Job Quotes
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To do my job well, I have to be a good listener. The listening is so much more important than the talking.
Brad Listi
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There is a pressure, but my job essentially is not to listen to that pressure, not to buckle underneath that pressure, but instead to continue making music in the way that I have been making it.
Jack Garratt
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People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary to get the job done.
Stephen Covey
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Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.
Andrew Scott
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I think the Chinese government is doing a great job right now.
Alex Chiu
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Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world.
Andy Hertzfeld
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I remember standing outside of the dorm by the little terrace. I was going to do this job that I wasn't 100 percent certain of, which ended up being much more fun than I expected [in So Notorious].
Zachary Quinto
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The only things I had to look forward to in life was a job and a career and a family and just going through the whole cycle. It just seemed like what everybody else was doing. And I looked at people around me. I looked at the people that taught the schools and around the government, and I looked at the type of work that my father did, and none of it really interested me that much. And when I first took psychedelics, I felt like I was admitted into a world of compassion and beauty and creativity. It was like nothing I had experienced in my regular life. And almost instantly that became the goal of where I wanted to be...
D. M. Turner
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams
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If you're going to be a model, what's going to get you the job on a go-see and makes you stand out, it might not be your lipstick or your portfolio or what you're wearing, it might come from your core being.
Andre Leon Talley
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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
Alexandre Dumas
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A spacecraft cockpit interior is a set where there are a lot of little techy bits, control panels and graphics displays, and other things that are kind of a job to manufacture well.
John Knoll
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I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
Jennifer Aniston
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It's so much nicer to be able to do your job with someone who's helping you, and you're helping them. Then, it becomes a tennis match where you're hitting the ball back and forth, and you're a team.
Aneurin Barnard
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I think being in a band is probably the only job when you're actively encouraged to be out of it most of the time.
Martin Gore Depeche Mode
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Every artist and every song has an idea, and the producer's job is to capture it.
Jimmy Iovine
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If you don't have a job, you don't have a fear of losing it. You fear having to get one.
Chuck Klosterman
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I really believe I have just the greatest job. My marching orders are to go out and find a good story.
J. M. Roberts
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My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.
Michael K. Williams
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I think women in general, we just soldier on. Whatever it takes, you just have to do it. It's your job. Whatever it is.
Marcia Clark
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When I went to the Yellow Cab Company I passed the Cancer Building and I remembered that there were worse things than looking for a job you didn't want.
Charles Bukowski
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In general I saw my job as the first president whose full term would be served after the Cold War in a global information society where we were interdependent but not integrated. And therefore, we were vulnerable to the worst, and able to seize the best, of what's going on in the world.
Bill Clinton
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If I don't feel like I'm doing the job well, and I don't know how to get there, or I'm too scared, or whatever, I'm not a happy guy and I'm not pleasant. I'm not pleasant to be around.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
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We have transformed our colleges from places of higher learning into places for the technical training of poorly prepared young men and women who need a degree to get a job in a college-crazy society.
Eugene Genovese