Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.
What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.
The job of the writer is to take a close and uncomfortable look at the world they inhabit, the world we all inhabit, and the job of the novel is to make the corpse stink.
Social media is about friending someone so they'll invite you to a party or get you a job. If that's the work, Snapchat is the playground.
Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also lose the habits needed to hold down any job.
If you decide you want to work in the film industry, you just have to bite the bullet and take other jobs until the proper jobs come in.
We’re all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the job all day 4) We are committed over the long haul 5) The stakes for us are high and real 6) We accept remuneration for our labor 7) We do not overidenti...
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
Human beings have always been an unfinished species, a story in the middle, a succession of families, tribes, and societies in transition to new awarenesses. Although we have always prided ourselves on our willingness to adapt to all habitats, and on...
There is a unique bond between the land and the people in the Crescent City. Everyone here came from somewhere else, the muddy brown current of life prying them loose from their homeland and sweeping them downstream, bumping and scraping, until they ...
For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may be long or short. Then the Readers die one by one and the Work continues on alone, although a new Criticism and new...
Everybody was hoping for something, talking about our new life to come and all that they hoped from it. Fresh air, whatever that’s supposed to mean. Real gravity, instead of the fake kind that broke every now and then (even though no one over fifte...
But for a younger generation of conservative operatives who would soon rise to power... They were true believers who meant what they said, whether it was 'No New Taxes' or 'We are a Christian Nation.' In fact, with their rigid doctrines, slash-and-bu...
I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.
Don't lean on your fellow men -- theirs is an ever moving support.
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.
In my job, people tell you that all the time: 'This shoot was great. You look amazing.' But you never know what they say when you turn away.
Can't you see, Amber? Losing you would be like a stake to my heart.
We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?
Great job, you just executed Ben Franklin! - Otto Ray
