Job Quotes - page 2

Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it. (Arnold Bennett)
I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it is to do with form.
Anish Kapoor
Great men of action never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job.
Oswald Mosley
My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
Paddy Ashdown
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
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.
Herbert Hoover
If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.
Michel de Montaigne
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams
All successful newpapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it if the job is forced upon them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
H. L. Mencken
The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.
Sandy Koufax
It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters. (Vanna White)
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.
Ellen Goodman
My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.
Helmut Newton
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
Simone de Beauvoir
I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
Samuel Goldwyn
My job is to stop Britain from going red.
Margaret Thatcher
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.
Jean Cocteau
When it comes to doing my job, I keep my ego in my handbag.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.
Tim O'Reilly
I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.
Judi Dench
Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses. (Caleb Carr)
...on youth unemployment - governments should ensure that one out of three of jobs in the public sector are opened up to the youth and that at least one person in every household should have access to a job.
Tawakkol Karman
No one should do a job he can do in his sleep.
Cory Doctorow
The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.
Tennessee Williams
D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
W. Somerset Maugham