Job Quotes

Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to - they usually have a life of their own if you've done your job properly.

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

The voters reward good performance. So, I'm going to go out and focus, if I become the governor, to do the very best job I can as governor. The rest of it will take care of itself.

What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.

The outstanding people realized that the job involved more than just writing a good strategic plan. It was also important that top management should understand the plan and be prepared to adopt it.

One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without my wife's consent.

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

I want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.

As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India.

Most actors feel only one way. We're just grateful to have a job.

It's not a bad idea to be single, so I can concentrate on my job.

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small; you don't know where it can lead.

No matter who you are, no matter what your color, creed, how you choose to pray or who you choose to love, that if you are an American - first generation or fifth - one who is willing to work hard, play by the rules and apply your God-given talents - that you should be able to find a job that pays the bills.

We can't go to people who have lost their job at GM and say, 'Oh, by the way, we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there,' unless we can demonstrate that it is in America's interest. I happen to think it is.

A guy gave me a job at an information booth - no questions asked.

There are still things technically about films that I think are a mystery to me and I want to remain a mystery. I don't particularly want to know what everyone's job is because I've got lines to learn.

Part of my job is to read the paper, watch C-Span and show things that haven't been shown or were buried.

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

To me, having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who showed up for the job. I consider myself a worker.

My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.

Through F1, I bought my own boat. I learned to fly my own plane and helicopter. And my job with my company is a reflection of everything motor racing taught me.

Well, I liked it - that was the main thing. I liked it, but I didn't think of it in terms of a career. I didn't really know; I didn't really think about it. One thing just led to another until finally I quit my job as a salesman and found myself working as a photographer.

Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week.

There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.