Famous Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon Hill

If it isn't your job to do it, perhaps it is your opportunity

Napoleon Hill

[E]very job is composed of many small details, any one of which, if overlooked, can create big problems later.

Napoleon Hill

Those who approach their jobs and careers with enthusiasm always find plenty of opportunities, while those who complain about no one ever giving them a chance are merely observers of life. When you are determined that you will not allow others to determine your future for you, when you refuse to allow temporary setbacks to defeat you, you are destined for great success. The opportunities will always be there for you.

Napoleon Hill

Discipline comes through self control. This means that you must control all negative qualities. Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself. Self-mastery is the hardest job you will ever tackle. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Napoleon Hill

You know, it's not more knowledge, it's not more education, it's not more facts that we need. It's a better use of what we already have that we need to have. You have each and every one of you, within your potential power right now to do a wonderful job in your chosen field - if you would only embrace it and use it.

Napoleon Hill

If you love, absolutely love what you are doing, chances are excellent that you will succeed. There is nothing so exhausting as working on a job you don't like.

Napoleon Hill

The person who works harder when the boss isn’t around is headed straight for a better job.

Napoleon Hill

If you do a job another's way, he or she must take the responsibility. If you do it your way, you must take the responsibility.

Norman Schwarzkopf

But I would defy anyone to go back over the years and tell me anyone whose career I've ruined, anyone whom I've driven out of the service, anyone I've fired from a job.

Norman Schwarzkopf

It is God's job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.

Norman Schwarzkopf

I can't say enough about the two Marine divisions. If I use words like 'brilliant,' it would really be an under description of the absolutely superb job that they did in breaching the so-called 'impenetrable barrier.' It was a classic- absolutely classic- military breaching of a very very tough minefield, barbed wire, fire trenches-type barrier.

Norman Schwarzkopf

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

Norman Schwarzkopf

I believe that forgiving them is god's function, our job is to arrange the meeting.

Norman Schwarzkopf

In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America. His answer..."I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting.

Northrop Frye

The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not to describe nature, but to show you a world completely absorbed and possessed by the human mind.

Norman MacCaig

But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Law Number XXIX: Executives who do not produce successful results hold on to their jobs only about five years. Those who produce effective results hang on about half a decade.

Norman Reedus

I'm not saying that I don't like the success of the job, but I really like going to work every day and I really like coming home and feeling satisfied with what I did today.

Orrin Hatch

Ending up in the right place in this debate requires starting in the right place. The right place to start is the proper discrimination of what judges are supposed to do, and the rest of the process should reflect this judicial job description.

Orrin Hatch

This principle that judges are not politicians lies at the very heart of a judicial job - of the judicial job description.

Oscar de la Renta

My job as a designer is to make a woman feel her very best

Orson Welles

Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money.

Orson Welles

Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.

Orson Welles

The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents....

Orson Welles

The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.

Orlando Bloom

I mean, I have a great job. I get to dress up and become somebody else, especially when it's someone like Legolas, who's this super-cool kind of otherworldly elf. It's, like, I'm lucky, man, so why would I not appreciate that?

Orhan Pamuk

More than anything I am a novelist. But for me, an author's job is not only to create linguistically accomplished works. As an author I also want to stimulate discussion.

Olivia Colman

I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.

Oliver Stone

You do the best job you can. You take it step by step. It's hard enough to make a movie. If it works, that's great. If it means something beyond the moment to somebody, they can take it and it lasts through the years, we'll see.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.

Michael Buerk

If you got the job in the first place mainly because you look nice, I can't see why you should keep it when you don't.

Michael C. Hall

I think we're really - we're doing a really great job doing our show, and other shows are doing a great job doing theirs, and we'll just see what people have to say.

Michael Cera

Acting is such a weird job.