Quotes and Sayings About Jobs
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There were moments when I wondered at the gossamer veil that stops licence from being libel. I suspect that taking on the job of England manager puts you outside the protection of the courts. It must be part of the job description that you will be held hostage by media speculation and can have your character tortured, molested and finally executed at the public whim, in exchange for a lifetime's supply of money.
-- A. A. Gill -
This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
-- A. N. Wilson -
The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
-- A. N. Wilson -
My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others who start wars. In short - and don't quote me, because this is an incomplete expression of a more complex premise - I believe blow jobs prevent war.
-- A.M. Homes -
You have to enjoy your job; you should wake up every day and love what you do... I honestly do... From the bottom of my heart to the depths of my soul. I'm truly happy.
-- Aaliyah -
I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.
-- Aaron Levie -
Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
-- Aaron Levie -
An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.
-- Aaron Sorkin -
The best compliment was Ben Kingsley coming up to me, putting his hand on the back of my neck, and saying, "Good job, son.".
-- Aaron Stanford -
I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
-- Aaron Yoo -
An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
-- Aasif Mandvi -
The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
-- Abdallah II -
The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.
-- Abdul Kalam -
I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.
-- Abe Fortas -
Critics have a job to do. They do not criticize you without reason.
-- Abhishek Bachchan -
No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done. Every day, you get up and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.
-- Abigail Johnson -
Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you're supervised or not; finish a job once it's started; carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.
-- Abraham Verghese -
When I use the word 'healing,' by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we're very good at handling, but there's always a sense of the violation. 'Why me?' 'Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else's?' And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.
-- Abraham Verghese -
The job at Brooklyn is interesting because Brooklyn reflects what happened to university art departments everywhere. It might be the worst department now, and yet at one point it was the best in the country.
-- Ad Reinhardt -
An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
This is advice I would give to any young actor - if you go into a room with anybody and you come in with a positive attitude and a place of love, and you truly do love what you're doing, then the negative energy doesn't even get into the room. You just have to prepare, and then go in and be the best you that you can be, and you'll either get the job or you won't.
-- Adam Baldwin -
What I try to do is to appreciate every job I have while I'm working on it.
-- Adam Baldwin
