When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs. — Margaret Laurence
Being an MP is a good job, the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children -- clean, indoors and no heavy lifting. What could be nicer? — Diane Abbott
Just about any occupation can be a job, career, or calling. — Angela Duckworth
Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements. — Ron Livingston
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
There's only 5 real jobs in the world. Teacher, fireman, policeman, doctor and somebody who is in the armed service. If you don't have one of those 5 jobs, you shouldn't take your life that serious. — Charles Barkley
I'm so blessed to have as many jobs that I have, but I do agree that there needs to be some downtime. — Tori Spelling
Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant. — Marilyn vos Savant
A lot of jobs don't allow you to be who you are. There is dignity in work only when it is work freely accepted. — Albert Camus
Office hours are from 12 to 1 with an hour off for lunch. — George S. Kaufman
Taking employment out of the country - now that's taking away jobs. These shows employ a lot of people: production, post-production, music supervisors, camera people. A hundred people or more. — Corbin Bernsen
Short Office Jobs Quotes
For many people a job is more than an income - it's an important part of who we are. — Paul Clitheroe
But I think we're going to have people who work from home a couple of days a week. — Jensen Huang
Work is my hobby, staying sober is my job. — Christian Slater
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. — Ogden Nash
If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job. — Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area. — Jodie Foster
A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public. — Franklin Knight Lane
If I were a serious person, I'd probably have a real job. — Harrison Ford
But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection. — Jack Vance
My first job was at a Burger King. — Chamath Palihapitiya
Office Jobs Image Quotes
In every job that must be done there is an element of fun.
Office Job Quotes
Doing a job RIGHT the first time gets the job done. Doing the job WRONG fourteen times gives you job security. — Stephen Hawking
My father never really believed in summer camp, so we’d come with him to the office. We’d go look at jobs, work on construction sites. It taught us real work. — Jared Kushner
I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado. — Mary Cheney
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense. — Christopher Meloni
As an active member of the Air Force, Army and Mine Warfare Caucuses, I meet with enlisted personnel and officers on a regular basis to learn more about their needs, both on the job and with their families. — Allen Boyd
The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one. — Oscar Wilde
Jobs fill your pocket, adventures fill your soul.
Far from the richest rapper, but my biggest personal achievement thus far in my life has been retiring my mom early from her job at the Post Office. It's a tiny payback for the sacrifices she made that allowed me to chase a far-fetched dream of becoming a successful artist. I'm forever grateful. — J. Cole
I don't think I am a star; I consider myself like any other girl who is of my age. Others may be working in office and doing different jobs. Similarly I don't think I am doing something different... I am also working. — Deepika Padukone
Millennials grew up realizing that they can get the job done without having to go to the office. — Eric Yuan
Members of Congress are incredibly blessed and fortune to have the jobs that we have. Nobody makes us run. Every two years we offer for public office, and if you don't want to do it then don't run. But the notion that you can make $174,000 in this country and be underpaid is laughable. — Trey Gowdy
Office Work Quotes
Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain — Jack Kerouac
Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work. — William Graham Sumner
Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately. — Bob Porter
No matter how good you are, you can always be replaced.
In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR. — Bobby Sherman
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. — Robert Frost
To get your name well enough known that you can run for a public office, some people do it by being great lawyers or philanthropists or business people or work their way up the political ladder. I happened to become known from a different route. — John Glenn
Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office of mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office. — Gloria Steinem
For the past several years, the Meth Caucus has worked to engage the Office of National Drug Control Policy on this issue. We have tried to get their attention that meth requires a strong, comprehensive Federal policy. — Rick Larsen
In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office — Harold S. Kushner
Intercession is the truly universal work for the Christian. No place is closed to intercessory prayer: no continent, no nation, no city, no organization, no office. No power on earth can keep intercession out. — Richard Halverson
Office Staff Quotes
Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur. — Jan Egeland
When I was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, I would still have junior officers brief me. Usually these people knew more about the subject we were discussing than I did. I had to make sure that they felt confident enough to tell me everything they believed. — Colin Powell
Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army. — Bulent Ecevit
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone. — John Abizaid
Staff officers of inharmonious disposition, irrespective of their ability, must be removed. A staff cannot function unless it is a united family. — George S. Patton
Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They’re associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure. — Susan Cain
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter. — Bart Gordon
Reliable office staff come in the shape of mature married women working from 9.30 to 3.30 (inside school hours) during which they will do more than the 9-5ers. — Chris Brasher
A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents. — Ambrose Bierce
If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present. — Claus von Stauffenberg
Office Desk Quotes
We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight. — Calvin Coolidge
I can remember playing under the big wooden desk in his office. My mother didn't like us to chew gum, so we'd go into his office, and he'd feed us gum under the desk. — John F. Kennedy Jr.
