Quotes on Job

My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer.

Author: Paula Abdul

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

Author: Bella Abzug

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

Author: Red Adair

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Author: Douglas Adams

If a job's worth doing, it's too hard.

Author: Scott Adams

In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world.

Author: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

It's my job, but I think it is too much.

Author: Jean Alesi

The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.

Author: Lamar Alexander

The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.

Author: Ted Allen

The tougher the job, the greater the reward.

Author: George Allen, Sr.

But there was not a job that could say that Luther Allison didn't do his job.

Author: Luther Allison

I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.

Author: Kevin Anderson

I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory.

Author: Kevin Anderson

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

Author: Francesca Annis

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano.

Author: Fiona Apple

It's still the same job, the same anxieties, but it did feel a lot different, that kind of budget, that schedule, and frankly, the slowness of it all, and also having a lot of other units working.

Author: Michael Apted

Getting to play superheros is a pretty good job.

Author: Shawn Ashmore

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

Author: Fred Astaire

You never get every job you want.

Author: Mackenzie Astin

In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job.

Author: Rowan Atkinson

If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.

Author: Rene Auberjonois

It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.

Author: Paul Auster

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

Author: Francis Bacon

Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.

Author: Robert Bakker

I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.

Author: Ralph Bakshi

There isn't a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn't have a second job, for when there is no wind.

Author: Johnny Ball

Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?

Author: Christine Baranski

The personal thing is something I have never talked about. And I never will. That is prohibited. My job is public. But that's it. When you're not working, you don't have an obligation to be public.

Author: Javier Bardem

Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!

Author: Dave Barry

While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise.

Author: Maria Bartiromo

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

Author: Josh Billings

I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible.

Author: Juliette Binoche

One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them.

Author: Rod Blagojevich

I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job.

Author: Alexis Bledel

This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it.

Author: Andrew Bogut

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.

Author: Edward Bond

Shooting a television show can be very difficult and at times can really wear on you. If you keep reminding yourself that it is a job and you show up together as a team and as a whole, you can prevail.

Author: David Boreanaz

I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck.

Author: Ernest Borgnine

It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays. That's what I did.

Author: Drew Brees

And you know, I said yesterday, you know, you know, if they're not going to - if the feds aren't going to do their job, well, then, I'm up to suing the feds to make them do their job! I mean, they sued Arizona, you know, we can sue them back! I mean, they're not - they're not enforcing the laws!

Author: Jan Brewer

What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place.

Author: Tom Brokaw

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

Author: H. Brown, Jr.

That's where my job comes in. Getting the E.U. and U.S. to agree.

Author: John Bruton

I like that sense of we're all on the same page and trying to get the job done.

Author: Peabo Bryson

The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it.

Author: William Buckley, Jr.

If you're interested or like it, but could be just as happy living in a regular town, having a regular job, maybe doing little theatre, you're better off and you'll be a happier person. This is too gut-wrenching and heartbreaking.

Author: Delta Burke

One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

Author: Barbara Bush

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

Author: George Bush

That was kind of scary. You got the sense as a little kid that you might be at risk now, and then you're like, 'Why are we at risk? It's because my grandfather is in charge of all of this.' You can't really realize the magnitude of a job like that when you are eight.

Author: Lauren Bush

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

Author: Eric Butterworth

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

Author: John Campbell

I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.

Author: Eric Cantor

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

Author: Duane Carey

Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.

Author: David Caruso

You just go in and try to do the best job you can everyday.

Author: Nick Cassavetes

I would be sad if it ended now. It's been the best job I've had by a long shot, especially creatively because the writing is so good. Every week I get the script and I laugh out loud and get excited for the different stuff we get to do.

Author: Sarah Chalke

When his nomination comes before the United States Senate, Timothy Batten can count on my strong support... He is the right person for the job.

Author: Saxby Chambliss

If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it.

Author: Joan Chen

And it seems to me correct then, and I think it's correct now, that job one is get the planning done, make sure the buses are there. When that's done, it's completely appropriate to go around and tour around and look at the damage.

Author: Michael Chertoff

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.

Author: Lee Child

I take my job as a rock and roll sax player very seriously. To do it the way that I must do it, I must be in good condition. The better shape you're in, the harder you can rock.

Author: Clarence Clemons

I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.

Author: William Clinton

Well, I'm not saying that we're solving every problem or arresting every person that ought to be arrested and deported, but we're doing a better job than has been done in the past.

Author: Thad Cochran

I had a job when I was 16 at a gas fitter, which was a bit like a pipe fitter.

Author: Joe Cocker

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

Author: Stephen Collins

If kids come to educators and teachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important.

Author: Barbara Colorose

What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.

Author: Robbie Coltrane

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

Author: Calvin Coolidge

Universal was absolutely marvelous about sitting down with me and listening to my input. It wasn't something where they chose a bunch of songs that were best sellers. They did a marvelous job on the packaging. It's a beautiful tribute.

