Quotes About Job

I wound up studying art and design, got a job at Lonely Planet Publications as a designer, cartographer and illustrator.

Rather than feeling that every moment you've got to exert this enormous control, you can take the attitude that your job as a writer is not to control everything, but to set things in motion.

You do manage a somewhat religious attitude toward your art. It is a calling rather than a job.

Radio is the art form of sports casting. If you're any good, you can do a great job on radio.

After art college, I got a job as a medical illustrator, and I was pretty good. I had to imagine what was going on in the operations because the photographs just showed a mess.

This hook nose and crab meister attitude has gotten me every job I've ever had. And more divorces than I care to remember.

Homelessness is not just about having a job or an apartment. Too often homelessness is due to a disordered mind.

would have been out of a job, so

career, his accomplishments, his victories, the kind of friend he was, and the kind of father, except her. But she did a good job. Most of the

Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!

Little Richard was drenched in milk, and the cow was none too happy. But the iron brig door hung open. Good job, said Slank. Next time, you milk the cow, said Little Richard.

When you're running a bureaucracy the best way to safeguard your job is to make sure you're the only one who knows how the whole thing works. -Lord Julius

Which of you are doing only what you were hired to do?

If you're not totally sure what your job is, it will always feel overwhelming.

If you think you are being underpaid, underappreciated, and underdeveloped in your current job, then you are being hurt as a human being--and that is unacceptable.

Understand the significance of mind-set and culture. If the mind-set doesn't change, operations won't change either. In particular, be sure to get people past the mentality of "I have to do my job and this too?

My interviews also imparted a sense to the interviewees of how significant the new job was to the company. When the CEO and global HR leader each take an hour to talk to you about a job you're interviewing for, that says something

Priests are pretty much the same the world over. They seem to feel that their exclusive contact with God gives them a certain job security.

Good fiction's job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction's job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job.

For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of Is come unto me. I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. —Job

Two men were mugging an elderly lady. My God, thought Weinstein, time was when one person could handle that job.

I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.