Job Quotes

• I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Home
  • Book
  • Night

• Presidents have to learn how to adapt. Every president comes into the job; it's different than they expect. They must adapt.

  

  John Dickerson
  • Different
  • Job

• I thought I had to work at someplace everybody's heard of. It was never, 'I'm interested in such and such. I want to work in such and such magazine.' It was like, 'Oh, my G-d, I really need to work for somebody so people will think I'm OK.' So I got a job at 'Popular Mechanics'.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • People
  • Work
  • Popular

• My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart.

  

  Jessica Simpson
  • Heart
  • Job
  • Dad

• While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise.

  

  Maria Bartiromo
  • Time
  • Job

• I wanted to join the Army, but my eyesight wasn't good, so I quit school and my job to just focus on fighting. I didn't want to just get deployed. I wanted to get in on the action.

  

  Alistair Overeem
  • Good
  • School
  • Action

• Acting is very much an all-or-nothing job.

  

  Deirdre O'Kane
  • Job

• I want my readers to be disturbed. I want them to ask, 'Could this really happen?' It is my job to think up new possibilities, to stimulate thought.

  

  Lois Tilton
  • Up
  • Job

• My job involves a lot of sitting on aeroplanes and a lot of walking in high heels! I find yoga helps with both.

  

  Anja Rubik
  • High
  • Walking
  • Yoga

• The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

  

  James Cash Penney
  • Job
  • Teacher

• I was 18 when I got my first acting job.

  

  Jaime Winstone
  • Job

• My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.

  

  Elizabeth Strout
  • Different
  • Women
  • Cleaning

• Even as we continue to carry the banner of civil rights and environmental justice, we've also got to focus on many, many people - for them, life starts with a good job.

  

  John Hickenlooper
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I got a job working at a publishing company, Balmur Music, which was a company that Anne Murray was a co-owner in, as a tape copy guy. Eventually, I got fired from that job.

  

  Blake Shelton
  • Music
  • Job
  • Guy

• Drones can be useful tools, and I am all about useful tools. One of my mottos is 'the right tool for the right job.'

  

  Martha Stewart
  • Job

• Wherever there is one job on the verge of being lost, I will fight to save it. Wherever there is one company looking to grow in West Virginia, I will fight to make that growth a reality.

  

  Joe Manchin
  • Reality
  • Lost
  • Growth

• I need to develop a car and engineer a car in a position that feels comfortable for me, and I don't think anyone can do a better job than I can in that position. The problem for me is if I can't get the car there I do struggle more than some.

  

  Jenson Button
  • Job
  • Car
  • Struggle

• The girls, when they came into school this morning, they did a great thing, which is report it ... It's their job to be there when students need a place to turn.

  

  John Whiting
  • Great
  • School
  • Students

• We all have jobs in our lives that we must get done. We reach out and bring products into our lives to get these jobs done. Marketing is all about asking, 'What job is the customer trying to accomplish?'

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Marketing

• I remember going to the audition for 'Corrie.' I wasn't an actor - what they're often looking for in these rooms is a character, not what's on the page. They want to see what you are going to bring. So somehow, I got the job on 'Corrie.' For the first time in a while, someone really believed in me.

  

  Joe Gilgun
  • Time
  • Character
  • Remember

• That's where my job comes in. Getting the E.U. and U.S. to agree.

  

  John Bruton
  • Job

• I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.

  

  Amy Adams
  • School
  • High
  • College

• Lucasfilm called me out of the blue, and I almost hung up because I thought it was a practical joke. This was right before 'Revenge Of The Sith' came out. Here you are, a big 'Star Wars' fan, talking about 'Star Wars' all the time, and you have your master replica lightsaber, and then you get a call from Lucasfilm for a job?

  

  Dave Filoni
  • Up
  • Time
  • Star

• I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch.

  

  Ishmael Reed
  • Job
  • Published
  • Reply

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