Job Quotes

I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.

People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

When you walk away from a really wonderful job like that, you start messing with everyone's priorities. It's like you're dissing them.

As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom.

I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description.

I may be only a fish and chip shop lady, but some of these economists need to get their heads out of the textbooks and get a job in the real world. I would not even let one of them handle my grocery shopping.

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!

The designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, drop them off at the wrong house.

Writing is hard work; it's also the best job I've ever had.

'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense.

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.