Author: Rita Coolidge

A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.

Author: Jackie Cooper

When a man does a household job, he goes through three periods: contemplating how it will be done; contemplating when it will be done; and contemplating.

Author: Marcelene Cox

As busy as I claim to be, I've still got the greatest job in the world.

Author: Peter Criss

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.

Author: Walter Cronkite

You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.

Author: Kaley Cuoco

Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point.

Author: Lloyd Cutler

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.

Author: Blythe Danner

I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab.

Author: Larry David

The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws.

Author: Jacques Delors

I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job.

Author: Jacques Delors

The emphasis should be on why we do a job.

Author: W. Deming

I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.

Author: Judi Dench

I'm off at least three or four days a week, so it's a perfect job, really.

Author: James Denton

I'll look and pick the best, and the one who can do the best job for the party.

Author: John Dingell

I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.

Author: David Dinkins

I'm off to save the universe again. It's a tough job but someone has to do it, and I'm glad it's me.

Author: Lexa Doig

If I am taking a job, I really want to do it 100% on a daily basis, and that's not what I can do right now.

Author: Thomas Dooley

If I would take a job with a professional league, I need to be ready.

Author: Thomas Dooley

My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?

Author: Tammy Duckworth

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

Author: John Dunne

So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did - played records.

Author: Dick Dyke

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

Author: Shirin Ebadi

Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran.

Author: Shirin Ebadi

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Author: Dwight Eisenhower

All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.

Author: Julie Eisenhower

But for every hour and a half on stage, you have a five hour long bus ride, waiting for five hours at the airport, five hours of interviews... I know, it's part of the job, but that doesn't imply I have to like it.

Author: Andrew Eldritch

Pretty Woman was the easiest job I've ever done. I just wore the right toupee.

Author: Hector Elizondo

I'm very pleased with the job President Bush is doing and he's off to a terrific start.

Author: John Engler

I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States.

Author: Richard Ernst

Waitressing - by far the worst job ever created.

Author: Jennifer Esposito

Managers have very tough jobs. I always respected their job but demanded respect in return.

Author: Jim Evans

We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job.

Author: William Feather

My abilities grow with each job, whether it's writing or directing. When I stop learing, I'll stop working.

Author: Peter Fonda

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.

Author: Malcolm Forbes

If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job.

Author: Harrison Ford

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.

Author: Abe Fortas

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

Author: Jodie Foster

The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job.

Author: John Frankenheimer

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Author: John Galbraith

Going from Flip to Kev, obviously you don't want to see someone ever lose their job. For me it's probably a little more difficult, because other than Bill Blair, Flip is all I knew.

Author: Kevin Garnett

If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.

Author: Harold Geneen

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

Author: Elizabeth George

Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.

Author: William Glasser

Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.

Author: Cary Grant

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

Author: Gunter Grass

It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility.

Author: Colin Greenwood

If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.

Author: Andy Grove

If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.

Author: Tom Hanks

Well for six years during Cheers I couldn't get another job.

Author: Woody Harrelson

I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.

Author: Ed Harris

If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.

Author: Ed Harris

I'd like to be remembered as someone who showed up for the job. I consider myself a worker.

Author: Ernie Harwell

I don't think I've found the perfect job for me, but I know what I like, so that's halfway there, right?

Author: Colleen Haskell

I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.

Author: Steven Hatfill

A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.

Author: William Hearst

As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky.

Author: Chris Hemsworth

Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world.

Author: Andy Hertzfeld

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Author: Napoleon Hill

I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously.

Author: Paris Hilton

You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this.

Author: Alice Hoffman

I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much.

Author: Celeste Holm

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

Author: Lou Holtz

Bobby is really the one who did all the editing on that stuff. And he did all the mixing. I particularly like the record we did with Logic because Scott Harding did a great job mixing it. He's really a killing engineer.

Author: Charlie Hunter

When someone gets a job, it better be clear what they did to get it.

Author: Mark Hurd

Our job is to execute.

Author: Mark Hurd

An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.

Author: Ada Huxtable

When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job.

Author: Miguel Icaza

Yeah, for some reason parrots have to bite me. That's their job. I don't know why that is. They've nearly torn my nose off. I've had some really bad parrot bites.

Author: Steve Irwin

We must do a better job of educating all drivers to be safer on the road.

Author: Johnny Isakson

The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them.

Author: Alec Issigonis

After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.

Author: Alphonso Jackson

It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming.

Author: Victoria Jackson

Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days.

Author: Helmut Jahn

When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.

Author: Jerry Jenkins

I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.

Author: Joan Jett

I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once.

Author: Roland Joffe

If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job.

Author: Ian John

It's my job to really commit myself to the material and the project and be proud of what I've done, and I am in most cases.

Author: Don Johnson

I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.

Author: Chuck Jones

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.

Author: Franklin Jones

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

Author: Jeffrey Jones