A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
I wear mostly black Main Line or T… But the other day, the sun was shining so I wore blue jeans. It caused so much excitement in the office! People were literally coming up from the floor below and peering behind my desk saying; we hear you’re wearing blue jeans and we have to have a look — Alexander Wang
In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings. — Norman Lear
If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job. — Harold Geneen
Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return.
My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection. — Marina Tsvetaeva
It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on. — Len Wein
A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. — Mark Twain
I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk. — Margaret Mahy
Office Administration Quotes
It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam. — Edward Kennedy
On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on the terrorism in its first 9 months in office. — Sidney Blumenthal
The presidency is not merely an administrative office...It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
No matter what you do, your job is to tell your story.
What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility? — Paul Ryan
The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own. — Charles Hodge
However many people complain about the "red tape," it would be sheer illusion to think ... continuous administrative work can be carried out in any field except by means of officials working in offices.... The choice is only that between bureaucracy and dillettantism. — Max Weber
I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job, because he will find an easy way to do it.
Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country. — Ambrose Bierce
There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government. — Aristotle
In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office. — Richard V. Allen
It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office. — Nick Clooney
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers. — Daniel J. Boorstin
Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be. — Horatio Nelson
The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace. — Rainn Wilson
The difference between a good and great officer is about ten seconds. — Arleigh Burke
When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil. — Mencius
A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories. — Richard Branson
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion. They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness. — Calvin Coolidge
Am I a great manager? Huh. I was blessed to have a front office that found great talent, and then I was smart enough to stay the hell out of their way. — Sparky Anderson
I am really rich. All of my life I have heard a truly successful, and even a modestly successful person, cannot run for public office - just can't happen. Yet that's the kind of mindset you need to make this country great again. — Donald Trump
Office Buildings Quotes
We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers. — Mitt Romney
Of course, money matters to everyone even if some don't want to admit it. If I won the Race to Dubai, I look at that prize money and think it could pay off my new house or the range I'm building. I am privileged to play golf for a living - look around St Andrews, that's my office. — Sayings
Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, where people trust one another. In military training, the first rule is to instill soldiers with trust in their officers - because without trust, they won't fight. — Peter Drucker
It was a proud moment in giving me the confidence, that I was 'stamped' in the offices as much, you know, as I would get from the streets. To where it's like I'm getting the love from the streets and from the people in the building - and that's kinda dope. — Kid Ink
That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park. — Jim Harrison
The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century. — Frank Lloyd Wright
After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is a great urge to backpack in the woods and build a fire. — Charles Krauthammer
. . . a jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce - like a basketball team standing shoulder to shoulder between you and the Mona Lisa. — Prince Charles
I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office. — John Boehner
I was a bartender in New York and I overheard this girl saying she made $3000 doing a commercial. A kid at work told me, 'Hey, I know this director and he'd really like you!'. So I walked into this guy's office and was like 'I was thinking maybe I could make $3000' and he hired me for commercials, short films, like 15 jobs in a row. — Pauley Perrette
A housewife deserves to be honored as much as a woman who earns her living in the marketplace. I consider bringing up children a responsible job. In fact, being a good housewife seems to me a much tougher job than going to the office and getting paid for it. — Betty Ford
The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership. All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you really want to be successful and you really want to be happy, don't have a job, have a purpose. ...When you've got a purpose, the whole world is your office. — Robert Holden
