George Will Quotes

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

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• According to my royalty statements, 'The Green Progression' sold 392 copies in hardcover.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Green
  • Royalty
  • Progression

• I do miss 'Battlestar', the cast and crew. That was a pretty well-oiled machine. It's sort of like you don't know what you've got till it's gone. But I go to a lot of sci-fi conventions, and I love going and talking about the show.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Know
  • Like
  • Gone

• Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Job
  • Night
  • City

• When you have a steady job you're more inspired to broaden yourself.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Job
  • Inspired
  • Jobs

• On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch -- engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• Umpiring, the only job in the world where you can screw up on a daily basis and still have one!

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Up
  • World
  • Job

• I think if you read all my books you know where I stand, pretty much. You could probably give the reader a questionnaire and they could figure out what I'm about. But I don't think my job is to tell you that.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Book

• If you cannot bear these stories then the society is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which itself is naked. I don't even try to cover it, because it is not my job, that's the job of dressmakers.

  

  Saadat Hasan Manto
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Society

• Employees want to believe their company has a meaningful purpose. They want to know that their own job is worthwhile. They want to make a difference. If all three of these conditions are accomplished, bottom line results will follow.

  

  Quint Studer
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Purpose

• What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Up
  • High

• Let's face it, Fox News, you'll miss me when I'm gone. It'll be harder to convince the public that Hillary Clinton was born in Kenya.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Missing
  • News
  • Gone

• The most important thing we can do is to make sure that we are creating jobs in this country. But not just jobs, good paying jobs. Ones that can support a family.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Important
  • Country

• Does it sound outrageous to you that military spending for fiscal year 2000 will be almost $290 billion and all other domestic discretionary spending, such as education, job training, housing, Amtrak, medical research, environment, Head Start and many other worthwhile programs will total $246 billion, the biggest disparity in modern times ?

  

  Dale Bumpers
  • Job
  • Education
  • Environment

• Workers in these temporary jobs will be involved in the provision of food, shelter and other services to fellow Mississippians.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Food
  • Jobs
  • Services

• Don't stay in a bad situation - whether it is a relationship or a job - out of fear of failure. It's not a failure to walk away and choose to be happy. It takes a lot of courage.

  

  Danielle Trussoni
  • Job
  • Bad
  • Happy

• Do you realize that God expects you to consider that you are actually working for Jesus Christ on your job?

  

  Bill Gothard
  • God
  • Job
  • Jesus

• There have been a couple of jobs I've done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink.

  

  Clancy Brown
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Couple

• Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Good
  • Job
  • Jobs

• Gone is the day where you work at a job for thirty years and retire. Millennials jump around and switch careers. I think it's important for CEOs to highlight career mobility within a company, so that employees don't get bored and continue to be stimulated.

  

  Kabir Sehgal
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Important

• It is stupid to think the audience is a bunch of fools who can be manipulated by long titles and NRI romances.

  

  Ram Gopal Varma
  • Stupid
  • Audience
  • Manipulated

• My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size.

  

  Paul Nurse
  • Efforts
  • Cycle
  • Cell

• Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Long
  • Prayer
  • Hard

• You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Attention
  • Crowd
  • Attract

• If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

  

  George Will
  • Jobs
  • Gone
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