Jobs Quotes

What's a philosopher?' said Brutha. Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.

Smart, sustainable, inclusive growth is the key to job-creation and the future prosperity of Europe.

The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.

There are times when phrases such as 'totally astonished' just don't do the job. I am of course delighted and honoured and, needless to say, flabbergasted.

You could be disqualified for a job [at Harvard] if you were either smart or Jewish or Keynesian. So what chance did this smart, Jewish, Keynesian have?

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

I have not had any serious non-academic job.

A fundamental requirement, overriding any other for this job, is an understanding of deafness-what it is and how it affects the educational experience.

My basic rule is that I want people who don't want a job in government.

You have a moral obligation to finish the job you said you would do.

Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy.

Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.

There was a long time I had no job security, no options and no education.

The only way to do my job without optimism would be as a cynic, and that's not my nature.

My hardest job has been to keep from being a millionaire.

I got fired when I was a dishwasher at Denny's. That set me back a little bit. You don't realize how important dishwashers are until you do the job.

Customer service should not be a department, customer service is everyone's job.

The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five guys, and we polished the leather furniture.

The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

Just as important, we need a new dedication to opening avenues for employee participation and motivation through profit-sharing and innovative programs of job enrichment.

A cook's job in my opinion is to be creative and push the boundaries of their cuisine and never stop experimenting.

I refused to be disrespected. So, at 16, of course, I was a gentleman about it, but I told them and it cost me my job.

A composer's job involves the decoration of fragments of time.

I like fashion because it’s sort of my job, so I’m into it when I have to be. But when I’m not working, I wear jeans and T-shirts. I go to vintage stores all the time to find funky T-shirts.

The truth is that in my job, becoming old and becoming extinct are one and the same thing.

I've never been good at accepting jobs six months down the line. I can't do it. If I'm thinking about this, I can't think about that. So I always seem to fly by the seat of my pants.

Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.

It is not our job to apply laws that have not yet been written.

It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.

The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.

Teachers are out there with a very difficult job, which they pursue with tireless dedication.

In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.

I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

The First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description... You have to create it for yourself.

The reason that gets me is, and the greatest part of my job and what I do, is the humanity of it and there's certain moments where that really cuts through.

I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it.

When I got the job on 'Lost,' I was a broke university student living in the crappiest part of town, with a duct-taped back window on a broken-down car. I existed on peanut butter and tea.

I still have my same babysitting job, I babysit twice a week.

I feel like my job is to make impact, spread love, tell great stories, inspire people, that's what I am going to do.

Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That required a very high profile, some very strong language.

I never got a job I didn't create for myself.

writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're a harassed tribe, we writers.

Virtue begins when we dedicate ourselves actively to the job of gratitude.

An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job.

I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer, and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.

I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'

I support moving toward more clean, renewable energy as quickly as we can, because I think we [America] can be the 21st century clean energy superpower and create millions of new jobs and businesses.

Maybe if I completely shaved my head and get the frost out of my moustache, maybe I could get one of those serious acting jobs.

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.