I was frustrated because I couldn't get going, as I was trying to figure out how to make films. I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. — David O. Russell
During job interviews, when they ask: 'What is your worst quality?', I always say: 'Flatulence'. That way I get my own office. — Dan Thompson
I've always wanted an office job so I can tell someone, "I'm going to take a long lunch," or "I'm out of the office." I don't know why, but I've always seen so much stability in clocking in. — SZA
When Mrs. Clinton ran for office, she promised economic growth across New York state, to bring in more than 200,000 jobs, ... She has not. We have lost jobs to outsourcing and globalization and to sending our jobs and industries to foreign countries. — David Brenner
No matter what the job description says, your real job is to make the boss look good. — Lois Wyse
It was definitely a scary situation and I was frightened for my husband, but that is no excuse. I was disrespectful to the officer who was just doing his job. I have nothing but respect for the police and I'm very sorry for my behavior. — Reese Witherspoon
When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe. — Mary Frances Berry
My goal was to do anything that would lead to a job. I know that writing would not lead to a job. It's too fancy for me. My biggest goal was to be an office receptionist, answer phones. I didn't expect to go beyond that. — Anchee Min
You know, it was once said of the first George Bush that he was born on third base and thought he'd hit a triple. Well, with the 22 million new jobs and the budget surplus Bill Clinton left behind, George W. Bush came into office on third base, and then he stole second. — Ted Strickland
The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job. — Tennessee Williams
The presidency is not an office job. If I only sit in the office in Dar es Salaam I'm not running the country. — Jakaya Kikwete
I think I would never be ready to do a regular job. I couldn’t go to the office every day at the same hour. I love my life. This freedom. — Gaspard Ulliel
I'm an Air Force officer first, a pilot second and then Nicole. The female part is last. . . . My job is to be the best right wingman that I can be. — Nicole Malachowski
My acting ability would have sent me back to the post office. It was my singing that got me jobs. Ironically, now, people think of me as an actor and don't know me much as a singer. — Robert Guillaume
Financial firms are sending their back-office jobs overseas. But what do fine artists do? They create something new, unexpected, and delightful that changes the world. MFA abilities are harder to outsource and more important in an abundant world. — Daniel H. Pink
I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job is the Constitution of the United States, I am not a government employee. I am in the Constitution. — Tom DeLay
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
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
And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets about how they deploy their police officers to the greatest effect to ensure that they're able to do the job that the public want them to do. — Theresa May
As an intelligence officer, if you don't have a security clearance, you really don't have a job. My military position was, and has been, frozen, for four years. — Paula Broadwell
The best way to appreciate your job is to, is here to stay. — Oscar Wilde
Everything I commission - whether it is for me or for a client's home or for a hotel or office - is absolutely unique to that job. I have everything made, or I find vintage and antique pieces at markets and auctions. — Kelly Wearstler
I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films. I got grants from NYSCA and NEA for an idea, which later became 'Huckabees,' about a guy in a Chinese restaurant who had microphones on every table and heard every personal conversation and would write perversely personal fortunes. — David O. Russell
Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it's a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and there are things I see where I can punch people out. Therefore, we have some new people now, and the kids are going to read our books. — Avi Arad
I hadn't yet realised that learning to be a staff officer is something like learning to milk a cow. The novelty soon wears off, and the job becomes burdensome, and smelly. As a boy I learned the hard way that if you demonstrated skill at milking a cow, somebody would keep you milking one. It's the same way being a good staff officer. — Aubrey Newman
There is much work to do to protect forests from over-timbering and oceans and lakes from over-fishing. We need to encourage and reward companies that create jobs to reduce the carbon footprints of offices and buildings and homes. — Philip Kotler
The number of CEOs voluntarily leaving their jobs or being forced out spiked early. Many of those companies will be turning to an interim CEO to take the reins. These temporary leaders are increasingly in demand, according to those who watch corner office trends. — Steve Inskeep
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