Job Quotes

And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job.

I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes.

Mitt Romney talks a lot about all the things he's fixed. I can tell you that Massachusetts wasn't one of them. He's a fine fellow and a great salesman, but as governor he was more interested in having the job than doing it.

My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good.

I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.

We've been doing this for 10 years and it's been a hobby for a lot longer than it's been a job.

Because when we're in space, my job is primarily getting us there and getting us back.

They keep extending these unemployment benefits to the point where people are afraid to go out and get a job, because the job doesn't pay as much as the unemployment benefit does.

You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job.

At its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking stories... and that requires virtually no technology.

The great thing about having a child is that it keeps you very grounded. When I decided to have my daughter I was ready to have that responsibility and I made it clear to people that I work with that my job was no longer my priority. My daughter is now my priority. She comes first. Period.

My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting.

I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there.

The industry's changed so much that you can't just design something, put on a great show, and say, 'Okay, my job is done.'

I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.

Writing a book is such a full-time job. If you're away for a few days, you have to start again.

Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.

And I've always - the competition is one aspect of the job, but I think if you're too busy worrying about the competition, you don't focus enough on what you're doing.

The fact of the matter is, this is a very dynamic economy we have, and in this dynamic economy, you have a lot of job gains, but you also have job loss.

My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I'm determined to do, whatever old clippings you dig out and whatever old quotes you put before me.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.

I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on.

If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.

A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.

Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is.

Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter,' never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.

As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.

I got a phone call from Douglas Campbell and from Jerome Guthrie, who offered me a job out of the blue.

The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.