Job Quotes

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.

Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes.

I've had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the results of your job. You get there and there is a house on fire. You leave and there's not a fire anymore.

Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.

Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job.

Having a child keeps you very grounded. So when I decided to have a child, I made it clear to the people I work with that my job was no longer my priority.

Looking back at it now, I really feel like it was a gift because I don't know if I have the talent to become a prima ballerina. It's such a hard job to have. I don't have any regrets about it.

Could I have walked out then? If I had, Terry wouldn't have accepted the job.

My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I also had the financial means to hire a yoga teacher to come to my house while my sitter watched the newborn. For 95 percent of the world, that's not realistic.

The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!

The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so I'm able to do a good job with what is in front of me.

I just continue to look for different material, great material, as good as I can find, and try to go in there and do as good a job as I can do in making it a record. That's all you can expect. That's all that you can do.

I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me.

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

I love my job; I love the world that it is. But I don't want someone who is just in love with that world. I want to be with someone who is in love with me, warts and all.

Television itself is an intimate medium. It's in your house. You're visiting with these people... Not everybody's going to like it, just like not everybody likes everybody on the playground. I mean, that's life - especially if your job is to just go out there and be yourself.

I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.

Along with our friends in the GCC, the first order of business is stability. Beyond the imperative of stability, the most important priority is job creation for all Bahrainis.

This is a time when the United States should be standing tall. There is no other leader in the world today. We shouldn't be approaching conflicts as a team sport. We either get in an we lead and we do a good job, or you don't get in at all.

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

What I like in this job is you can travel to many places, many imaginations.

A lot of it, as it is in any job in life, is being in the right place at the right time.

Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.

I never lose that terror of 'this is my last job, I'll never work again.' You can never relax and rely on whatever reputation you've built.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes.