Jobs Quotes

There may be luck in getting a good job-but there's no luck in keeping it.

Leadership is the ability to recognize the special abilities and limitations of others, combined with the capacity to fit each one into the job where he will do his best.

If you mean you think it is my job to go into the secret passage first, O Thorin Thrain’s son Oakenshield, may your beard grow ever longer,” he said crossly, “say so at once and have done!

In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.

Butch didn't live in his own place. He didn't spend his own money. He had no job, no future. He was a well-kept pet, not a man.

Give a woman a job and she grows balls.

Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.

A fan is someone who, if you have made an idiot of yourself on the pitch, doesn't think you've done a permanent job.

Security is something when you don't have any confidence and you want somebody to pay you when you don't do the job.

I have mainly been interested in acting. I think it's a great job, a fine way to live your life.

The less people know about me, the easier my job is.

Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.

Reading scripts is actually quite a relaxing part of the job. Strangely relaxing. This is a whole different ball game.

In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you.

If we get the right people in the right job we've won the game.

Don't take a job because your mother wants you to. Don't be a victim. You own your decision.

No one is guaranteed a job in this.

The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.

A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.

A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.

Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure.

My first acting job was a Breck commercial.

If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.

You can't rely on the approval of others. I used to always look for praise from my directors to reassure myself that I was doing a good job. I don't do that anymore.

Cool? Am I cool? I don't know, but I hope my characters are cool, in the sense of iconic. That's my job, at its very essence.

I was 18 when I got my first acting job.

When somebody's really good, they're not just thinking about their job.

I walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets.

My first pilot gig; in fact my first job in television; was 'Freaks and Geeks,' and the experience of directing that pilot was probably the single most formative of my directing life.

I'm a grinding actor. That's how I've always viewed myself. You go from one job to the next.

My day job is acting - I wouldn't direct something if I didn't feel passionate about it.

[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so long as it stays within the bounds of moral decency.

A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his job when he does feel like it.

When somebody says, Action, I act. When they say, Cut, thats my job. Ive done it.

Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn

The higher the wages the fewer the jobs; the lower the wages the more the jobs.

We are far too critical of the fabulous system of plenty that has brought us the highest living standards on earth. The liberals have done a good job of undermining faith in the market system.

Government is no more than taxpayers hiring the most inefficient organization to do the job.

I'm off at least three or four days a week, so it's a perfect job, really.

My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years.

I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly.

Cordless vacuums are designed for quick jobs, but you need enough power to do the job; you don't want the power waning over time.

No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.

It's basically the best job in the world. If you're fortunate enough - and I consider myself fortunate - you get to work with your friends and you get to work on projects that interest you.

Talking nice about sun and wind and green jobs is just greenwash.

So when you consider the archetypal, historical, and cultural background of whatever you do, it gives you a sense that your occupation can be a calling and not just a job.

Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.

My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs.

It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that.

I am fortunate to have access to an array support and services, and I certainly could not do my job without them. But sadly, not everyone has access to the same resources.