Quotes about jobs
jobs mean people
People are only mean when they're threatened… and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about losing them. And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture. Morrie Schwartz
jobs book thinking
I think that we did a really good thing when we elected Barack Obama. I read his books. He is absolutely and totally qualified for the job. He's proven himself to be not only qualified for the job, but very good at it. The things that he's managed to get accomplished in the face of so much push-back is amazing, and I think - this is Morgan Freeman's personal thought - we're going to be in a lot of trouble if we don't reelect him, because the people on the other side of the fence scare me. Morgan Freeman
jobs want bed
You want to retire from a job you're not that all enamoured with. I love what I do. I want to keep doing it till I can't get out of bed doing it.
jobs passion thinking
I think you take a job, you owe it as much passion as the job itself demands. And most jobs demand that you be totally committed.
jobs lying tunnels
I'm not digging tunnels, I'm not building buildings. My work is not hard, my work is refreshing, my work is pleasant. The more the better. Lying around and getting no job is debilitating.
jobs challenges looks
Every job's a challenge. The challenge is to do it and make it look right, like you belong there - wherever that is.
jobs business care
I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it.
jobs asking titles
Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright?
jobs actors hard
Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.
jobs mean thinking
I never think about awards or anything like that when I do a job. I was first named a best actor when I was 12 years old and it doesn't really mean anything when you get down to it, because there is no best. I don't get all that invovled. My chest puffs up as much as I can puff it up but I am not trying to be better than the person I am acting with. I am trying to be at least as good. That's how it works.
jobs real character
That's your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.
jobs jewels wind
Your job is always the same if it's a juggernaut or if it's just one of these little jewels of a film that's gonna wind up at the Laemmle or something, so your job doesn't change whatsoever... give it your best shot.
jobs struggle bread
Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen.
jobs bombs plutonium
My job was to produce plutonium that was used for atomic bomb. Mordechai Vanunu
jobs hydrogen-bomb bombs
And I also take photos of hydrogen bomb, from another part of the building. It was not part of my job, but I succeeded to go and take photos of the hydrogen bomb.
jobs accidents has-beens
Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get. Moon Unit Zappa
jobs opportunity people
Understandably, no peace can sustained when people continue to suffer from hunger, lack of jobs, lack of basic public services - and most of all - lack of opportunity or hope. Mikhail Saakashvili
jobs thinking
I never count my money. I think that's your job. Mikhail Prokhorov
jobs stars crazy
An actor goes crazy in a hotel room, gets trashed, throws a bench, breaks a window, and he is considered a rock star. An actress does that and she's sent to rehab and is thought to have problems and issues and can't get a job. Mila Kunis
jobs believe humble
I learned that when you do the best job that you can do, some people will idolize you, others won't care, and some will vilify you. I believe it is important to remain humble and thankful for the blessings in our lives, for the tremendous opportunities that are a result of our musical success. Mike Love
jobs creation
We can't legislate the creation of jobs, but we can legislate things that will allow jobs to be created. Mike Lee
jobs would-be want
One of the reasons the whole Hollywood way of making films wouldn't work for me is because the way I operate would be anathema to anyone who wants to hold a job down in Beverly Hills. Mike Leigh
jobs together ensemble
My job apart from anything else is to build an ensemble composed of actors who all come from a secure place so that they can all work together to make the film.
jobs trends want
I take no notice of the trends. It has never concerned me at all. My job is to deal with what I want to deal with and reach an audience by doing so.
jobs thinking imagination
I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier. Miguel Ferrer
jobs done outstanding
When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job. Miguel de Icaza
jobs men years
There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more. Joseph Barbera
jobs disappointment character
Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time, are precisely the kinds of experiences that stretch our understanding, build our character, and increase our compassion for others. Joseph B. Wirthlin
jobs get-better lessons
There are lessons in everything. The bad, the good. Our job is to listen, and to continue to learn, so that maybe we get better at this. Maybe get better at life. Laverne Cox
jobs years people
Edwards commented as he signed an extension to his contract. They had changed coaches every three or four years before my getting the head job. It was just going to be a matter of when I got fired. There were a lot of people that felt that. LaVell Edwards
jobs book hymns
Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those Google scanners crouched in the basements of libraries around the world, madly feeding books through their machines. I download obscure tomes onto my iPad and give thanks to the dual gods Gates and Jobs, singing hymns to all the lesser pantheon of geniuses. But there's nothing like a book. Laurie R. King
jobs office waiting
You say, Wait a minute, God, you spared me from a slave job in an office, and now I have a slave job onstage. I am not on that clock no more. Lauryn Hill
jobs believe sound
I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe. Laura Marling