Jobs Quotes

I truly believe that the job of an actor and the drive of an actor is simulating the internal journey in life which is to get deeper and deeper into our understanding of who we are.

Even after nearly 50 years in this business, I still feel like I'm lucky every time I get a decent job, but an opportunity to work with people of that ilk.

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.

I think we ought to talk about what the American people want, and that is jobs and get the economy on track.

We don’t have to wait until we move or change jobs to change our lives. Nor do we have to wait for large-scale, upstream change. We can initiate change right now. There are endless starting points.

The job of senior management is to cultivate an environment where store managers can learn from the market and from each other.

When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest is all semantics.

I am privileged to do a job I love to do. I would never change any moment from my life.

The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult.

I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.

I know that I am my worst critic. I know that if I can walk away from the set at the end of the day and feel that I did the best job I could and feel proud, that's what will satisfy me.

My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

I think that teachers have the hardest job in the world, and they are the most unsung heroes so much of the time.

I already get 10 job offers a year, which is more than I can handle anyway.

We just kept moving back and forth because my mother never had a job. We kept getting kicked out of every house we were in. I believe six months was the longest we ever lived in a house.

At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood.

It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable.

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.

Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticated equipment, including gamma rays, to detect drugs and illegal immigrants as they enter the U.S.

My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?

I have jobs that I've preferred more than others simply because I've gotten to meet and make friends with great people. I've pulled at least one very close friend from every project I've done.

People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That's easily overlooked.

I don't care about [being a star]. The most important thing for me now is just do my job.

If the audience walks out of a concert thinking, What a wonderful experience, then we have done our job.

Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.

An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job?

Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.

I originally started redoing houses to deal with stress. I found that the hour I could go to a job site every day took my mind off the 24/7 of thinking about my clients.

Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.

I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.

A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.

Krush Groove was a movie at the time. That was my first break. I just got to New York. I was right out of college and I was happy to have a job.

The constant variety is the most interesting part of my job.

My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.

I've dated athletes before but it's too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very selfish sport.

Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.

Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life.

I can't seem to fathom that the things important to me are not important to other people as well, and so I come off sounding like a missionary, someone whose job it is to convert rather than listen.

It turns out that the people who like their jobs the most are also the ones who are doing the best work, making the greatest impact, and changing the most.

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.

Americans are so dedicated to their jobs.

President Obama instituted the most anti-growth, anti-investment, anti-jobs measures that we have seen in our lifetime. Now he called his agenda ambitious, I call it reckless.

A reader has to be concerned only with the end result; unless he chooses to analyze it, he does not have to know by what means that result was achieved-but it is my job to know.

Reforming the way the state works with businesses and providing incentives for employers will help preserve and create new jobs in Massachusetts.

I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form.

We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know.

I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job.

One of the first jobs I ever had was opening clams in a seafood restaurant, so I'm pretty quick at it.

It's our job to get into the hardest-to-see places and bring back the best footage - we have the best footage of North Korea ever shot. If that's a stunt, then I'll keep on doing stunts until I die.