Jobs Quotes · Page 110

“I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.” The”

— Norton Juster

Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions...that get us to the right answer.

— Bill Buxton

I've never liked the press part of it (no offense), but it comes with the job.

— Devon Sawa

On February 17th, Four weeks from [Barack Obama's] inauguration, he signed a bill which saved or created 4 million jobs.

— Nancy Pelosi

My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.

— Becca Fitzpatrick

“If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

As long as I'm an hour away from a major airport, I can get to that job.

— Michael Moriarty

I don't consider my work a job. I consider it a career. And you don't quit a career.

— Candace Bushnell

There were a zillion bad jobs. That doesn't exist any more. I mean, I could wake up one afternoon with zero money…

— Fran Lebowitz

Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out,…

— Eddie Rickenbacker

Political job is not a business job but it is a job of the people who have generous heart who want to…

— Khem Veasna

I never knew anybody who was unhappy with their job and was happy with their life. It's your sense of purpose. Now,…

— Bruce Springsteen

The trick is to start early in our careers the stress-relieving avocation that we will need later as a mind-exercising final vocation.…

— William Safire

Trust is a function of both character and competence. Of course you can't trust someone who lacks integrity, but if someone is…

— Stephen Covey

I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered,…

— Sandra Cisneros

I had a Masters of Fine Arts, but so did thousands of other graduates every year, and we were all competing for…

— Kurt Wagner

Being a goalkeeper gives you quite a unique perspective on things. You are part of a team yet somehow separate; there are…

— Brad Friedel

We know that expanded access to natural gas is important to families and businesses in communities across Ontario. That's why our government…

— Brad Duguid

When I was in the second grade, one of my teachers said, "Where are you going to find a husband? How are…

— Lupita Nyong'o

I want to design for the working women. Okay well - it sounds like 90% of us are that. But really, we…

— Sarah Lafleur

I'd just like to see thinking come back in style. I haven't heard a new idea in eight years. Let's get ordinary…

— Timothy Leary

When I landed in L.A. in early '89, William Morris decided to take me on to see if I could get any…

— Thomas Haden Church

Public officials insult our intelligence and our goodwill when they paint rosy pictures about budgets, jobs, bipartisanship, and transparency, and alter their…

— Anonymous

As you probably know, half of the people who work in this country work for small businesses. And it's more than that,…

— Karen Mills

“You don’t get paid to go to work; you get paid to get the job done.”

— Frank Sonnenberg

The C.E.O.'s job in a creativity-driven company is to be an impresario, not a manager.

— John Kao

It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.

— David Mamet

The pro-growth policies of Congress have helped created new jobs in the region and across the country.

— Tim Murphy

There are 300,000 new jobs and Bush said he's confused, 'Can I take credit for good news that I didn't even make…

— Craig Kilborn

I don't need to be fixed anymore. That job's already been done. I love you, Annabelle. -Heath Champion-

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

As a president, my job is not to promote a religion, my job is to call people to serve our country.

— George W. Bush

My brother's a teacher in Costa Rica and actually does a more important and significant job than I will ever do.

— Dominic Monaghan

Part of my dogsbody job during the 1983 election was choosing Mum's missile-proof clothes. They had to be disposable.

— Carol Thatcher

[George Clooney] knows exactly what he wants and so he knows that you've done a good job before you do.

— John Krasinski

Every time I fold the baby's clothes I feel like a giant that got a housekeeping job with a nice family.

— Dana Gould

People wonder whether I got my presenting job as a result of my own abilities or because of Gordon, which is a…

— Tana Ramsay

The singular sign of a parent who is doing their job is their unwillingness to let their children watch the Star Wars…

— Heather Armstrong

I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.

— Donald Glover

Everything that you want to create is already there. Your job is to connect yourself to it.

— Wayne Dyer

Someone is going to have to explain to me at some time how raising taxes on job-creators is going to create more…

— Jim Jordan