Job Quotes

The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job.

Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.

In my job you can't just put your head in the sand and throw partisan bombshells. You have to get results.

The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.

My job is to make sure that if you're a family in Florida, your children can get a good education and you have the opportunity for a job. That's my job and that's what I think about every day.

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

I don't see my show as a stepping stone to something else like some people, who get a job then have a foot out the door looking for their next job.

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 quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer.

I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I've been on for a long time and had success with? I don't plan on giving it up any time soon.

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.

There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it.

The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget.

It's a hard job to become president.

It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish.

If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.

I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.

People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

When you walk away from a really wonderful job like that, you start messing with everyone's priorities. It's like you're dissing them.

As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom.

I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description.

I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.

Finally, you get the job, and you think you'll be dancing on the ceiling, but I just wanted to go take a nap. It was just like a weight had been lifted off or something.

I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.

Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.