Quotes about jobs
jobs naps games
All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics. Catherynne M. Valente
jobs mediums creator
Our job as creators is to further define any medium. Casey Neistat
jobs character emotion
Definitely, my approach is me-oriented. I feel like my job is to safeguard the believability of the emotions of the character. Casey Affleck
jobs hands people
And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one. Carl Karcher
jobs people helping
The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security Carl Levin
jobs men safety
Firefighters are essential to the safety and security of our local communities. We owe it to these men and women to provide them with better training and equipment so they can do their jobs more effectively and safely. Carl Levin
jobs guy kind
CEOs are paid for doing a terrible job. If the system wasn't so messed up, guys like me wouldn't make this kind of money. Carl Icahn
jobs real want
I want to be a millionaire, and I don't ever want a real job. Carl Lewis
jobs book writing
Y'see, I get so bored so easily. I like to start with a clean slate each time. Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job. Carl Hiaasen
jobs learned
We've all learned a lot about each other's jobs. James Williams
jobs men police
You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job. William Shakespeare
jobs way sticks
I'd love to have a shitty job. I couldn't hold any down. Standup was the only thing I could stick with. I'm an idiot that way. Louis C. K.
jobs people sense-of-humor
I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor. Louis C. K.
jobs memories crazy
I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out. Louis C. K.
jobs wall blow
The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said, “To provide touches of color in rooms with all-white walls.” Another one said, “To describe blow-jobs artistically. Kurt Vonnegut
jobs believe heart
Now, the engineers and managers believe with all their hearts the glorious things their forebears hired people to say about them. Yesterday's snow job becomes today's sermon. Kurt Vonnegut
jobs mind would-be
In every job, I would justify it in my mind, whether I loved it or hated it, that I was getting paid to learn and every experience would be of value when I figured out what I wanted to do when I grew up. Mark Cuban
jobs successful entrepreneur
What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? It takes willingness to learn, to be able to focus, to absorb information, and to always realize that business is a 24/7 job where someone is always out there to kick your ass. Mark Cuban
jobs business winning
I've learned the number one job of a pro manager is not to win championships but to keep their job. Mark Cuban
jobs inspiration winning
Every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry. Mark Cuban
jobs technology would-be
Do it because you love it. Then it’s not a job. I’m a geek. I love technology. I would be online working with technology regardless of what my day job is. Mark Cuban
jobs book reading
To retire by the age of 35 was my goal. I wasn't sure how I was going to get there though. I knew I would end up owning my own business someday, so I figured my challenge was to learn as much as anyone about all businesses. I believed that every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry. I spent as much time as I could, learning and reading everything about business I could get my hands on. I used to go into the library for hours and hours reading business books and magazines. Mark Cuban
jobs cutting government
I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement. Mark Cuban
jobs fighting creating
The same applies to the music and film industries. Until the heads of the labels start wanting to make money rather than creating controversy, tension, and excuses about why piracy is making the job so hard that no one could do it but them - and oh by the way, they need a raise to really focus in on the fight - the music industry is going to have a very tough time of it. Mark Cuban
jobs moving men
The bottom line is, the more we have a cadre of women moving up the scale, and it doesn't seem threatening, and people realize that women actually work much harder than men, and realize that they need more women in these jobs, I think that goes away. Madeleine Albright
jobs singing made
Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it. Charley Pride
jobs children military
After 14 months of military service, I had a wife, a child, half an apartment, no car, and no job. Charley Pride
jobs opportunity thinking
Our vision controls the way we think and, therefore, the way we act the vision we have of our jobs determines what we do and the opportunities we see or don't see. Charles Koch
jobs safe-environment best-job
So to the best we can, what we do is focus on creating value for others, and how do we do that? We do it by trying to produce products and services that our customers will value more than their alternatives, and not just their alternatives today, but what the alternatives will be in the future. We try to more efficiently use resources than our competitors, and constantly improve in that, and we try to do the best job we can in creating a safe environment, and environmental excellence, and constantly improve at that. Charles Koch
jobs work-out discipline
I learned that unless you start working, if you're frozen out of work, you will never learn the habits, the discipline, the values of cooperation and improvement unless you get a job, and that's what statistic show. It's, unless you get a job and keep it, you will not get out of poverty. If you do, you have a very good chance of working out of poverty. Charles Koch
jobs philosophy mutual-benefit
Best part of my job is fulfillment. When I see that, that we're creating value, that we're helping improve people's lives, and we benefit from it, so it's a system of mutual benefit. Our philosophy's working. That's what turns me on. That's what keeps me going. Charles Koch
jobs thinking years
I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in. Charles Kuralt
jobs good-luck years
I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air. Charles Kuralt