Top 100 The Job Quotes
#1. So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.
Barack Obama
#2. Simple formula for the actor: prove you're creative enough to get the job, sane enough to keep the job, and hungry enough to give up everything else to keep them happy.
Brooke Langton
#3. Whatever she wore The Queen regarded as not unlike a uniform. She put on pearl earrings in the same spirit that a policeman did up his silver buttons. They were part of the job.
William Kuhn
#4. Back of the job-the dreamer Who's making the dream come true!
Berton Braley
#5. Virtue begins when we dedicate ourselves actively to the job of gratitude.
Ruth Benedict
#6. It were depression, too. They cut my wages down once at the foundry. They cut my wages down again. Then they cut my wages out, also the job.
Langston Hughes
#7. I don't mind if after the job is done you put me in front of a Nuremberg Trial and then jail me for life. Hang me if you want, as a war criminal. What you don't understand is that the dirty work of Zionism is not finished yet, far from it.
Ariel Sharon
#8. The commonest way to cheat an employer is not by stealing his money or loafing on the job, but by refusing to disagree when you feel he is wrong. If he is paying you for your brains, and not just for your body, an employee has an obligation to dissent from decisions he thinks wrong.
Sibichen K. Mathew
#9. Even if I had any money I would rather burn everything I own and not even give them the ashes. They could have the job of picking them up. That's how much I hate the media industry.
Peter Sunde
#10. Always take the job, pursue the life, and have the friends that allow you to have as much freedom as possible.
James Altucher
#11. I was a terrible actor, and that's why I got the job: I would allow myself to be so bad that I lowered and got down to WWF standards.
Kurt Fuller
#12. In most cases you are the one who confuses just doing the job with testing your worth.
Replace 'I have to' with 'I choose to'.
Neil A. Fiore
#13. Listen to me carefully, sweet girl. Don't live any other way than the way that makes you happy. If you aren't happy, leave your lover. If you aren't happy, quit the job. If you aren't happy, do more to make yourself happy. Because you are the only one who can make yourself happy.
Sara Wolf
#14. It's the job of the young to push the societal envelope.
Jeanne Cordova
#16. The night before a deadline, I usually am in desperate need of a back rub. And new wrists. And candy. And little mice to secretly finish the job while I am sleeping.
Christy Hall
#17. You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.
Zig Ziglar
#18. One of the premises of parenting might be that the job of parents is to teach their kids to get along without them.
Timothy Carey
#19. I cannot recall, in any of my reading, a single instance of a prophet who applied for the job.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#20. We have new roles as coaches and mentors, now that the job of learning is in the hands and minds of the learners.
Matt Renwick
#21. I wanted to finish my career as a Steeler. I felt I just fit the mold as far as a blue-collar guy. I may not be the flashiest, most flamboyant wide receiver out there. But I get the job done for my team.
Hines Ward
#22. On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch
engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#23. To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price
Vince Lombardi
#24. A physicist is one who's concerned with the truth," he later said. "An engineer is one who's concerned with getting the job done.
Walter Isaacson
#25. The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
George Carlin
#26. Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to promote and be the face of the brand. In a weird way, the story was as much the star as any of the actors, so people wanted to hear from us.
Carlton Cuse
#27. Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.
Orson Welles
#28. Sure, it's fun to chat with people with interesting backgrounds who seem to have a passion for your company. But a job interview is not a friendly chat. You need to determine whether candidates, can they really do the job. So ask them to prove it.
Kathryn Minshew
#29. I'm lucky to get to do the job that I do. I'm really lucky to be able to work in so many different areas of this industry.
Brad Goreski
#30. [Fringe] was just about doing the job, or trying to do the job, properly. It was never a job that you could rest on your laurels. It was a very challenging 43 minutes of television that we were shooting, every week.
John Noble
#31. Most of our trainers said it was up to our discretion, and that we never had to use sex unless we felt it was necessary. Wink, wink. They also said that we should do whatever it takes to get the job done.
Charlie Evans
#32. Don't you see, boy? This is why you shouldn't be king. Leave the job to men who understand their own corruption; don't let it destroy you.
