Top 1200 Tough Job Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Do a good job on a good film and you're on the map. Do a great job on a bad movie and not very many people will think of you.

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible. The job is to make people laugh. I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

I was so happy and content with in life playing music. Music was always my first job and my day gig was my second job.

One thing an exceptional employee never says is, 'That's not in my job description.' Exceptional employees work outside the boundaries of job descriptions.

I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn't matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door.

Somehow we must reintegrate the scientific with the popular and reconnect the future to the present. This is less a job for scientists, engineers, bureaucrats, and administrators and more a job for novelists, moviemakers, popularizers, and politicians.

We do a very good job at fixing broken bodies but not such a great job at healing broken minds with our returning veterans.

If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it’s to find a job you hate even more.

Yeah, I want a job in Barack's Cabinet. How about a job, Mr. Obama? Please? Please?

People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.

I found a very comfortable style in that if I know everyone's job around me, it's going to make me better at my job.

What you realize is that a lot of actors want to be directed. They're there to do the best job they can for the director. They have a lot of questions, and your job is to have answers.

Each job you have has it's own challenges. One of the great things about my job, is that each film is a different journey.

I have never bought into this view that some people have that the job of the comedian is to espouse opinions and change the world - I think the job of a comedian is to be funny.

I started acting when I was 13, so acting has been, with great fortune, my job since I could get a job.

If you are a manager who is in your first or second job, the big worry would be where is your next job coming from, but I'm not in that position.

It is God's job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.

If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business—you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic!

Lest it sound as if I resent my day job, I have to say that my day job is the reason I write, and it has been the best thing for me as a writer.

I've done a lot of pilots. A lot of shows. You're young and you do a job just because you know someone gave you a job.

Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.

I get up every morning the same as everyone else, and scratch my head and just get on with the job. Whatever that job may be.

I guess my whole life, as much as I might have wanted a child for the reason that everybody wants one, I always recognized that at no point until I was 50 was I old enough or up to the job. I thought, you know what, I not only really want a child, but at this point, finally in my life, I think I'm up to the job and I'm the type of person who could do the job well and I'm financially prepared to look after a child.

I'm normally fairly busy rushing from job to job, so have little time in the mornings for my beauty regime. However, this usually means my hair and makeup is done for me when I get there, which is great!

I am manager at Chelsea. I manage and represent elite and world class players and this for me is an amazing job I've spent nine years cultivating all my energy into. I'm not looking for another job.

I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else.

At the end of the day, you have a job to do, and if you don't do your job, you're going to get fired. You just have to kind of put your head down and do it.

The beauty of Netflix is, their job is to put stories out there, and not stories that appeal to everybody, which is maybe NBC's job?

The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man [Maigret] is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.

It's a really unique job that is a little schizophrenic and you have to kind of do it with a sense of humor.The trick is figuring out what each job is asking of you and what it's not asking of you.

The job of a journalist is to find out stuff. The job of the government - sometimes - is to keep stuff secret. There's a natural tension there.

The kind of job doesn't matter. The length of time on the job doesn't matter... If you work hard and do your best, you'll be recognized and move onward.

A leader's job is not just to get the best out of their people-a leader's job is to make more leaders.

Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that job.

I had a job right out of college writing for a small newspaper called 'The Unterrified Democrat.' Ghastly, ghastly job.

I'm always very scared when I start a movie because I never know if I'm going to be able to do a good job or do a very bad job.

You would be amazed at the pompadour that I was rocking in the first job I had on the soap opera called 'Loving,' my first contract job.

When you get your dream job, you'd be really hard-pressed to leave it. Unless you've got another dream job out there.

I can drink on the job if I want to. I can go on stage with a beer and it's OK. I can say whatever I want. It's a great job to have.

In my line of work I have respect, that's it. Plain and simple. And I follow orders. I do my job on the park and I do my job off the park.

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

I have a limited amount of time to build a career out of football and be the best that I can be at this job. When this job is over, I have the rest of my life to do what I want with my time.

I think that it should just be a rule of thumb that if your job asks you to cut your hair... that means that it's time to quit that job.

Certainly, we want to make sure that kids go to school full-bellied, but is that always the government's job to be there to serve people their breakfast? Is it my job to feed my neighbour's child? I don't think so.

I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.

I have a very difficult, high-pressured job. Everyone knows how challenging it is to balance family responsibilities with a job that takes me across the country and working extremely hard.

The way I see it is if I can't be happy doing this job, which is my dream job, then what's going to make me happy in life?

I don't want music to be a job for me; I want it to be something I'm doing for fun. As long it's not a job, then you're straight.

Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.

Once, a union job at GM or AT&T was a bridge to success. Now, a nonunion Wal-Mart job is a bridge to nowhere.

I'm not oblivious to that connotation of changing careers, so I'm just going in and doing the job. I think that you can't fake doing the job. All I want to do is deliver. That's my focus.

It's one of the things I love about my job: it's my job to help a director tell the story, to just be willing to help.

I wish podcasting was my only job - I have more fun doing that than I have doing absolutely anything else. But my job is that I'm a writer.

Films are not a part-time job. They take months to make and require long-time commitment; so, you can't do a half-hearted job.

Investors must remember that their first job is to preserve their capital. After they've dealt with that, they can approach the second job, seeking a return on that capital.

Sometimes I fall out of love with what I'm doing, but only for about a week. Once it's over I'm back to thinking it's the best job in the world again. But every job has it's ups and downs.

In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it's pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job.

Our job as elected officials is to make sure those who have stepped up to defend our country have the resources they need to do their job.

Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If I had to pay money to do it, I would do it... Directing is playing. Acting.

I trained my whole career to fight. I loved my job - I prioritised by job over my family, over my children.