Jobs Quotes

President Obama had beer with four unemployed construction workers. And Obama asked the guys what was it like to lose their jobs, and they were like, 'Oh, you'll see.'

I'm an actor. I love to act. That's my job. I'll leave the politicking to others.

To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.

The number one job of the dominant is to continually seduce consent from the bottom.

My Dad sold automobiles as a general manager of a General Motors automobile dealership. He was a job creator. Everyone of those cars he sold he created a job for somebody on the assembly line.

If you saw that Yankee pitching too often, there would be a lot of guys doing different jobs.

When you take a job, you don't just accept the pats on the back. You have to accept the kicks in the pants.

I'm very happy and being raised Catholic I assume it will end tomorrow. The rug will be pulled out from under me and someone will say, now go to your real job, shoveling poop somewhere.

Positivity is an inside job that makes the outside look a lot better.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.

You take jobs so much of the time when you don't need to necessarily work for a living, but it becomes important who you are going to work with.

In every operation there is an above the line and a below the line. Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job.

I was a bleeding-heart liberal, until I got a job.

Do we have Steve Jobs to thank for the iPod and iPod shuffle? iTunes? I think so. He changed the way we hear and think about music.

I realized that it was great to have a job, but it didn't have anything remotely to do with what I was striving for, so why was I doing it?

I mean, I hate when actors talk about how hard their job is. It's ridiculous, because we have the best job in the world.

There's always anxiety when you start a new job, you're the one guy who doesn't know where the ketchup is.

My life is pretty well at peace, and the profession is more of an avocation. It's a calling, if you like, rather than a job. I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would.

I was a pizza delivery man. I worked at a gas station. I worked a lot of jobs, man. A lot of jobs.

What self-respecting male wanted a job being photographed?

This is naturally the most important thing, the dark traces left by the era of totalitarianism in the human mind, where is - are difficult to do away with. And this is a very demanding job.

I believe that if I committed to basketball, I could make an impact in the NBA. I now see football as my job and my greatest challenge.

Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.

We all had a lot of fun making the film ["Airplane" ], but there weren't a lot of outtakes or cracking up because we all were focused on doing our jobs in a professional manner.

[Coaching] is a difficult job which everyone who owns a TV thinks they can do better at.

I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.

No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.

Every job after the first job I got was icing on the cake. This is so much fun.

I have my dream job! As a young person training as an actor, walking on the WB studio lot is a dream in itself.

Going through these academic programs, your job really is to learn how to be a therapist. They're training you to sit in front of clients and it's a serious matter. You're holding people's psyches.

I don't think I'm cut out for a job where you have to look professionally tidy. I prefer working in my pajamas and taking showers after lunch.

The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?

There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true.

My job is to interpret. I'm an interpreter. I can add things and bring unique qualities to the role that the writer may not have thought of, but someone else created the fundamental idea.

Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out.

Your parents ask you to follow the standard path: School, job, security. Is this really the best way? I don't think so - be your own boss!

Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession that is exempt.

...It's easier to find a way to make money at something you love than to learn to love a job that you can make money at.

We're all self-made men, but not very many of us have stayed on the job.

I have to remember to not criticize other networks for other shows when I'm doing interviews because some day I'm going to be going to them, looking for a job, I'm assuming.

I have learned something about the job of being the President's wife. She is not chosen by anyone except her husband and she really has no obligations except to him.

Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There arent a whole lot of manuals for that.

Reporting is pretty vital to me. It keeps me connected to the world. A 40-hour-per-week day job may be less feasible as time goes on.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

You could generally inform a real close friend: when you have manufactured a idiot of on your own he does not truly feel you've finished a long lasting job.

I guess that's one achievement I'm really proud of. Saving Chrysler was more than jobs, more than shareholder value. Saving Chrysler was a good idea for the whole country.

I know who I want to fight, but I don't pick my opponents; I leave it up to my team. They make those kinds of decisions. My job is to fight and win.

My first paid role was my first job out of drama school, which was Just William. It was a BBC TV show. I played Ethel.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job other than at one's best ability.