Quotes about job
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“You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.”

Laurence J. Peter (1919–1990) Canadian eductor

“Calvin: If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it again.
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Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
Source: Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

“Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.”

Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist

Life, Women

“A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.”

Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist

Marriage, Sex

“Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done. Except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

Way

“This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

Dead

“But America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.”

Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)

Special Message to the Congress: The President's First Economic Report (1947)
Source: https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/public-papers/4/special-message-congress-presidents-first-economic-report

Fear, Imagination, Courage, Courageous

“Just because I'm a murdering, thieving, cowardly, traitorous sort doesn't mean I can't do my job properly.”

James A. Owen The Search for the Red Dragon

Source: The Search for the Red Dragon

“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.”

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat

Pain, Thinking

“Don't you ever feel that way? Likecould do a better job if you rqan the world?'
'Um… no. Me running the world would be kind of a nightmare.”

Rick Riordan book The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

World, Way, Feeling

“Find a judo solution, one that delivers maximum efficiency with minimum effort. When good enough gets the job done, go for it.”

Jason Fried software entrepreneur

Source: Rework

Effort

“What are you? (a Daimon)
Oh please, let me give you the job description. Me, Dark-Hunter. You, Daimon. I hit, you bleed. I kill, you die. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Night Embrace

Source: Night Embrace

“She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hated herself so there wasn't much point in trying to do better.”

Tawni O'Dell book Back Roads

Source: Back Roads

Hate, Way

“She often had to remind herself that she couldn't do everything alone. She wasn't always the best person for the job. Sometimes she got tunnel vision and forgot about what other people needed.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

People, Personality

“Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century.”

Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011) British American author and journalist

Thinking, Success, Falseness

“I decided that giving a girl a ring when you're not in a serious relationship is sort of like giving a guy a blow job when you have no real feelings for him. It makes everything feel a little cheap. It cheapens the giver and the recipient.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Baby Proof

Guy, Feeling, Girl

“I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera.”

Marian Keyes (1963) Irish writer

Source: Watermelon

Life, Personality

“Internet porn makes everything more reasonable -- once you've realized there is a massive subculture of upwardly mobile people who think it's erotic to see an Asian woman giving a hand job to a javelina, nothing else in the world seems crazy.”

Chuck Klosterman (1972) Author, Columnist

People, World, Thinking

“It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.”

Jim Butcher book Fool Moon

Source: Fool Moon

“The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.”

Sophie Kinsella book Remember Me?

Source: Remember Me?

Life

“I knew she was right. Of course she was right. Bex was always right. She knew me better than I knew myself. But then again, isn't that a best friend's job?”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: United We Spy

“Was it wrong to take a job just because you'd fallen in love with a bed?”

Jill Mansell book Rumour Has It

Source: Rumour Has It

Love

“Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

“In the economy of Heaven, God does not send thunder if a still, small voice is enough, or a prophet if a priest can do the job.”

Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004) Mormon leader

God

“The father’s job is to teach his children how to be warriors, to give them the confidence to get on the horse to ride into battle when it’s necessary to do so. If you don’t get that from your father, you have to teach yourself.”

Cheryl Strayed book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Children, Confidence, Horse

“Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.”

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer

Time

“He kisses like… like it could be his job.” Margot giggles and lifts the spoons off her eyes. “Like a male prostitute?”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Kiss

“Steve [Jobs] proves that it's OK to be an asshole… He just has a different OS.”

Guy Kawasaki (1954) American businessman and author

“Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.”

Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine

Variant: Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Imagination

“Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women. He thought for a moment longer, then scowled. On second thoughts, what a nightmare that'd be. It's the job of a man to fan the spark into flames, not quench it…”

Steven Erikson book Memories of Ice

Source: Memories of Ice

Women, God, World

“Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.”

Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer

Money

“And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.”

Howard Zinn book A People's History of the United States

Source: A People's History of the United States

People, World, Thinking

“I was overpowered by being in the world, by other people and their lives I couldn’t lead, their jobs I couldn’t do - overpowered even by jobs I would never want or need to do.”

Andrew Solomon book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

People, World

“When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world 'No, You Move.”

J. Michael Straczynski (1954) American writer and television producer

Truth, World, Tree

“Come a day there won’t be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all. This job goes south, there well may not be another. So here is us, on the raggedy edge. Don’t push me, and I won’t push you. Dong le ma?”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Men

“I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open to all the possibilities in the world.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

People, World, Hope, Thinking

“The receptionist looked us over, then went back to typing something incredibly urgent—like her résumé́ for another job.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

“Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep--
But nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep.
Maybe you just had the worst day of your life;
Well, you know, there's no escape.
That's no excuse. Just suck up and be nice.”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

Pixie
Song lyrics
Source: Ani Difranco - Little Plastic Castle

Life, Sleep

“What are your qualifications for this job?” she asked. “I’m expendable,” I said.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Burn for Me

“Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Life

“Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Love, Money

“You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

Lie, Feeling

“Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Narcissus in Chains

Source: Narcissus in Chains

Way, Heart

“I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don’t. It’s the great mystery. (Steve Jobs)”

Walter Isaacson book Steve Jobs

Source: Steve Jobs

Religion, Thinking, Housing

“It's a full time job with a part-time companion.”

Sylvia Day book Bared to You

Source: Bared to You

Time, Parting

“It's easier to find a way to make money at something you love than to learn to love a job that you can make money at.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Early to Death, Early to Rise

Love, Money, Way, Learning

“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!”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

Thinking

“A dog is like a person—he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.”

Andrew Vachss (1942) American writer and lawyer

Family, Dogs, Personality, For Mother

“I often think how unadventurous my life must seem from the outside, though I do like my job.”

Mary Hoffman book City of Flowers

Source: City of Flowers

Life, Thinking

“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs”

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist

“Terminus sniffed. “I guard borders. I don’t kill giants. It’s not in my job description.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

“We’ve been wrong about what our job is in medicine. We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being.”

Atul Gawande (1965) American surgeon

Source: Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End

Health, Thinking

“Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell.”

Walter Isaacson (1952) American writer and biographer

Hell, Water

“He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

The Fountainhead (1943).
Source: Atlas Shrugged
Context: That particular sense of sacred rapture men say they experience in contemplating nature- I've never received it from nature, only from. Buildings, Skyscrapers. I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. The shapes and the thought that made them. The sky over New York and the will of man made visible. What other religion do we need? And then people tell me about pilgrimages to some dank pest-hole in a jungle where they go to do homage to a crumbling temple, to a leering stone monster with a pot belly, created by some leprous savage. Is it beauty and genius they want to see? Do they seek a sense of the sublime? Let them come to New York, stand on the shore of the Hudson, look and kneel. When I see the city from my window - no, I don't feel how small I am - but I feel that if a war came to threaten this, I would like to throw myself into space, over the city, and protect these buildings with my body.

World, Light

“Butch didn't live in his own place. He didn't spend his own money. He had no job, no future. He was a well-kept pet, not a man.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Revealed

Source: Lover Revealed

Money, Future

“If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella.”

Susanna Kaysen (1948) American writer

World