Top 1200 Hardest Job Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.

One of my first memories of being a kid was, 'I want to have a real job when I grow up.' And to me that meant you wear a suit and a hat and carry a briefcase and go to your job.

It's actually one of the hardest things for trans people, is to go to the bathroom.

I grew up in the age of radio where we just went wherever the jobs were available. The job doing afternoons at Z100 was, funny enough, the only job I could find.

Right now what my job is, and I think the job of Democrats and Republicans, is to protect the middle class and working families of this country from some devastating ideas that [Donald] Trump has proposed.

Insanity Max 30 is the hardest workout I've ever taught.

My job is to take the pictures, communicate a message, to bring those images to the greater public through whatever publication I'm working for. My job is really to be a messenger, and that's what I've been doing.

I think for me 'X Factor' was the hardest thing I've ever done.

A true competitor works the hardest, cares the most, and makes the best of what they have.

We have to have that mindset that whoever comes in our house can't win and it has to be the hardest place to play.

When the cinematography school told me I would have no chance to get a job, I said, "It's irrelevant." My mom was a feminist in the '20s. She taught me to be on my own, to be independent, to do what I wanted to do. I did not believe it would be difficult. It was difficult. In '66, I almost starved for a year and a half, and the only way I did not starve was because I could not find a job in camera, but I found a job in editing.

One of the hardest things for a ball player to do is to accept his role

Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust.

The hardest part of the day is all the stuff after I open my eyes in the morning.

I'm trying my hardest to get you so wrapped up in me you never leave.

I'm not going to pursue it the way that actors pursue it which means going to all of the auditions and getting a job and all that stuff, because I don't really need to get a job because I have a job as a writer/director. That's how I make my living mostly now. So I don't need to make a living as an actress.

Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.

The hardest thing that I'll ever do, is ballet. Because you are either good or bad.

Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city.

Starting a successful company is one of the hardest things anyone does.

I was accepted to UCLA, but at the same time, I had a job offer at Chicago's Chez Paree nightclub. My father, being a practical man, felt I should take the job.

Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions.

The hardest thing for me was leaving my friends and family behind.

'Movie 43' is about the hardest R Rated comedy ever.

Four: Be brave Tris. The first time is always the hardest.

I do not like to lose, which is why I try my hardest when I play.

I used to want to be a critic. I think it's an awesome job. You get to watch all this stuff and then write about it and analyze it and give insight into it. That's an amazing job. I was terrible at it, though.

When we finished [training with my wife] we came to St. Paul, because St. Paul was the first place where we got a job offer and we needed some sort of a job to earn some money in order to set up our own studio. It's rather ironic that this job offer came originally through the Walker Art Center.

Clearly people should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness! But I think that for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy. We're doing a job that is not a celebrity job or an entertainment or fashion job.... In a professional setting, treat us as professionals.... And it takes a lot of time. I've often laughed with my male colleagues, like, "What did you do? You took a shower, you combed your hair, you put your clothes on. I couldn't do that."

I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.

Writing's not precious to me. It's not a thing that requires specific environment. You know, it's my job. Just like anybody with a job, you have to do your job when you don't feel like it, regardless of how good or bad the conditions are, regardless of how good or bad you might feel on any particular day.

My job is to make the case that I'll do the best job possible representing the people of Georgia's Sixth District, and what they want is representation that's focused on them and not this national partisan political circus.

One of the hardest things to do is to tell an untruthful story and maintain it, and that is exactly where I was stuck.

In the production, it's my job to find every flaw and the ones that can't be fixed, and that's why my job kind of sucks. My first reaction to everything is: here's the 20 things that are wrong with it. Unfortunately, that's how I have to live.

The problem when someone feels burned out, bored, unchallenged, or stifled by their work is not the job itself but rather the environment and playground rules given to them to do the job at hand.

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

What's interesting as a director, and even studio executives don't understand this, is that if you're directing a $200 million movie with six million people, it's the same as directing a $25,000 movie with three people. The director's job is, "You stand there and do that," or "This is the shot I want." The logistics change, but the job remains the same. And I enjoy the job.

Republican leaders have made clear they have no plans to use the power of government to stimulate the economy, invest in job creation and spur job growth. The Fed's plan is to give banks more money to finance the private sector job creation. But banks have ample cash now; they aren't lending, and the private sector is not creating the jobs. That is why we have 15 million people unemployed.

Realize that the hardest step in achieving anything is making a true commitment.

If the idea is you're working at a job solely to pay the bills because you have ambitions to do something else, if you're not actively trying to do that other thing, you've gotta make sure you're doing that. Sometimes you've gotta take away your own safety net. But if you feel miserable in a day job, in any job, get out of that. Look for something else. Stay in that job until you have the other thing set up, and then go to that other thing. But sometimes you've just got to jump out with a parachute and trust that you're going to land someplace safe.

I'm one of the baddest, hardest-hitting heavyweights in the business. Right here from Alabama, baby.

One of the hardest and truest things a grown-up learns is that sometimes it's not okay.

I find coming up with a title the hardest part of writing a novel.

The hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.

To entertain looks very flippant, but it is the hardest thing in the world.

The hardest part about storytelling is knowing what happens in the end.

My job is to kind of nudge them. Who said it, where, like, '90% of the job is casting,' so all I do is try to come to set and focus on getting all the best shots to cover the story; that's really it.

Losing my grandmother was one of the hardest things I ever had to go through.

I've been called one of the hardest bargainers who ever held out, and I'm proud of it.

The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.

I bring in the hardest sparring partners you can imagine and I'm going through the guys.

The hardest part about being a woman is figuring out what to wear.

I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.

One thing I learned in the NBA is that the No. 1 job of a general manager is to keep his job. They are only 30 positions where you make millions and hang around with basketball players all day.

Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.

Being able to express yourself is one of the hardest things in the world.

The persons hardest to convince that they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime.

Acquiring customers at the start is one of the hardest things you'll ever experiences as an entrepreneur.

When you gotta go out and make a movie to pay for the kid's private school and for the three ex-wives, don't talk to me about your artistry. It's their job. It's not my job. It's my calling.

It's the love that goes through the hardest trials and survives that's worth having.