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Job Quotes

"All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job."

"All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job."

Julie Nixon Eisenhower, American Celebrity

8

"I have not had any serious non-academic job."

"I have not had any serious non-academic job."

Amartya Sen, Indian Philosopher

7

"I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces."

"I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces."

Kate Moss, English Model

Job, Jobs, School, Years

7

"So already, you go from not having a job and thinking you're going to get fired after the pilot, to knowing that you've got a guaranteed job for 4 years."

"So already, you go from not having a job and thinking you're going to get fired after the pilot, to knowing that you've got a guaranteed job for 4 years."

Michael Shanks, Canadian Actor

Job, Thinking, Years

7

"I have never once asked Alaskans to like how I got this job."

"I have never once asked Alaskans to like how I got this job."

Lisa Murkowski, American Politician

7

"I'm off at least three or four days a week, so it's a perfect job, really."

"I'm off at least three or four days a week, so it's a perfect job, really."

James Denton, American Actor

7

"Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire."

"Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire."

Abe Fortas, American Judge

Job, Lonely, Man, May

7

"My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?"

"My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?"

Tammy Duckworth, American Politician

7

"If my results are not good I will lose my job."

"If my results are not good I will lose my job."

Stuart Pearce, English Coach

Job, Results, Will

7

"The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not."

"The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not."

Lamar Alexander, American Politician

Job, President, University

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"You know it's my job to visualize, what is literal or audible, so I designed all the characters, and I designed what they do and how they should do it and so on."

"You know it's my job to visualize, what is literal or audible, so I designed all the characters, and I designed what they do and how they should do it and so on."

Gerald Scarfe, British Artist

7

"I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony."

"I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony."

Noah Wyle, American Actor

7

"Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along."

"Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along."

Paul Bettany, English Actor

7

"I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory."

"I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory."

Kevin J. Anderson, American Writer

Job, Jobs, Research, Restaurants

7

"The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do."

"The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do."

Ted Koppel, American Journalist

Job, Responsibility

7

"Waitressing - by far the worst job ever created."

"Waitressing - by far the worst job ever created."

Jennifer Esposito, American Actress

7

"I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation."

"I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation."

Lee Child, British Writer

Job, Television

7

"Well, I'm not saying that we're solving every problem or arresting every person that ought to be arrested and deported, but we're doing a better job than has been done in the past."

"Well, I'm not saying that we're solving every problem or arresting every person that ought to be arrested and deported, but we're doing a better job than has been done in the past."

Thad Cochran, American Politician

Job, Past, Saying

7

"In my job you can't just put your head in the sand and throw partisan bombshells. You have to get results."

"In my job you can't just put your head in the sand and throw partisan bombshells. You have to get results."

Amy Klobuchar, American Politician

6

"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."

"The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

6

"When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job."

"When it comes to .NET they've done a really outstanding job."

Miguel de Icaza, Mexican Scientist

6

"So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did - played records."

"So at 16 I got a job at the local radio station. And I was working after school and weekends. I did the news; I did everything. I did - played records."

Dick Van Dyke, American Actor

Job, News, School

6

"You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this."

"You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this."

Alice Hoffman, American Author

6

"We must do a better job of educating all drivers to be safer on the road."

"We must do a better job of educating all drivers to be safer on the road."

Johnny Isakson, American Politician

5

"I think the tour is doing a better job of showing off the personalities of the players with their website, which is filled with tidbits of what the players are up to."

"I think the tour is doing a better job of showing off the personalities of the players with their website, which is filled with tidbits of what the players are up to."

Jennifer Wyatt, Canadian Athlete

5

"One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them."

"One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them."

Rod Blagojevich, American Politician

Job, State, Support

5

"Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe."

"Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe."

John Gregory Dunne, American Writer

Job, Labor, Writing

4

"Masochism is a valuable job skill."

"Masochism is a valuable job skill."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

4

"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."

"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."

Paul Simon, American Musician

3

"The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man."

"The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

Job, Lonely, Man, Public

3

"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."

"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

3

"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."

"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

3

"Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can."

"Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can."

John F. Kennedy, American President

3

"If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job."

"If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job."

Woody Allen, American Director

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