Jobs Quotes

When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.

It's my job that if somebody wants to have a discussion about something, I'm certainly sensitive to that, and I'm willing to do it.

I remember my brother Nash had just directed me in 'The Square,' and I was sitting in Australia going: 'No one's called me about working for ages. I don't know if I'm ever going to get another job.

If you don't let people flourish in their jobs, why are they going to stay?

I tell people all the time, preached a couple Sundays about it. I'm for everybody. You may not agree with me, but to me it's not my job to try to straighten everybody out.

I might be a teacher or something like that. I really like young people. I always think about the teachers I had that did a good job. I would maybe have the same aspirations.

To me, I'm still a 24-year-old kid who just happens to have a better paying job than other kids my age.

The media's job is to question a premise.

My working life has always been wrapped up in doing my job to the best of my abilities and doing the best for my family. It is not a contest between the two.

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.

What will I do with myself when I retire? When I quit my job, I do not want to quit living. Can I possibly be of use when retirement day comes, or will I just be taking up space?

Our job as humans is to hold onto thoughts of what we want.

​When suddenly you find yourself on the wrong highway, perhaps it's time for a new job, or some new friends. It's your life - live it.

Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people.

I think it's important to focus on our economy, on jobs, on getting America back to work.

The prime minister's job is to captain his team, his party and his government.

I'm what you'd call a regular guy with a big job.

I think that the Detroit auto industry is important to the United States. It's important for hundreds of thousands of Americans who have their jobs as a result.

The bill that was about jobs, jobs, jobs has turned into a bill that's about spending, spending, spending.

Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve, you have to win the war in your thinking first. You can't let the failure outside you get inside you.

It is the leader's job to hold hope high.

It is the leaders job to add significance to the lives of the people he leads.

I'm not too proud to do any job to support my family.

I think there are certain subjects I don't want to tackle, that I don't think I could do a good job with. I don't think I'd be good with... broad comedy? I don't know. Maybe I would.

In your company or industry, work every job in that industry. It's the only way of having a complete understanding of your people and your company.

I believe in workers rights when people are doing a good job. If somebody needs support I am always there, but if they're taking the piss, I am hard on them.

I don't really have any position to complain about my job. Yeah, every job has its moments like, "Ah, you know, it's Wednesday." But I'm blessed. I love my work.

I lost my job and started painting houses with a friend. The marriage had ended about the same time the career did.

There have been openings, but I have not interviewed for any jobs, nor do I want to right now.

I'm very pleased with the job President Bush is doing and he's off to a terrific start.

I expect my next job to be outside government.

The more generous the benefit, the easier you make it to stay on unemployment insurance, and the less incentive there is for people to actually go out and do what it takes to get a job.

If you face a man's job, find a woman!

Every dollar released from taxation that is spared or invested will help create a new job and a new salary.

I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times.

The military's job is to win the war. A president's job is to win the peace.

I'm not insensitive to the jobs. I'm desperately concerned about those jobs. But you don't fix them by pandering to people and telling them you're going to shut the door. You have to grow jobs.

I think George Mitchell is a consummate professional. He is the ideal selection to handle the job of special envoy if you choose to have a special envoy.

Paraguay has had a U.S. supermarket boss as its ambassador for a while. He did the job well. He was there because he wanted to be there. Rather than the British diplomat who didn't want to be there.

...I will continue to underscore that I don't think authorial intent is all that important to a reading experience, and I certainly don't think the job of reading is to divine authorial intent.

I'm at the eye doctor. I'm always at the eye doctor. It's like this is my profession. I am no longer a writer, I'm now an optomoligical patient. By the way, this job doesn't pay well.

The job of reading is to use stories as a way into seeing other people as we see ourselves

I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time job Learning How to Be Blind.

A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.

Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.

If we're going to create the best business climate to create higher paying jobs and retain our young people, we're going to have to build a workforce prepared for the opportunities of the future.

It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be read. They want support; they want someone to say, "Good job."

The impresario's job is to pick the right people who can pick the right people. He picks the people who can pick artists and relate to them. People who know what the market craves.

The C.E.O.'s job in a creativity-driven company is to be an impresario, not a manager.

The manager's job - the impresario's job - is to preside over the company's efforts to jam so the business runs really well.