Quotes about jobs
jobs real serious-person
If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job. Harrison Ford
jobs live-life interesting
I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
jobs writing years
I didnt audition for SNL. I sent in a tape to SNL the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon. Hannibal Buress
jobs want life-is
I applied for a job at Starbucks. One of the questions was, 'Why do you want to work at Starbucks?' Uh, because my life is in shambles.
jobs real half
SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.
jobs fun creativity
Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you're doing your job, with entertainment aspect, with pleasure, with fun. And we decided to try to make it as fun that we do our creativity. Guy Laliberte
jobs interesting exciting
One of the interesting and exciting things about my job is watching technological ground being pioneered. Guy Ritchie
jobs ideas juxtaposition
I like the idea of taking what is essentially a boring, officious job and turning it into something that is a fantasy, to a degree. I suppose there is a juxtaposition involved in that because you do have to be a civil servant but you're doing a tremendously exciting job, or potentially an exciting job, or a glamourous job.
jobs interesting looks
My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good.
jobs thinking inspire
I guess what inspires me most is the desire to draw out feelings that feel best expressed on the written page by really good authors, and I'm not a really good author. I feel like my job as a filmmaker is to eff the ineffable, to take feelings that only poets could describe with words and try to project them on the screen for viewers to feel. I don't think I've succeeded once but in the act of trying I've come up with all these other results which sometimes intrigue me. Guy Maddin
jobs giving energy
I just can't talk about things before I do them, because just for me... I give energy away before I've put energy into the job. Guy Pearce
jobs stories want
There is only one Steve Jobs, but if you want a shot at being the next Steve Jobs, learn to communicate using stories, demos, and pictures. Guy Kawasaki
jobs player long
Steve Jobs has a saying that A players hire A players; B players hire C players; and C players hire D players. It doesn't take long to get to Z players. This trickle-down effect causes bozo explosions in companies.
jobs thinking differences
If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.
jobs different prove
Steve [Jobs] proves that it's OK to be an asshole... He just has a different OS.
jobs passionate
Everyone is passionate about something. It's your job to find out what it is.
jobs real entrepreneur
It's easy to say that entrepreneurs will create jobs and big companies will create unemployment, but this is simplistic. The real question is who will innovate.
jobs people entrepreneur
Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is a state of mind of people who want to alter the future.
jobs men thinking
Once I saw a homeless man wearing his underwear on top of his pants. Now we say, why don't the homeless just go out and get a job? If he's wearing his underwear on top of his pants, I doubt his resume is in order, and I don't think he's going to make it too far in the interview process. In fact, I'm pretty sure that McDonald's has a no underwear over your pant policy. Greg Giraldo
jobs thinking issues
Job creation is important I think, but it's not the critical issue for Republicans. Greg Gutfeld
jobs mistake goes-on
They [policemen] are in a profession that if you do the job incorrectly, or proceeding incorrectly, it's over for you because there isn't any supporter backup. If you make a mistake as a plumber, you know, you fix it and everything goes on or you get sued. But if you make a mistake as a cop, you are more infamous than Jesse James, everything's over.
jobs player differences
There's a difference in a player that has a job and a player that doesn't have a job. Grady Little
jobs optimistic thinking
I chose to be in this job and things don't always go your way. But I'll keep going. As a manager you have to be optimistic and think things are going to get better. Graeme Souness
jobs phones waiting
I do less waiting by the phone than anyone I know in the business. I don't wait for a job. I just go on to my own work. Grace Zabriskie
jobs writing thinking
It might be a good idea to have government totally by the people - that each person takes four or five hours of the week doing some kind of government job - in other words, along with what you do you also help maintain the government so no one person has total control - I might go down to an office for four hours and do whatever I'm capable of doing - writing out receipts for food distribution in a certain area - but it's all actually a monstrous secretarial job and that's all I think it should be. Grace Slick
jobs government people
Ideal government would be a very boring job - it would be a matter of organizing a lot of utilities and keeping the wires together and the power plant and all that kind of stuff. It's not a matter of telling people how to live, it's a matter of making it pleasant for them to live. Government should be in the position of distributing food, stuff like that.
jobs children men
Through your life, most people peel away the junk that's not useful, that's superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing at a time. One man at a time. One car. One house. One child. One job.
jobs white interesting
Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn't. 'White Rabbit' is not well written, and no amount of applause or royalties can convince me it is. I could have done a better job with those lyrics. They didn't say what I wanted.
jobs fun ambition
I was entirely wrapped up in the idea of becoming an actor. I learned how to write on the job, basically out of necessity. I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se. I just thought, "Well, maybe I'll do it one day just for the hell of it and see if it works." Glenn Howerton
jobs band sometimes
We set out to become a band for our time. But sometimes if you do a good-enough job, you become a band for all time. Glenn Frey
jobs communication opportunity
The investment in our mining industry has been very positive for Australia but we need to be doing more if we want, as I do, more revenue for our defence.. which I think is under-resourced.. our police, our elderly, our hospitals, roads, infrastructure and communication, to be able to repay our debts and enable sustainable job opportunities for existing and future generations. Gina Rinehart
jobs world example
Jessica Pearson isn't a unicorn. She's not a mythological creature. She's an example of so many women out there that are ruling their part of the world and doing an incredible job. Gina Torres
jobs powerful important
The most important thing for any of us to be in our jobs is curious. Ginni Rometty