Adena Friedman Quotes

I just think of myself as a hard-working person who loves my job.

Adena Friedman

• Job

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Work
  • Heart

• If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Character
  • Job
  • Nice

• Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Job
  • Enemy

• The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Job
  • High
  • Health

• The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Done
  • Job
  • Best

• I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Good
  • Job
  • Dad

• It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.

  

  Cam
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Great
  • Job
  • Education

• I wanted to have more time to play and reflect, but I find retirement more stressful than having a nice, steady job because I have to make decisions about where I want to be.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • Job
  • Nice

• It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • People
  • Job
  • Politics

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

  

  I. F. Stone
  • God
  • Job
  • Computer

• When I'm in professional mode, I do the best job that I can.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Job
  • Best
  • Professional

• After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Job
  • Movie
  • Want

• Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They've got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Job
  • Law
  • Single

• No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Up
  • World
  • Trying

• I had a good job as a printer in the East End. Before the unions destroyed it, that job was very lucrative.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Job
  • End

• I think that I, Jack McBrayer, am somewhat of a people pleaser, and I do enjoy being good at my job. But I would never endanger my life with gullibility or naivete.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• We have finished the job, what shall we do with the tools?

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Job
  • Tools
  • Finished

• Restaurants remind me of bands: there's lots of camaraderie, people work very closely together, very hard, and it's a bad job to pick if you want to make lots of money. Whether music or food, the reward always has to be because you love it.

  

  James Murphy
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• The most important thing is to talk to people that have jobs that you might like and to see what they say the job involves.

  

  Robert Pozen
  • People
  • Important
  • Job

• There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • You
  • Child
  • Matter

• When I'm going to see a comedian, I don't want to see them hold back, and when I'm reading a book, I don't want to hear an abridged version.

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Book
  • Reading

• An elaborate system of etiquette and social standards flowered around the home phone: how long a child might be allowed to stay on the phone, how late one could call without being impolite, and of course, the dread implications of a late night call which violated that norm.

  

  John Battelle
  • Long
  • Home
  • Night

• I just think of myself as a hard-working person who loves my job.

  

  Adena Friedman
  • Job