There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
Instructive Day Jobs quotations
One of these days we're gonna have to grow up, have to get real jobs and be adults, someday, just not today.
They say hard work pays off Well tell the Based God don't quit his day job
Success isn't owned - it's leased. And rent is due every day. Every single day, someone's coming for your job. Someone's coming for your greatness. If you're the greatest, someone wants to be the greatest, and so if you're not constantly improving your game, somebody else is.
My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.
The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity... that's all there is. That's the whole economy. That's where all the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the sustaining wealth of the world.
Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.
I think the whole world is dying to hear someone say, 'I love you.
' I think that if I can leave the legacy of love and passion in the world, then I think I've done my job in a world that's getting colder and colder by the day.
The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work
The concept of paying one-hundred-and-something times earnings for any company for me is just anathema. Having said that, at the end of the day, your job is to buy what goes up and to sell what goes down so really who gives a damn about PE's?
What we do with our lives every day, whether at school, a desk job, or keeping the home in order, is our most basic opportunity to glorify God. That's what your role in His story looks like day in and day out. Instead of waiting to be offered a new role, play the current one well.
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.
Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Marketing's job is never done. It's about perpetual motion. We must continue to innovate every day.
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.
Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.
I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day.
This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth.
The exposure from 'Iron Chef' has been helpful, but at the end of the day your product and your service determine whether you get customers or not. If people decide to eat out less during a recession, the first restaurants that they will cut out are the ones that don't do a great job.
I have a great husband, great parents and in-laws, and I have help with a nanny.
It's not easy, but there are others who do it every day and don't have a high-profile job as I do.
PHP is about as exciting as your toothbrush.
You use it every day, it does the job, it is a simple tool, so what? Who would want to read about toothbrushes?
I'm a hard-working girl. I go to the office. I work a normal 9 to 5 job most days.
Change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That's a lot of effort in a day.
I feel that we are all philosophers, and that those who describe themselves as a 'philosopher' simply do not have a day job to go to.
Work hard but work smart. Always. Every day. Nothing is handed to you and nothing is easy. You're not owed anything... No job or task is too small or beneath you. If you want to get ahead, volunteer to do the things no one else wants to do, and do it better. Be a sponge. Be open and learn.
Acting is the best job in the world. Look at the way they treat you when you turn up for work. They give you breakfast and a cup of tea and ask, 'Are you all right' They tart up your face, you say somebody else's words, then pick up your check and go home. And you get days off. I tell you, it really is the way to live.
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.
Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game.
I love my babies so much that I could kiss them all day long.
.as a job. I could be a professional baby kisser. No joke.
A job on a newspaper is a special thing.
Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something. It is a personal product that people, a lot of people, take the time to sit down and read.
We're supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement.
Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck in those miserable day jobs writing reviews. Will somebody help them, please?
Give a man food, and he can eat for a day.
Give a man a job, and he can only eat for 30 minutes on break.
Obviously, it wasn't meant for me to die of cancer at 40.
Every day my life surprises me, just like my cancer diagnosis surprised me. But you roll with it. That's our job as humans.
I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up.
It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.