Job Quotes

Finally, you get the job, and you think you'll be dancing on the ceiling, but I just wanted to go take a nap. It was just like a weight had been lifted off or something.

I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job.

Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.

You know, it doesn't take a genius in the private sector to know that you can save literally hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending if you can make it more responsive. That's the main job.

We must continue, however, to send a strong message of resolve to the people of Iraq, to our troops, to our coalition partners, and to the rest of the world that we, the United States of America, will stay the course and get the job done.

I was a little hesitant at taking the job at Atari. I had never programmed for a living and I worried it might get boring (building circuits seemed more fun). But I would probably still be in the video game business.

A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.

This is a chance for me to listen and learn. There's no more important and rewarding part of my job.

I can't tell you how many people would say to me as a teenager, 'Why don't you grow up and start thinking about getting a real job?'

You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.

You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.

When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.

I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.

The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!

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.