Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Rumsfeld

Have a deputy and develop a successor. Don't be consumed by the job or you'll risk losing your balance. Keep your mooring lines to the outside world - family, friends, neighbors, people out of government, and people who may not agree with you.

Donald Miller

Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen.

Donald Miller

Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.

Donald Miller

When I started studying the issue and issues related to fatherlessness, I realized I had all of them. Fear of intimacy, fear of commitment, poor work ethic, just stuff that you don't have when you don't have a man in your life to look you in the eye and say, "You're good," or "Good job."

Don Richardson

Over the past six years [since implementing RIMS] we have added very few additional full-time jobs, but we have brought in $120 million of new business . . . These efficiencies have really given us the ability to take advantage of new opportunities and expand our business.

Don Nickles

I hope there will be some good news and some good profits, and people will realize we have a lot of outstanding executives, and a lot of companies that are doing a good job, and those are good companies to invest in.

Don Henley

It's an inside job to learn about forgiving, it's an inside job to hang on to the joy of living.

Dwayne McDuffie

I've always felt that the cool thing about being a writer is that all you need is paper to do the job.

Dweezil Zappa

Everybody else goes out and plays a show as if it's their album, which is boring. I'd rather sit at home and listen to the album, because I hate to be in a smoke-filled, loud room - that's not enjoyable for me at all...I always look up to guys who can sit and do dinner music...they're singing in tune and playing somebody else's music, and I don't think I could do that...it's the shittiest job in the world.

Dwayne Johnson

But being on location and shooting, whether its in Puerto Rico or Atlanta, it always reminds me of how really cool my job can be. Interacting with the fans is one of the best parts of it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Take your job seriously, but not yourself

Dwight D. Eisenhower

It will begin with its President taking a simple, firm resolution. The resolution will be: To forego the diversions of politics and to concentrate on the job of ending the Korean war-until that job is honorably done. That job requires a personal trip to Korea. I shall make that trip. Only in that way could I learn how best to serve the American people in the cause of peace. I shall go to Korea.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Innovations and discoveries have created new industries giving more and more Americans better jobs and adding greatly to the prosperity and well being of all.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

More than any single action by the government since the end of the war, this one would change the face of America with straightaways, cloverleaf turns, bridges, and elongated parkways. Its impact on the American economy-the jobs it would produce in manufacturing and construction, the rural areas it would open up-was beyond calculation.

Colleen Haskell

I don't know if I'm going to do any more acting. It's a great job, you know? Make a movie? Why not?

Colleen Haskell

I don't think I've found the perfect job for me, but I know what I like, so that's halfway there, right?

Colleen Haskell

I wish I knew what was next. I got this movie without planning to. I'm really excited to be continuing in film because it's a great job but I have my portfolio and resume for any other opportunity.

Colleen Atwood

Be able to take any job that gives you experience on a film. Don't just think that you have to be in one department or the other, because through working on one and seeing what other people do in the movie makes you realize what your role is if you become a costume designer.

Claudia Christian

The busier you are, the more interesting you are. The more you're off doing your thing and loving your job and your life, that's fascinating.

Claudia Rankine

When you achieve it fully, you create something that's transparent - that people can move into and through their own experiences. As a writer, I don't want people spending time thinking, "What does she mean?" I want, in a way, my text to go away. So that the words on the page become a door to one's own internal investigation. It's just a passage. If the work does its job, it just opens.

Dalai Lama

If you're looking for work and have a choice of a job, choose a job that allows the opportunity for some creativity, and for spending time with your family. Even if it means less pay...

I know I can go in and do a sufficient job. I don't know if I can go in and do the type job Ed did.

I know a lot of people that do work there. I don't know what they're going to do for work. There's nothing around here. No jobs so it's really a tough situation.

John Beck

I know I have to do my job for us to win,

I know I have a job. I'm a starter. That's what they signed me here to be.

Anna Popplewell

I really like being on set when you've all moved on a job because it makes you bond very quickly. You're all out of your time and comfort zone, so you kind of only have each other.

I played there before two or three years ago. It's just so different. I had to think about what I was doing. I just tried to go out there and get the job done.

Jeb Bush

In Washington, particularly, the loyal opposition has a job to be the opposition. But you can't stop there.

Les Miles

I offered him the job three times before he took it,

In these conditions, the job Gianini did was pretty special.

In the past, people have been nominated that did not know anything about the job or the time involved.

Jeff Francis

I really didn't think he was going to take me out. I was surprised. But it's not really my job to second-guess those things. We won the game, that's the most important thing, so I'm not too worried about it.

I really can't say enough about the three singles players. They really get the job done.