Jobs Quotes - Page 11

• Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'

  Dr. Seuss

  Sour, Can Do, Bits

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• I think we should, as the public sector or politicians, stop creating an illusion that it is the public sector that drives growth and jobs. It is not. It is the private sector that does it. There is no growth without entrepreneurship.

  Alexander Stubb

  Thinking, Creating, Growth

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• So worried was I that people would see through the painting into my soul - and guess at secret Alison stuff - that I scraped the paint off the canvas. It was too risky to expose what everyone hides...And yet isn't that the job of the artist? Next step is to take the risk - to work more deeply. To expose that which cannot be expressed any other way. That is art. Scary and exciting.

  Allison Mackie

  Art, Expression, People

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• They do a heck of a job with the PGA professionals around the country and taking care of the clubs and country clubs and everything else, but when it comes to understanding the guys out here on Tour and everything else, I don't think they get it because they're not out here on a regular basis.

  Billy Horschel

  Country, Golf, Thinking

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• ...It would be possible to make much more progress than has been made if the NCI knew its job better, knew how to make discoveries...The NCI really does not know how to make discoveries....So long as the NCI is not willing to follow up ideas that seem good to people who have had experience making discoveries, the work of the NCI is going to be pedestrian.

  Linus Pauling

  Dark, Discovery, Ideas

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• The point is that the reader's journey through our site is a narrative experience. Our job is to make the narrative satisfying.

  Mark Bernstein

  Journey, Narrative, Internet

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• Tens of thousands of South Florida jobs are dependent on the trade and commerce that our ports provide, and we have to make sure that we spend our security dollars wisely.

  Kendrick Meek

  Florida, Dollars, Port

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• The casinos brought lots of revenue and jobs to our community. We've seen lots of benefits from those tax dollars.

  Tina Thompson

  Community, Dollars, Benefits

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• What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record.

  Peter Hain

  Judging, Records, Judge Me

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• I mean there are tons of reasons. Well first of all. I write my own record. I don't take other people's materials. And I have a job which is being Willa Ford on top of getting back in the studio and writing and recording.

  Willa Ford

  Writing, Mean, People

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• The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Community, African American, Louisiana

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• If we have no identity apart from our jobs, we are truly vulnerable.

  Dan Miller

  Identity, Vulnerable, Ifs

  Dan Miller (2008). “No More Dreaded Mondays: Ignite Your Passion - and Other Revolutionary Ways to Discover Your True Calling at Work”, p.48, Crown Business

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• To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

  Herbert Hoover

  Fall, Science, Comfort

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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• My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  People, Dare, Shocking

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• This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Summer, Rocks, Play

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• I think it's because we're looking for the meaning. Where is the meaning? We have mindless jobs, we take frantic vacations, deficit finance trips to the mall to buy more things that we think are going to fill these holes in our lives. Is it any wonder that we've lost our sense of direction?

  Matthew McConaughey

  Meaningful, Thinking, Vacation

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• Far too many women are hesitant, and remain trapped in jobs for which they are over-qualified or paid beneath their worth.

  Janet Street-Porter

  Equal Pay, Qualified, Paid

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• We can put our head in the sand and continue to lose jobs overseas and to other states, or we can say, 'You know what? We are not going to lose another job from California, and we're going to be the very best place to start and grow a business.' So I'll be the chief sales officer for California businesses.

  Meg Whitman

  Business, California, Sand

  "The Kudlow Report" with Larry Kudlow, www.cnbc.com. July 16, 2010.

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• My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

  Patrick Warburton

  Character, Trying, Actors

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs.

  Kamisese Mara

  Confidence, Loss, Order

  Report to President Ganilau, May 15, 1992.

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• I'm not sure I'm quite ready to have someone be a prospector of jobs for me, because I believe there's some kind of destiny involved with meeting people... some things are just meant to happen.

  Audrey Tautou

  Believe, Destiny, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In preseason camp, there are no friends. when newcomers arrive trying to take not only your job, but maybe your best friend's job, you work together to try to help each other. Everyone is an outsider until you're given a uniform.

  Sue Wicks

  Friends, Together, Trying

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• In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends.

  Dirk Kempthorne

  Friendship, Law, Support

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• I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job.

  Donovan Bailey

  Successful, Opportunity, Giving

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• The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.

  Armstrong Williams

  Morning, Father, School

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