Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philip Greenspun

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

Philip Glenister

Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and its a very strange one.

Peter Ustinov

Two members of my profession who are not urgently needed by my profession, Mr. Ronald Reagan and Mr. George Murphy, entered politics, and they've done extremely well. Since there has been no reciprocal tendency in the other direction, it suggests to me that our job is still more difficult than their new one.

Peter King

Again, we saw in Bosnia - we had U.N. peacekeepers tied to trees, being taken hostage. The fact is they don't have the type of deliberate and authoritative rule that I think is needed to get the job done.

Peter L. Berger

When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear.

Peter Fonda

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

Peter Bondra

My job is to score goals.

Peter Berg

I'm much more collaborative than I probably was when I was first starting, much more willing to say, "I don't know the answer to that." I have really talented people and let them do their jobs and not try to control everything as much as I did when I was starting. I was a bit more insecure.

Peter Berg

Working with composers often is a really frustrating experience because you speak a different language and, oftentimes, they take two or three jobs, at the same time. They're difficult and pretentious and they're tormented artists.

Penelope Cruz

I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much.

Pema Chodron

Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the job that we have, and the people who are in our lives. It's about seeing how we react to all these things. It's seeing our emotions and thoughts just as they are right now, in this very moment, in this very room, on this very seat. It's about not trying to make them go away, not trying to become better than we are, but just seeing clearly with precision and gentleness.

Phil Crosby

Many managers feel, somewhat cynically, that people are being paid to do their jobs and that's that. This attitude reflects an insensitivity to people that is a trademark of many hockey-style managers.

Phil Crosby

It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.

Peter Schiff

In a speech at the just-concluded G20 summit in London, President Obama urged Americans not to let their fears crimp their spending. It would be unwise, he argued, for Americans to let the fear of job loss, lack of savings, unpaid bills, credit card debt or student loans deter them from making major purchases. According to the president, 'we must spend now as an investment for the future'....instead of saving for the future, we must spend for the future.

Peter Schiff

Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that job.

Peter Schiff

The government can't create jobs; they'll destroy jobs trying to do it. The government doesn't have any money; all they have is a printing press. We need to free markets to create jobs; if the government wants to help, they should reduce their burden on the economy.

Peter S. Beagle

How's the Angel of Death supposed to do his job with clipped wings?

Peter O'Toole

It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.

Peter Hollingworth

There are no training courses to make people bishops. You have to learn on the job.

Peter Jacobson

Of course, on every job there are moments where you're not having fun.

Peter Jackson

I think that's the job of a director really - to sort of funnel all the creativity into one centralized point of being.

Peter Costello

You know in politics you are dealing in the realm of choices. You don't always have clear-cut decision between a thoroughly principled position and a thoroughly unprincipled one. You're making snap decisions with paucity of information, generally trying to do the best that you can, but you will make errors, and sometimes it's a decision between a bad and a worse alternative. It has to be done, because we need to order our society, and of politics it can literally be said: Bad job, but someone's got to do it.

Peter Cook

Job was what you'd technically describe as a loony.

Peter Cook

All in all I'd rather have been a judge than a miner. And what's more, being a miner, as soon as you are too old and tired and sick and stupid to do the job properly, you have to go. Well, the very opposite applies with judges. *

Pete Rozelle

At least I'm going into the job with clean hands.

Pearl Cleage

...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.

Pedro Martinez

None of the teams that actually probably were offering me a job from the getgo, actually in spring training, are in the playoffs right now.

Pierre Trudeau

If there is anything that puzzles me in this game, it is that the longer that you are in the job of prime minister, the harder you have to work to do your job. With anything else ....you get to know the ropes pretty well and it becomes easy. I feel the more you know, the more you have to know and the more problems come at you. It is certainly not because I do not delegate.

Pierre Trudeau

I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

Phoebe Tonkin

I think Americans are probably getting sick of us Australians trying to take their jobs.

Phylicia Rashad

Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.

Philip Pullman

She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying, if it was done in a seamanlike way. She was very taken with this notion, and later on she folded the blankets on her bunk in a seamanlike way, and put her possessions in the closet in a seamanlike way, and used 'stow' instead of 'tidy' for the process of doing so. After two days at sea, Lyra decided that this was the life for her.

Philip Pullman

A story, to me, has a particular sprite, like the angel of the spirit of that story - and it's my job to attend to what it wants to do.