Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Cohn

Every time you get into a new job, new location, you have an amazing opportunity in front of you. You get to play dumb for as long as people will allow you to play dumb. You get to ask all the dumb questions, you get to ask multiple people the dumb questions, and you get to make mistakes. Thats how you stand out in the crowd.

Gary Coleman

I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on.

Gary Coleman

My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.

Lois McMaster Bujold

The world is made by the people who show up for the job.

Liz Miller

When there is some fear about accounting and growth and the economy, food stocks are a decent place to be, ... This company has been through a bit of a restructuring the last couple of years. Management is doing a great job. The company is improving and people are buying chocolate. So, what a great week to buy it.

Lisa Whelchel

My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future.

Lloyd Kaufman

Luckily, I've never been offered a directing job that was lucrative. I've never heard, "Here's $800,000 to remake Sisters."

Lynda Carter

I want to do everything right now! This very minute. I am impatient, but yes I have goals. To be a real well-respected actress whom people know they can rely on to do a good job... whether they like me as a person or not!

Lyn Nofziger

The Patriot Post not only does the best job of putting important news, policy and opinion in proper context, but also of cutting down to size the pompous praters and propagandists on the left.

Lynda Obst

One of our jobs is to keep women working, which we do by keeping women coming to the movies. And doing that means making good, smart, often funny movies that women can identify with-with terrific dialogue we all remember and cherish, and stories that illuminate our lives and decisions and turning points.

Lynda Obst

In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth....Americans are stimulated by the big job; the Panama Canal, Boulder Dam, Grand Coulee, Lower Colorado River developments, the tallest building in the world, the mightiest battleship.

Lyndon B. Johnson

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.

Lyndon B. Johnson

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The Secretary of Labor is in charge of finding you a job, the Secretary of the Treasury is in charge of taking half the money you make away from you, and the Attorney General is in charge of suing you for the other half.

Luke Johnson

Entrepreneurship is not a job, nor even a calling - but a hunger.

Luke Evans

When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.

Lucas Papademos

My job will not be easy but I am convinced the problems will be solved in a quicker and more efficient way if there is unity and consensus.

Louise Slaughter

Surely the Department of Defense can and needs to do a better job of training new and existing first responders to respond to sexual assaults occurring in the military.

Louise Slaughter

The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.

Louise Mensch

I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.

Louise Penny

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

Loretta Young

As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!

LZ Granderson

Now as a former welfare recipient, I don't have a problem with expecting people to work to earn money. But where I come from we call that a job, not volunteerism.

Lord Mountbatten

I was born with an ability to concentrate very hard on a job for a long time.

Lord Mountbatten

What do you do if you are asked to do a job, first by the Prime Minister, and then by the King? How can you refuse?

Lord Mountbatten

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job other than at one's best ability.

Lord Mountbatten

I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man.

Lord Kelvin

The fact that mathematics does such a good job of describing the Universe is a mystery that we don't understand. And a debt that we will probably never be able to repay.

Malcolm Fraser

Most asylum seekers do get permanent visas, so the earlier they receive the appropriate help, the faster they will become part of the community. They'll get jobs and start paying taxes too. They will see Australia as a nation with a sense of care and concern. That's so important for a cohesive society. It helps build a sense of belonging. And in terms of common decency, it's what should be happening... For God's sake, this is Australia, people should be treated with decency and humanity.

Malcolm Forbes

All too often we say of a man doing a good job that he is indispensable. A flattering canard, as so many disillusioned and retired and fired have discovered when the world seems to keep on turning without them. In business, a man can come nearest to indispensability by being dispensable in his current job. How can a man move up to new responsibilities if he is the only one able to handle his present tasks? It matters not how small or large the job you now have, if you have trained no one to do it as well, you're not available; you've made your promotion difficult if not impossible.

Malcolm Forbes

When the joy of the job's gone, when it's no fun trying anymore, quit before you're fired.