Jobs Quotes - Page 469

The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do.

Is it hot in the rolling mill? Are the hours long? Is $15 a day not enough? Then escape is easy. Simply throw up your job, spit on your hands, and write another "Rosenkavailer."

Volunteer. Sometimes the jobs no one wants conceal big opportunities.

I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.

I think that women, especially women in my job, come to me because they know I'm very loving and nonjudgmental and I'm not competitive, and I've been through a lot.

I can do short jobs. If I was still starring in three movies every year, there's no way that I'd be the person my kids want when they fall down.

It’s much harder for me... I think it’s different when you have an office job, because it’s routine and, you know, you can do all the stuff in the morning and then you come home in the evening. When you’re shooting a movie, they’re like, 'We need you to go to Wisconsin for two weeks,' and then you work 14 hours a day and that part of it is very difficult. I think to have a regular job and be a mom is not as, of course there are challenges, but it’s not like being on set.

When you're a parent, you're just like, God, I hope they like me when they grow up. I hope that I did a good job. I hope they're gonna be happy.

Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.

I like the idea of taking what is essentially a boring, officious job and turning it into something that is a fantasy, to a degree. I suppose there is a juxtaposition involved in that because you do have to be a civil servant but you're doing a tremendously exciting job, or potentially an exciting job, or a glamourous job.

One of the interesting and exciting things about my job is watching technological ground being pioneered.

I've learned from the past that it's important to recharge and get time in-between jobs, and if I can't get time in-between jobs then when I know I've got some time coming up at the end of a job, really try and take advantage of that. And do very mundane things at home and putter in the garden and spend time with family and make music and, you know, play with the dogs. Just get back to being me.

I just can't talk about things before I do them, because just for me... I give energy away before I've put energy into the job.

I think it's our job to be happy and find happiness for ourselves.

As a journalist, you know you are doing your job properly when you manage to upset rich, powerful and entitled people who are used to getting their own way,and you know you’ve really got under their skin when they pursue censorship, the avenue of last resort since time immemorial.

In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up.

Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.

The art feeds my mind and soul and the job pays my bills. Finding the balance can be a challenge, but I am very fortunate for it.

I think that during the shoot, you should never be there, unless something goes really wrong and as producer, you're responsible. The sign you did your job right is if you are not there.

Because of my job, my hair gets played with a lot on set, so I try to give it little bit of breathing space when Im not working.

I don't have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.

I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.

For the past fourteen years, it's been my job to push past my boundaries and do things I never thought I could do, which is why it's been such a fulfilling career.

I've gotten jobs because I'm a woman, and I've lost jobs because I'm a woman. So just do the best work you can. It won't go unnoticed.

My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly's in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.