- 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
- Programming
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what my job is: to create quality programming.
- Panic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got out of university and there was a general panic throughout my family as to what I was going to do. For about six months, I did this job in recruitment and I was just so awful at it. I jumped before I was pushed.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but a lot of my interests are in politics so I’m going to use that.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a war reporter - scrabbling around, exposing things. I didn't want to go to university, I wanted to get a job, but Auntie Beryl said I should go to Oxford.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was older and I first started working, I was obsessed with buying my first Chanel jacket. I saved up my hard-earned money, went to Barneys, and bought a little black Chanel jacket. It saw many, many job interviews and many, many events. I'm not fitting into it lately, but I still have it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Denmark's fall and winter were really cold and long, actually, but my job often takes me to paradise, so I can't complain.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Filming scenes like that are always odd but I feel comfortable with Josh and care about him a great deal, so it could be much worse. Scenes like that are just part of the job.
- Modeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was studying to be a dental hygienist and working as a dental assistant. I met a photographer and decided to put my job on hold for just a summer to begin modeling.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you could be a photographer for a job.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020