Brandon Sanderson
#33. I don't want to sound like Catherine Cookson but I've worked since I was eight, with a paper round and in a fruit and veg shop. Taking a pay cut won't demotivate me, not at all. It's not about money in the first place. It's about the job.
Paul O'Grady
#34. I have tried my best to give the nation everything I had in me. There are probably a million people who could have done the job better than I did it, but I had the job and I always quote an epitaph on a tombstone in a cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona: "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest."
Harry S. Truman
#35. Children do not learn in school; they are babysat. It takes maybe 50 hours to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic. After that, students can teach themselves. Mainly what school does is to keep the children off the streets and out of the job market.
John Taylor Gatto
#36. One of the enduring mysteries of America's occupation of Iraq is why a nation that so little relishes peacekeeping nonetheless refuses to turn the job over to the United Nations.
Timothy Noah
#38. I'm never satisfied with my performance. I want to keep pushing myself. The great thing about being an actor is you're always learning. That's what excites me about the job and what continues to drive me.
Drew Fuller
#39. The job of the evangelist is never easy.
Ben Chifley
#40. No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.
James Fallows
#41. I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.
Gabourey Sidibe
#42. I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it.
Madeleine L'Engle
#43. One word," he breathed into her ear, so low no one would be able to hear. "One word from your idiot mouth and next time I'll finish the job, I swear t'God." He nuzzled, his lips seemingly caressing her outer ear. "Understand?
Karen Rose
#44. Whatever it was that had drawn him to police work, that had wed him to the job for so many years, it surely wasn't the appeal of a gun or the deceptively simple solution it offers.
John Verdon
#45. I like that sense of we're all on the same page and trying to get the job done.
Peabo Bryson
#46. What you do off the job is determining factor in how far you will go on the job.
Zig Ziglar
#47. I wanted to be John Cleese. It took me some time to realise that the job was taken.
Douglas Adams
#48. I used to shy away from publicity so as not to let it get in the way of the work. But it's part of the job. The tabloids are a whole other arena. If fame happens, it happens. I just want to maintain focus.
Giovanni Ribisi
#49. The job of elected leaders is to deliver results that represent the interests of the citizens who placed them in a position of authority with their voice, their vote. But these days, money talks louder.
Mark McKinnon
#50. I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.
Hedy Lamarr
#51. The job of the facilitator is not to keep things on time, but rather to enable the creation of safe time.
Harrison Owen
#52. Here to show me how to grow a penis so I can get the job done?"
"Chloe, I'm pretty sure if you wanted to grow one, you could do it by will alone."
"I'd grow one just so I could ask you to suck on it.
Christina Lauren
#53. An expert is the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.
Arthur Bloch
#54. Principles are like rocks, and methods are like rivers; together they get the job done.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#55. If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.
Susan George
#56. Trust is a function of both character and competence. Of course you can't trust someone who lacks integrity, but if someone is honest but they can't perform, you're not going to trust them either. You won't trust them to get the job done.
Stephen Covey
#57. The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.
Nikki Giovanni
#58. Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other.
Meryl Streep
#59. Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn't that be the job of your mom and dad? To teach you how to brush your teeth and use mouth wash? What do we need the government to do it for? Clearly, what a scam. Fluoride in the water.
Jesse Ventura
#60. A major reason for procrastination is a feeling of inadequacy, a lack of confidence, or an inability in a key area of a task. Feeling weak or deficient in a single area is enough to discourage you from starting the job at all.
Brian Tracy
#61. We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?
Haile Selassie
#62. I've played American characters so many times now, it's so natural to me. But when I play American, I stay in the American accent from the minute I get the job till the minute I wrap.
Gregg Sulkin
#63. People read inevitability as entitlement, and the American people want their candidates to sweat for the job. They want them to actually make a case for the job.
Deval Patrick
#64. [Reagan] was the best president in this era, as he had the perfect temperament for the job.
Dan Patrick
#65. The job of an editor is to ensure a consistent voice.
Keith Rabois
#66. Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.
Tony Abbott
#67. It was like robbing a bank: getting the money was only half the job. Then you had to get away with the money.
Ransom Riggs
#68. When you get out in the field, it's just like any other game. You want to be the same player, the same team that has gotten them to that point. I don't think you have to do anything special. Just be yourself and allow all the time you put in that take over and get the job done.
