Job Quotes

The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job.

My definition of an executive's job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.

I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job.

Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.

I had a job when I was 16 at a gas fitter, which was a bit like a pipe fitter.

I sometimes struggle, because my job is like the antithesis of what surfing is all about. Surfing's simple. It's real.

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine.

I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned.

Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people.

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.

I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job.

The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.

I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it.

I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job.

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor.

The debate on how to shrink the federal government is at the core of our problem of government not doing its job.

I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue.

Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.

It seemed like my favourite kind of job - a wonderful chance to ask something absolutely fundamental: the fate of the Universe and whether the Universe was infinite or not.

In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper.

It's the job of a special advisor to be the eyes and ears of a minister and it's the job of a corporate lobbyist to represent the best interests of their organization.