You'll find a sense of making a difference through your work if you simply look for it.
John C. Maxwell
#88. My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, 'Cooking is my job, and studying is your job.' I think, in retrospect, she didn't like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way.
Ina Garten
#89. If you have a fantastic idea you're really passionate about and are making $100,000 in your job, if you can set aside some of that to invest in servers or contractors or other folks, that's actually the best way to start a business in my opinion.
Matt Mullenweg
#90. Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
Seth Godin
#91. Are you doing work worth doing, or are you just doing your job?
Seth Godin
#92. You really have to challenge yourself to come out of those parameters that they put you in, even if that's your job.
Ice Cube
#93. My job as the writer is to fool you. Your job as the reader is to see if you can catch me at it.
Sue Grafton
#94. Make a total commitment to your company, your job, and your career. Uncommitted people have no future.
Brian Tracy
#95. And Calla was indeed in fine form. She barked, Do you remember how I said that there were three sleepers, and Maura's job was to not wake one of them, and your job was to wake one of the others? Remember how I didn't say anything about the other one? I did not mean bring her to my kitchen.
Maggie Stiefvater
#96. You download it for free, we get charged back for it.
I know you're saying, "They won't know, they won't miss it,
Besides, I ain't a thief, they won't pay me a visit."
So, if I come to your job, take your corn on the cob,
And take a couple kernels off it, that would be alright with you?
Andre Benjamin
#97. Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce- to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth; it's having the power to produce wealth. It's intrinsic.
Stephen R. Covey
#98. 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
#99. Do your job brilliantly and the cream will rise to the top.
Irene Rosenfeld
#100. Your team will get stronger when you begin to build yourself. Teams are made up of individuals who work together ... and get their own job done. What are you doing to be sure that your job is being done perfectly?
Jeffrey Gitomer
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