Quotes and Sayings About Jobs
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The hardest part of this year has been learning to enjoy it. It's almost like a full-time job reminding myself to live in the moment and not look for more, more, more...I see now that people who make movies, this world of creative geniuses that I grew up idolizing, are just normal people who wanted to do something and made it happen. Everything that's happened to me in the last year has only made me feel more like a normal person, more human, but in the most beautiful way.
-- America Ferrera -
As long as we continue to think we will be happy in the future, we will never be happy in the moment, and that is the same as saying that we will never be happy. If we think that our lives will be better when we get that better job or retire, stay or go, gain or lose weight, or when our children grow and leave or come back, we are putting off the happiness that there is in today.
-- Aminu Kano -
Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability.
-- Amitabh Bachchan -
Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job.
-- Amity Shlaes -
To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and the one great factor that affects all three: the long-term solvency of a bond company called the U.S. government.
-- Amity Shlaes -
Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it. When I reach the soul of one of my boys with an idea, or ideal, or vision, then I have done my job as a coach.
-- Amos Alonzo Stagg -
My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?
-- Amy Adams -
I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.
-- Amy Adams -
I still think I'm like the poor girl from Colorado who worked three jobs to buy a car. That's still my mentality, so I'll be walking down the street, and I forget what I do and who I am.
-- Amy Adams -
Senators don't really provide good gossip - until they do, and then it's an A1 story and they're out of a job.
-- Amy Argetsinger -
Your job in life is to look after yourself and to find ways to get what you need - emotionally and otherwise - so that you live your best possible life, without being mired in anger and hurt over the past.
-- Amy Dickinson -
We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.
-- Amy Goodman -
The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.
-- Amy Goodman -
My job ... I do nothing, it pays nothing, but - you guessed it - it's better than nothing.
-- Amy Hempel -
There is a sort of creative purity in an independent film, in the passion of the director, the passion of the crew. They're not getting a whole lot of money, so you know they are not there because they want to get rich. Instead, they are there because they want to make a movie. In the bigger films, I remember when I used to do those, it's just a job for a lot of people, so there is less of an intense energy devoted to the whole project.
-- Amy Irving -
In my job you can't just put your head in the sand and throw partisan bombshells. You have to get results.
-- Amy Klobuchar -
We have to do a better job of putting some rules on the insurance companies.
-- Amy Klobuchar -
Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise, a Supreme Court Justice must interpret the laws without fear or favor.
-- Amy Klobuchar -
Sleep can completely change your entire outlook on life. One good night's sleep can help you realize that you shouldn't break up with someone, or you are being too hard on your friend, or you actually will win the race or the game or get the job. Sleep helps you win at life.
-- Amy Poehler -
One of the great perks of being an actor is you're only as smart as the job you're in, you know, and you're only as informed as the job you're in, and you do become an expert, and you read all the books, but then there's a part of, like, you move on.
-- Amy Ryan -
I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out of high school.
-- Amy Ryan -
Some crafts have been practiced for centuries. These crafts were created using skills passed from generation to generation, and were motivated by necessity such as baskets and pottery, or artistic expression, such as more baskets and more pottery. Today, there is a much more leisurely attitude toward crafting, and virtually anyone without a job and access to pipe cleaners can join the elite society of crafters.
-- Amy Sedaris -
When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino -
My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.
-- Amy Tan -
My biggest accomplishment was playing "Lark" on the daytime drama Port Charles because it was the most regular acting job I have had, and I had to step in and fill someone else's shoes.
-- Amy Weber -
You know I enjoy modeling but at the end of the day it's a little bit mindless. I mean I was that person that would come home from a modeling job and have to clean the house because I sort of felt like, what the heck did I do today? You know I mean I'm like woo-hoo, I'm changing the world in these blue high heels and a string bikini.
-- Amy Weber -
It is only when the maker of things is a maker of things by vocation, and not merely holding down a job, that the price of things is approximate to their real value. . . .
-- Ananda Coomaraswamy -
People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.
-- Anatole Broyard -
My goal was to do anything that would lead to a job. I know that writing would not lead to a job. It's too fancy for me. My biggest goal was to be an office receptionist, answer phones. I didn't expect to go beyond that.
-- Anchee Min -
Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries
-- Anders Fogh Rasmussen
