Being out of a job can erode people’s confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong. – James Surowiecki
Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job. – John Williams
The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have to discipline myself quite fiercely if I want to do some painting that’s worthwhile. Otherwise, you’re just doodling. It’s much easier when you’re just told what you have to do. – John Hurt
In the city, we work until quitting time. On the farm, we work until the job is finished. – John Bytheway
When I turn down work, I feel guilty, I feel terrible; I don’t know where the next job is going to come from. – Joan Rivers
So, the point I’m making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it’s the job of every congressman and senator is to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests. – Jim DeMint
A band’s first album’s usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it. – John Darnielle
When I was in college my girl got me a job at the doctor’s office she was working at. I was a file clerk. No disrespect but I don’t think a man can do that job. It takes so much meticulous and precise file-keeping. – J. Cole
Often, parents feel overwhelmed. Many must accomplish the whole job single-handedly while bearing all of the emotional pain of divorce. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
Our job as a government is to start with the great underpinnings of our current economic growth – particularly defence and mining – and build on these. – Jay Weatherill
We cannot win the future, expand the economy and spur job creation if we are saddled with increasingly growing deficits. That is why the president’s budget is a comprehensive and responsible plan that will put us on a path toward fiscal sustainability in the next few years – a down payment toward tackling our challenges in the long term. – Jacob Lew
There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more. – Joseph Barbera
Texas has done a very good job of securing their borders with the help of the federal government. California has done a good job. – Jan Brewer
Part of being a comedian is that it’s your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to point out its absurdities. – Greg Behrendt
I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I’d wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I wanted to, I don’t know, I just wanted to taste life. I dug graves for a while, I worked as a stock boy in a big department store, I worked in a bank. – Graydon Carter
You can’t imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our job is to really focus on that, and what we need to do to keep it safe and secure. – Janet Napolitano
Many people crave security and stability rather than risk-taking, and that doesn’t make them any less American. They are the workers rather than the job creators, and all societies need both. – John Podhoretz
You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn’t be when it is literally your job. – John Oliver
An actor’s job is about putting across the author’s intention; I don’t think of myself on the same level as a creator. – Jane Asher
You know, it’s kind of a shame in a way but the more seasoned directors a lot of times have more difficult getting a job than first time guys. New kid on the block kind of thing. – Jeff Bridges
My job involves a lot of different skills now – I’m as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days – but IA is still my favorite part of the work I do. – Jesse James Garrett
I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them right. End of job description. – Jeremy Grantham
When you take a job, you don’t just accept the pats on the back. You have to accept the kicks in the pants. – Joe Torre
I think basically I’m lazy, but I have a housewife’s mentality when I go about my job. – Indira Gandhi
I have supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality, and fairness for all. – Jeff Sessions