Jobs Quotes
After Survivor, I was driving across country and moving to San Francisco, going to get a job interning at an ad agency. And then they asked me to read for this movie.
Be good to yourself. Listen to your body, to your heart. We're very hard on ourselves, and we're always feeling like we're not doing enough. It's a terribly hard job.
Returning to South Carolina meant getting a normal job in a normal town with normal people and marrying a normal person. I wanted the glamour and opportunity of the world.
You do a job like mine because you love the job, not because it's going to make you famous.
We should put pressure on power and write the truth and write relentlessly and fearlessly. That's the job.
Librarians! Librarians always know how to find out things. That was their job even before the Internet.
I am a proud Montrealer. Jobs will take me where they take me, but nothing will ever be able to convince me to leave my home.
Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles.
Too many people spend more time planning how to get the job than on how to become productive and successful in that job.
The first 90% of the job takes 90% of the time. The remaining 10% of the job requires another 90% of the time. The first condition of immortality is death.
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.
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.
My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.
It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.
The sooner we rein in the red tape factory in Washington, D.C., the sooner small businesses can get back to creating jobs and helping more Americans find an honest day's work.
The only way people will have the trust to give their all to their job is if they feel like their contribution is recognized and valued.
By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good paying job.
I get called all kinds of things - an investigative comedian, a comedian activist - I've lost track of what my job title is.
The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in Lawless. John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality.
It is not my job to sit down and read peer-reviewed papers because I simply haven't got the time ... I am an interpreter of interpretations.
In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.
Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to - starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.
I put forward a budget of what I called "middle-class economics" that continues to be fiscally prudent but makes necessary investments for us to continue the economic momentum and job growth.
I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.
It is so liberating to really know what I want, what truly makes me happy, what I will not tolerate. I have learned that it is no one else's job to take care of me but me.
I have had almost every job under the sun, it feels like. One of the first jobs I took was as a door-to-door pest control salesman in Raleigh, North Carolina.
As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.
Procrastination also can be a way of self-handicapping: if you don't do a great job, you can always say to yourself, "If I'd only started sooner, I'd have been able to produce something excellent."
A half-hour before bedtime, I remind myself that I now deserve to prepare myself for a good night's sleep. You can't focus on your work if you're sleep-deprived even if you have a fascinating job.
Nations with too many laws, endless regulations, just cannot grow or generate enough jobs. Wake up.