Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Saunders

The artist’s job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery.

Gena Showalter

He’d never be able to touch her, and as passionate as she was, she would eventually need a man who could. He’d never had to worry about these things before because he’d never been with a woman. Not even before his possession. He’d been too busy then, too involved in his job. Maybe he needed to join Workaholics Anonymous, he thought dryly. He had to be the only millennia-old virgin in history.

Franz Kafka

My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing but literature and can and want to be nothing else, my job will never take possession of me, it may, however, shatter me completely, and this is by no means a remote possibility.

But it doesn't matter whether there are 2,000 or 45,000 in the stands, ... Your job is to play.

Steve Yzerman

But I think the job he's done is overlooked, just because of the talent we have.

Guy Kawasaki

Everyone is passionate about something. It's your job to find out what it is.

Gwen Ifill

Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.

Gwen Stefani

I'm lucky to not have a real job, to be able to express myself, be creative and be relevant.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I think that women, especially women in my job, come to me because they know I'm very loving and nonjudgmental and I'm not competitive, and I've been through a lot.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I can do short jobs. If I was still starring in three movies every year, there's no way that I'd be the person my kids want when they fall down.

Gregg Popovich

It's never been my goal to be king of the prom. It's been my goal to do the right thing and get the job done.

Greg Walden

A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.

Greg Walden

Whether fuel cell system development in central Oregon, wind power generation along the Columbia Gorge, or geothermal energy in southern Oregon, investing in new energy sources makes America more energy independent while creating good paying, environmentally friendly jobs.

John Chavis

Hey, that's our job, to stop them. If I ever have the chance, I'd do the same thing to them. You score as many points as you possibly can and it's our job to stop them.

Kyle Boller

He's the guy, ... There's going to be one voice. Everything that he says, it's going to be my job to relay it to the offense and to do.

He's just a soldier doing his job like any other person,

E. O. Wilson

How are people supposed to keep jobs and make a living and do this too? I'm already late to work and I can't give up my job.

He's pretty much solid in those situations. Tonight you've got to turn the page and know that next time he comes out he's going to get the job done.

He's pretty modest about his job but he works really, really hard,

He's proven he can get the job done.

Ted White

I don't know if he looked homeless, but he looked like something. He got the job done.

I don't know if it was really that many shots, but I know it was a lot. Gwinnett has a very powerful offensive team. We've got to do a better job of limiting their shots.

Tyler Johnson

I didn't think I wrestled my best, but I got the job done.

E. O. Wilson

I didn't even have a win in the minors, so getting a win up here is nice. Your job is to win games. I hadn't won, so it was frustrating.

Jack Kirby

I'm not interested in the ego trip of creating or not creating. I'm interested in selling a magazine. Rock-bottom, I sell magazines. I'm a thorough professional who does his job.

Jack Kirby

If you're a thorough professional, and they won't let you do a professional job, nobody's going to benefit from it. The people who produce it won't benefit. The people who buy it won't benefit from it. They're going to get a half-assed product.

Jack Kirby

If a carpenter makes a chair that's comfortable for the person who's going to sit in it, he's done his job. If a train engineer gets a train in on time, he's going to make someone happy who's waiting at the station. And if an artist draws the kind of a picture that people are going to enjoy looking at, or he makes a visual story which people are going to enjoy reading, he's done his job.

Jack Kirby

I've done my job extremely well. My only beef is that a lot of people have put their fingers in whatever I've done and tried to screw it up, and I've always resented that.

Jack Kirby

I always resent anybody interfering with anybody else trying to do his job. Everybody has his own job to do. If he's good, he'll do well, but if he's mediocre, he's not going to do as well as he should.

Jack Donovan

White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially and financially rewarded. When you learn to say and perhaps even believe the right things about race, doors are opened for you. When you say the wrong thing, those doors slam shut. Then, the gossips and church ladies will shame you publicly, demand that you be fired from your job, and use every avenue available to them to coerce a confession, a public apology and a staged conversion that contributes to their progressive narrative.

Jack Canfield

Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone." "Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it." "Our job is not to figure out the 'how'. The 'how' will show up out of the commitment and believe in the 'what

Jack Canfield

Part of paying the price is the willingness to do whatever it takes to get the job done. It comes from a declaration that you are going to get it done no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, no matter what comes up.

Jack Canfield

Most of life is on-the-job training. Some of the most important things can only be learned in the process of doing them. You do something and you get feedback - about what works and what doesn't. If you don't do anything for fear of doing it wrong, poorly, or badly, you never get any feedback, and therefore you never get to improve.