Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeremy Corbyn

Labour has the responsibility to give a lead where the government will not. We need to bring people together, hold the government to account, oppose austerity and set out a path to exit that will protect jobs and incomes.

Jeremy Corbyn

People apply for a job, are asked to work for three or four weeks on probation and are then told to go and are replaced by colleagues. There are shops even in the West End [of London] using large numbers of totally unpaid staff on a permanent basis.

Jeremy Grantham

I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them right. End of job description.

Eugene H. Peterson

My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.

Eugene H. Peterson

The only opportunity you will ever have to live by faith is in the circumstances you are provided this very day: this house you live in, this family you find yourself in, this job you have been given, the weather conditions that prevail at the ...moment.

Ernie Pyle

I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.

Ernie Harwell

I had a job to do, and I did it all these years to the best of my ability. That's what I'd like to leave behind as I finish my final game in Toronto.

Ernie Harwell

I'd like to be remembered as someone who showed up for the job. I consider myself a worker.

Ernest Hemingway

The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

Ernest Hemingway

The writer's job is to tell the truth,

The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.

Ethel Merman

You'll never prove you're too good for a job by not doing your best.

Ethel Waters

I learned early in life not to judge others. We outcasts are very happy and content to leave that job to our social superiors.

Erykah Badu

Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.

Ernest Newman

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

Ernest Newman

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

Erma Bombeck

It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today.

Erma Bombeck

My mind works . . . two boobs never get me a job.

Erin O'Connor

As a model, part of my job is to be critiqued physically.

Erin O'Connor

Rejection is, of course, part of any successful model's career, as ironic as that sounds. It's how you pick yourself up and get on with the job.

Erin Heatherton

All my makeup tricks are from modeling jobs! It's my favorite part of the job - learning new tricks!

Florynce Kennedy

... tobacco kills 52,000 people a year from lung cancer, and there's no telling how many lives have been ruined through drinking.But to my knowledge, no one has ever died of a blow job.

Florence King

I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all times as if she had just read one of my books.

Florence Welch

I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.

Florence Nightingale

Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.

Flann O'Brien

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.

Flavor Flav

The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.

Flannery O'Connor

Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you.

Fetty Wap

I've had two jobs my whole life. I worked at FedEx for, like, two days, and I worked at Popeye's for a week. I just needed a check. It was a standard thing for people where I'm from. Well, people from there that did what I did for a living, you know what I'm saying? Go get you a quick check when you mess your money up.

Fetty Wap

If I wanted you to get a job, I would ask you to get a job. I'm also not stupid. I'm not going to overwork myself. If I have to chase the money, then I can't do this no more. That's not what I signed up for. I didn't sign up to tire myself out.

Herbert Hoover

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Henry Mintzberg

My feeling about executive bonuses is that any candidate for a chief executive job who even raises the issue of bonuses should be dismissed out of hand.

Henry Mintzberg

Organizations should be built and managers should be functioning so people can be naturally empowered. If someone's doing their job, if someone's working in one of your warehouses, say, they should know their job better than anybody. They don't need to be 'empowered,' but encouraged and left alone to be able to do what they know best.