Job Quotes

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.

What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense?

In fact, if you look upon the situation today, there is great division in the world and we have failed to capitalize on that unity to finish the job in Afghanistan and against al Qaeda.

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.

I don't have to go around trying to save everybody anymore; that's not my job.

I think we did a great job of putting together a program that would have made good e-books available had people been buying e-books in any real numbers.

As a whole, the managers today are different in temperament. Most have very good communication skills and are more understanding of the umpire's job. That doesn't mean they are better managers. It just means that I perceive today's managers a bit differently.

My job is summer camp. I come and talk and try to make a TV show funny.

My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.

You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try to live a really normal life. I definitely don't try to make it into any more craziness than it is.