- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Job Quotes
What a job costs, and what it takes.
Quotes about "job" here focus on careers in the arts — a warning that a comfortable day job can quietly end a musician's ambitions, and advice to take any first job just to get into the industry. For work-focused reflection, see Doing quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's great being an actor and being part of a play or a film where there's usually quite a big group of people who are collaborating, and your job is really to fit in and share that energy. With music, because I write the songs, it's a broader, more abstract process.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an actor. Both of my older brothers are actors. My younger sister is an actress. For me, that's my job; that's my craft. But then all through school and through drama school, I was gigging and running nights and playing in bands, and I just didn't want to let that go.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad said, 'If you want to go out with girls and go out with your friends, get a job.' I found one at the local country club as a pot washer in the kitchen.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I left my job at Lehman Brothers to start a company, my best friend's mother said, 'How could you leave a sure thing like Lehman to do a silly carpool startup?' That was three months before Lehman went bankrupt.
- Single
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- Nov 07, 2020
There isn't a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn't have a second job, for when there is no wind.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it weren't for this, I'd probably be working a normal job and playing on the weekends for 10 people at the Irvine Spectrum.
- Nov 07, 2020
Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
Manchester United has done an incredible job of building a young, talented, deep squad.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've sort of become the poster boy for quitting your job and following your dreams.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020