Stephen Curry
#69. We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather.
Mitch McConnell
#70. Usually, an author writes a manuscript that is handed in to the editor. The editor will then work with an art director to find just the right illustrator for the job, and off they go. Many times, the illustrator and author never meet.
Tony DiTerlizzi
#71. I do just want to be an actor. The thing I get out of it is actually doing the job and inhabiting the world and the role - and I mean that genuinely. That's what I'm in it for.
Andrew Garfield
#72. When I got the offer to do 'Weird Ernie' in the pilot, I was living in New York, and somebody had made a mistake, and they made an offer that was supposed to be $2,500 for the job, but they offered $25,000. I couldn't turn that down. I'd never heard of anything like that!
Bruce McGill
#73. Developing a strategy, leading the world, funding it to make sure that we have a military that's second to none, and doing the job and making sure that we destroy ISIS there. That's how you keep America safe.
Jeb Bush
#74. Management's never been interested in really doing the job, not at any point in human history. Management's true agenda has always been making things more pleasant for Management. - Lastogne
Adam-Troy Castro
#75. The biggest mistake was that I didn't hire all the right people. I should have done better reference checks. I should have defined the roles in a much more professional manner. I hired people who just couldn't do the job.
Lillian Vernon
#76. Ladies and gentlemen, it is not the job of government to be the national nanny. The average citizen can look after his or her own needs without assistance from somebody who works here in Washington.
Tom Clancy
#77. We give people major responsibilities even if they are only 60 per cent ready. Our experience is that people are pretty elastic when you give them responsibility, and they just grow rapidly with the job.
Azim Premji
#78. My philosophy is whatever you do, you've got to invest in yourself. If you don't, there are a lot of people out there who will get the job because they're more prepared than you.
Karl Urban
#79. Why is it that all cars are women?" he asked.
"Because they're fussy and demanding," answered Zee.
"Because if they were men, they'd sit around and complain instead of getting the job done," I told him.
Patricia Briggs
#80. If the government can't track illegals, then let's outsource the job to UPS or FedEx.
Mike Huckabee
#81. I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they could until now.
Ricky Gervais
#82. The way I see it, every time a man gets up in the morning he starts his life over. Sure, the bills are there to pay, and the job is there to do, but you don't have to stay in a pattern. You can always start over, saddle a fresh horse and take another trail.
Louis L'Amour
#84. Well," replied the Count, rising from his chair, "if getting to the bottom is what is called for, I am sure there is no man better suited for the job.
Amor Towles
#85. When I retired, I really wanted to spend time with my family and kids. Coaching would have prevented that due to the commitment of the job and travel that goes with it, too.
John Elway
#86. Hazard of the job. That's Ode de Anal Gland you smell.
Kelly Moran
#87. I'm very happy that I have an Italian version, a French version, and then I have my own company, but I'm not obsessed by my name. Some people are, "Oh, my name," but I couldn't care less about my name. What I like is the job. The ego trip of that comes later.
Karl Lagerfeld
#88. Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#89. If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.
William Feather
#90. We're supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement.
Ed Vargo
#91. The one guiding principle over my 23-year career in TV has been as long as I'm having fun, I really don't care what the job title is.
Andy Cohen
#92. We take turns being smart for each other; I think it's part of the job description of being a couple.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#93. When you're thinking about your next product or current product and wondering how to make it different so you don't have competition, understand the job the customer needs to get done.
Clayton Christensen
#94. In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.
Franz Grillparzer
#95. It's never been my goal to be king of the prom. It's been my goal to do the right thing and get the job done.
Gregg Popovich
#96. The depths of the Depression. You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was, you didn't ask about stock options, or - you said yes.
Art Linkletter
#97. Harvey Publications hired me as a letterer, and they found out six seconds after I got the job that I couldn't letter. I still can't letter. So, they hired me to draw.
Ernie Colon
#98. I believe the more prepared you are physically, the better prepared you are mentally and the more you can then cope. Mentally you have to focus on the job in hand 100%.
Liz Halliday
#99. I'm very pleased with the job President Bush is doing and he's off to a terrific start.
John Engler
#100. You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.
Walter Isaacson
