Jobs Quotes

Fortunately, I've never had a job

When someone tells me what he or she was doing the first time they heard a song of mine, then I've done a good job. If my song becomes about your life, then I'm successful.

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In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.

I feel like part of your job as an actor is you're going to get noticed, and the more successful you get, the more noticed you are. It's kind of like a Catch-22.

I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job.

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

[Making music] only turned into this weird job in the last year or so. Once I figured that out, I was having a blast.

I'm getting paid to tour and travel and I don't have to work a shitty job. And it's weird because you like start getting pissed off about that.

You never get every job you want.

It's not a very secure industry. I've spoken to a couple of people recently who had a successful TV show and then found themselves absolutely skint and struggling to find a job.

John Kerry knows more about more subjects than an awful lot of people. But I think it's a very hard job [Secretary of State].

I think the jobs [at the top] are unbelievably difficult, and there is nothing easier than second-guessing people.

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

For somebody who loves foreign policy, being Secretary is the best job in the world - but it doesn't happen twice.

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.

A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.

Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, thats where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, its easier to combine career and family.

“Job Killer.” Those are the two words you are most likely to hear uttered by most American CEOs when confronted with proposals to enact family-friendly work policies.

The stakes are so high because auditions are make or break. You get the job or you don't. The stakes are about as high as they get, for yourself and your own self-esteem.

My only intention is to just have a little bit more success so that my career is easier and I don't have to work so hard just to get a job.

My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.

When those with ability at their job get to thinking they can't be done without, they're already on their way out.

Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.

Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than to, as window dressing.

The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories.

I feel really lucky that I love my job. I really do.

You have a right to be treated professionally at work, and it's your supervisor's job to make sure all their employees can perform their duties comfortably and safely.

I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.

We have a job to do. After the fight, I'll love him.

Half is not enough protection, half is my fault and half is them just doing a good job. I know it's 150 percent, but I'm a little tired now.

When you're battling for a job, you know that every day you've got to perform.

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside and just ultimately sit down and do the work.

I couldn't do an acting job just to be working. It really had to have some soul to it.

In order to have middle-income, middle-paying jobs, the kinds of jobs that allow people to get ahead, you have to have higher level of training and skill acquisition and education than ever before.

American Dream Is Under Assault. People that haven't been able to find a job in months and this growing sense in this country that this is the new normal, well we can't accept that.

Let's stop talking about new taxes and start talking about creating new taxpayers, which basically means jobs.

I think Republicans need to do a better job of reaching out to everyone in the United States. Politics is always about getting the support of the majority of our people.

It is a health care law [ObamaCare] that is basically forcing companies to lay people off, cut people's hours, move people to part-time. It is not just a bad health care law, it is a job-killing law.

All I know is that when I come to the ballpark I'm going to be on time and give 100 percent. I know that I have to do that to keep my job.

Since President Bush took office, we have lost 3 million more good jobs.

I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'

For me to be ten pounds thinner is a full-time job, and I am handing in my notice and walking out the door!!

I think thats the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

My shoulder's not where I want it to be, but I'm doing a good job of monitoring it.

As an actor, I'll take any job.

As you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs.

I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera.

It is not your job to seek for love. It IS your job to seek within yourself all the barriers against its coming.