Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Fallows

No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.

Laurence J. Peter

You could generally inform a real close friend: when you have manufactured a idiot of on your own he does not truly feel you've finished a long lasting job.

Laurence J. Peter

Two can live as cheaply as one - if they both have good jobs.

Laura Carmichael

I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.

Laura Dern

Luckily, I was raised by people whod already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didnt want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

Laura Hillenbrand

Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.

Larry Fitzgerald

My main focus is ball. I know what butters my toast. I know what my job is and what is expected of me, and that's what's first and foremost.

Larry Fitzgerald

I do what I'm coached to do. That's part of being a team leader and captain. The job will change week in and week out, and it's not for you to question what your job is - it's to go out there and execute your assignments.

Larry Flynt

You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.

LaMont Jordan

I think the media has done a good job portraying him being a bad person, when in reality he's not.

Lamar S. Smith

It would cost Americans their jobs when they have to compete with millions of more [immigrants] for scarce jobs.

Kwame Kilpatrick

The job of being president, understanding the particular policies that America has gotten itself into over the past 400 years.

Kyle MacLachlan

I can't get a job, I can't get arrested.

Liana Liberato

I don't ever want an acting to be a job. I want this to be an outlet for my creativity, and something I just simply enjoy doing. I don't ever want it to become something too serious.

Liana Liberato

Any actor has their moments of being stressed, but the great part about this job is that it's so unpredictable, and that's what I like. I love spontaneity. I don't ever want to be bored, doing the same thing from 9 to 5.

Liam Payne

I smile and think; This is my job, this is what I do for a living, and its what I’ve always wanted

Liev Schreiber

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

Liev Schreiber

I really do think that if you're doing your job right, you're never gonna be what the other actor was, but you can be influenced by his intelligence and his choices.

Liev Schreiber

You can think about your career or you can think about your job. I like to think about my job.

Liev Schreiber

A lot of times in Hollywood you're as good as your last job.

Libba Bray

Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.

Harvey Mackay

If you believe, as I do, that your employees truly are your most valuable asset, you will do whatever you can to help them do their jobs as well as possible.

Harvey Mackay

Just because an employee does things differently doesn't mean he or she won't do the job right or as well. If you establish expectations of the goal and the standards to follow, then methodology shouldn't be an issue.

Harvey Mackay

Like it or not, life is a series of competitions. You may be competing for a grade, a spot on a team, a job, or the largest account in town. The higher your self-esteem is, the better you get along with yourself, with others, and the more you'll accomplish.

Harvey Mackay

Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability.

Harvey Mackay

Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.

Harvey Mackay

You can't be passionate when you feel like it. You have to be passionate about your job, product or cause all the time. There's no off switch on a tiger.

Harvey Mackay

To me, job titles don't matter. Everyone is in sales. It's the only way we stay in business.

Harvey Mackay

Many, perhaps most, people who lose their jobs are mistaken about the reason for which they lost their jobs. Some will say that they're failures, others that their boss had it in for them, and others yet that they were sure their career ended because of a stupid faux pas they made at the company picnic.

Louise Erdrich

She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been caught up in one such collection of people and their doings after the next…The pleasure of this sort of life – bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life – had made her isolation into a rich and even subversive thing. She inhabited one consoling or horrifying persona after another…That she was childless and husbandless and poor meant less once she picked up a book. Her mistakes disappeared into it. She lived with an invented force.

Louise Hay

Learn to think in positive affirmations. Affirmations are any statements you make. Too often we think in negative affirmations. Negative affirmations only create more of what you say you don't want. Saying, “I hate my job,” will get you nowhere. Declaring, “I now accept a wonderful new job,” will open the channels in your consciousness to create that.

George Barna

It is not a church’s job to spiritually develop your children. Scripturally, it is the job of the parents. The church body is supposed to support parents in raising children, not replace them.