Job Quotes

• I didn't know they would pay you money to sit in a room and write songs for other people. I always thought that George Strait was singing a song, he made it up, and that was the end of it. But the instant I found that out, that that could be a job, I thought, 'That's the job for me. I gotta figure out how to do that.'

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• Even if my job for the day is cleaning the vents or fixing the toilet, it still feels good to be a part of the space program and advancing exploration.

  

  Peggy Whitson
  • Good
  • Space
  • Cleaning

• Have you ever been offered a job by a poor person? No one has.

  

  Matt Bevin
  • Job

• We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.

  

  Joe Baca
  • Job
  • America
  • Training

• Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If I went to Morocco for 'Elle' magazine, I would be in the spice markets during my off time and just come back with a suitcase full of stuff that I really wanted to try.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Time
  • Country
  • Try

• I have friends who are movie stars, and I think it's just as hard a job as being a working actor. But it's a different job, and it's not the one I want.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Different
  • Friends
  • Movie

• Real emotion is good - or doing a good job of faking real emotion.

  

  Jimmy Kimmel
  • Good
  • Real
  • Job

• Back when I was 15 or 16, in Dallas there was a department store called Sanger-Harris. One holiday season, I got a job as a gift wrapper there. The others were all experts who did that job every year, and I was by far the youngest person, who was totally inexperienced. In those days, department stores around Christmastime were a total frenzy.

  

  Karen Katz
  • Job
  • Holiday

• NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.

  

  John F. Kerry
  • High
  • Future
  • Today

• I think that the press has a duty and an obligation to report on local government, state government, federal government - to be aggressive, to do its job. And its job is to report on whatever it's covering.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Job

• The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

  

  Christopher Lasch
  • Job

• Students today need experience to get a job, and they need a job to get experience. The Chegg Champion program provides students with a real-world working experience that actually offers financial rewards.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • World
  • Real
  • Experience

• Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: 'Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don't you realize that?' They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn't want to enter their minds.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Job
  • Boss

• Whether you stay private or go public, after all is said and done, a CEO's job is to create lasting shareholder value.

  

  Jay Samit
  • Done
  • Job
  • Value

• When it's complicated at family level, that can stop you from being at ease in your job.

  

  Dimitri Payet
  • Family
  • Job
  • Stop

• According to God's word, we haven't done a very good job concerning our little ones, nor our teens.

  

  Vanity
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• Although Senate Bill 1556 has received attention for its perceived focus, my job is to look at the actual substance of the legislation.

  

  Bill Haslam
  • Job
  • Attention
  • Focus

• There's no sense in doing something, especially if it's a hard job, if you can't have a little fun.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Doing

• I will never have a problem working with anybody. I will even work with a man if he dresses up like a woman, because it's my job. I am here to act.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Up
  • Work
  • Man

• Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I write, and it has been the best thing for me as a writer.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Job
  • Day
  • Best

• One of the things I've learned over the years is that you only do what you can do as an actor. You do the best job you can, but you have no control over so many elements that are going to determine the outcome of that film. I never pay attention to what happens after.

  

  Matt Dillon
  • Job
  • Control
  • Attention

• My first job as premier will be to go back to basics.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Job
  • First
  • Basics

• I went to Wellesley College, and it was really hard for me to get a job after I graduated. I would go into places where I would not see any black people at all in Boston - like, zero. And then in publishing in New York City, it was pretty much the same. I knew that it wasn't about the value of my work.

  

  Chirlane McCray
  • People
  • Work
  • Pretty

• I won't give up my day job of design.

  

  Kathy Ireland
  • Up
  • Job
  • Design

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