Job Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time.

But the problem with coaching is that it is a full-time job. By that I mean for at least 40 weeks in a year you have to be with the player, either travelling or training. Right now I don't want to do that.

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

I have called the co-host job at the 'Today Show' my dream job, and I would be lying if I said it was easy to leave that job.

Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them.

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

The Germans have done wonderful work. Not long ago, a German battle group battalion conducted a very impressive counterinsurgency operation in a portion of Baghlan province. I think these are the first counterinsurgency operations conducted by any German element after World War II. And they did a very impressive job.

Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family.

Don't get too caught up in making money or having a job, get excited about the fact that you can design your life.

I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.

We must start with the reality that corporations cannot guarantee anyone a lifetime job any more than corporations have a guarantee of immortality.

The next day I was put on paid leave from my new job at Louisiana State University. This is very painful to me, though once again I understand the circumstances in which my employers find themselves in light of these actions taken against me.

When it comes to the economy, my highest priority as President will be worrying about your job, not saving my own.

We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done.