Job Quotes

• Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.

  

  Jim Talent
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Past

• Look at a guy like Ian McKellen, who is eighty or whatever, and he's just loving his work, and you can see that in the work. That defines what type of actor you are. And what kind of people want to work with you. And whether you can do this job for a long, long time.

  

  Jason Clarke
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Doing the press has become as much of a job as getting in front of the camera. You have to avoid burnout, avoid saying anything stupid, but still come across as yourself.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Job
  • Stupid
  • Yourself

• I find it is increasingly difficult to spend the time I need with my family and at the same time do the job that needs to be done.

  

  Brian Baird
  • Time
  • Family
  • Done

• I find it is increasingly difficult to spend the time I need with my family and at the same time do the job that needs to be done.

  

  Brian Baird
  • Time
  • Family
  • Done

• I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn't and so it's kind of an anathema for me to turn down work.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• Look for the light. Look for it in everything. Look for it in yourself, in your children, in your job, and in your dreams. Look for it in the food you eat and in the people you surround yourself with.

  

  Debbie Ford
  • People
  • Children
  • Food

• You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Job
  • Success
  • Road

• I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Coaching

• Frankly, I think if I won the lottery and won a billion dollars, I'd still want to continue doing this job. I love expressing myself through it. I've gotten to really love acting. And I've gotten to know Big Bird from the inside out so thoroughly it's like playing my kid. I can't imagine deliberately stopping.

  

  Caroll Spinney
  • Job
  • Bird

• In most professions, if you stay at the office an extra four hours every day, you're gonna impress the boss. You're gonna get that promotion; you're gonna get that raise. You're gonna at least have job security. But with acting, if you're really ambitious and you have a good work ethic and are really good at your job, it might not really matter.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Good
  • Work
  • Boss

• If a job fell from Heaven that was in America, I'd have a go, but I don't feel compelled to go and hunt it down.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • America
  • Heaven
  • Down

• There's plenty of days when I'm like 'Oh God, why?' But that's just life. It's every job, not just mine. Every moment is not perfect. But it's definitely more good times than bad. You can't even compare. And when I'm on stage it feels incredible.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

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

  

  Danny Masterson
  • Job
  • Funny
  • Summer

• Sometimes a scene works and acting is the easiest thing in the world and you don't have to do much of anything - just enjoy yourself and listen to the other actor. When it doesn't work, then every actor has different ways of dealing with the impasse. Sometimes you use memories from the past. Whatever. It depends from job to job.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • World
  • Work
  • Different

• It is unrealistic to expect an entire profession to be completely good. There are bound to be some individuals who are stressed, who are unkind, who are a bit rubbish at their job, who are in the wrong career.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Good
  • Job
  • Career

• First of all, we have seen now in six years of Obamacare that it has been a disaster. It is the biggest job-killer in this country. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, have been forced into part-time work, have lost their health insurance, have lost their doctors, have seen their premiums skyrocket.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Time
  • Work
  • Country

• What is so beautiful about a composer and a lyricist is that their job is to push a story along and not halt it.

  

  Keala Settle
  • Job
  • Beautiful

• What is so beautiful about a composer and a lyricist is that their job is to push a story along and not halt it.

  

  Keala Settle
  • Job
  • Beautiful

• Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do.

  

  Mary Lambert
  • Work
  • Job
  • Poetry

• My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to be totally different from themselves. That's my job, to be ready. I'm some kind of first responder.

  

  John Lithgow
  • Different
  • Character
  • Job

• I started quite late. I didn't know acting was a job.

  

  Pilou Asbaek
  • Job

• When I have a job to do, time means nothing. I lose patience with people who work on a clock.

  

  Don Cornelius
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• There is not a job I've held in my career that was held by a woman before me.

  

  Patricia A. Woertz
  • Career
  • Me
  • Woman

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