Jobs Quotes · Page 122

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

— J. K. Rowling

The central job of schools is to maximize the capacity of each students.

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

I consider myself the head coach whose job is to keep this winning team intact. I keep everybody focused and motivated.

— Monte Lipman

I started acting when I was 13, so acting has been, with great fortune, my job since I could get a job.

— Carla Gugino

One of the first jobs I ever had was opening clams in a seafood restaurant, so I'm pretty quick at it.

— Tom Colicchio

It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.

— Anonymous

I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a…

— Carl Paladino

It is not your job to seek for love. It IS your job to seek within yourself all the barriers against its…

— Marianne Williamson

My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. Id go wherever…

— Kate Walsh

So that's your job too, to clarify and simplify for everybody on your team. The more you simplify the better people will…

— Keith Rabois

My sister made certain choices about the life she wanted. Those choices include a steady job, a husband and children. But balance…

— Simon Sinek

Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is…

— Jim Butcher

When I was 19 years old, I was the number one star of the world for two years; when I was 40,…

— Mickey Rooney

One of the views of the [actor's] job is that whatever age you are, there's a role that's about who you are…

— Clive Owen

I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best…

— Dennis Miller

If we use our policy instruments wisely with regard to broadband, we can do some very practical things to make 'growth and…

— Viviane Reding

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific…

— Anna Quindlen

I ask you, how would you like your mom, your wife, your daughter to spend $100,000 to go to Harvard or some…

— Pam Grier

We’re all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the…

— Steven Pressfield

Some of the lowest-paid workers in this nation are people that we ask to watch the next generation of Americans. We do…

— Christopher Dodd

I know you are reporters and I know this is your job, but, you know, take your note pads, take your pencils…

— Maria Sharapova

Instruments of a trade are really fascinating to me. Things that enable you to do your job better. Rehabbing houses is really…

— Denison Witmer

If the fact that people make poor decisions is reason enough for the government to second-guess their decisions about dangerous activities such…

— Jacob Sullum

Movies that I remember working on, or things that I remember working on, are things that took years of struggle and strife…

— Brady Corbet

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have…

— Bette Davis

I was so happy and content with in life playing music. Music was always my first job and my day gig was…

— Bo Bice

Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.

— Shirin Ebadi

One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm.

— Tom Vilsack

You are not going to 'go forth.' You are going to take that damn hat off and you're going to get a…

— Bill Cosby

It's not so much a thankless task, it's more a job with no thanks

— Colin Baker

“if your job wasn’t performed by a cat or a boa constrictor in a Richard Scarry book I’m not sure I believe…

— Tim Krieder

Government jobs are not an addition to the country's payroll; they are an increase in the nation's payload.

— Ilana Mercer

If you really want to help the poor, help the rich. They're the ones who will invest, build more factories, create more…

— William E. Simon

Ralph [ Nader] is an old friend of mine, and he does a useful job in displaying a position.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.

— Alex Van Halen

It's not my job to look beautiful. It's my job to look interesting.

— Martha Graham

If I can be a working actor, if I can be an actor and not have a day job, I'll be fine.

— Colin Hanks

I lost my job and started painting houses with a friend. The marriage had ended about the same time the career did.

— John Dufresne

Raising children is the hardest job that there is on the face of the Earth.

— Ann Romney