Quotes of: Steady-job Keyword

Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.

John Hughes

I always have been trying to work on the other side of Jackie, and that is, making sure that my appearance, that my image, is right; also, working in the job world, knowing how it is to wake up and go to a job.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job advertised and applied, and got it. That was back in 1977, when getting jobs was easy.

Lee Child

We didn't start this war - the right wing did. We're tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it's about jobs and it's about rebuilding America.

James P. Hoffa

That had been the end of Communism. I had a feeling watching the tape that America would be next, but for once I kept my mouth shut. In my silence I felt our common ground: here we were, two men, neither young, neither with money, neither earning a p...

The Cliff Walk: A Memoir of a Job Lost and a Life Found

In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time. Even Grandma often says that, but she and Steppa don't have jobs, so I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well. In Room me and Ma had time for ...

Room

Years later, on a Steve Jobs discussion board on the website Gawker, the following tale appeared from someone who had worked at the Whole Foods store in Palo Alto a few blocks from Jobs' home: 'I was shagging carts one afternoon when I saw this silve...

Walter Isaacson

Self-destruction is inevitable because existence is a full-time job.

Confessions of a Self-Help Writer: The Journal of Michael Enzo

If you need an alarm clock, you need a new job.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Why are you always trying to get yourself killed?" "It's my job." "It's a of your job. At least for most Shadowhunters. For you it seems to be the purpose.

City of Fallen Angels

We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in.

Brit Marling

I thought she wanted out. We should've brought cuffs and a gag." Clare frowned. "What's wrong with you, Blake? This is a rescue mission, not a kidnapping.

A Job From Hell

We're close. I can smell their faint scent," Blake whispered. Kieran snorted. "That makes one of us. All I smell is dog shit.

A Job From Hell

Sculley found Jobs as memorable as his machine. " He seemed more a showman than a businessman. Every move seemed calculated, as if it was rehearsed, to create an occasion of the moment.

Steve Jobs

As Friedland had done and as Jobs would learn to do, he was able to turn charm into a cunning force, to cajole and intimidate and distort reality with the power of his personality

Steve Jobs

Given the circumstances, I think the rabbi did a very good job. What did you think?” “It's my policy not to review funerals.

May We Be Forgiven

You go to school to get a job, and you get a job to take time off to do nothing. Why not do nothing to begin with? Pierre Anthon

Nothing

I can’t do my job, if you don’t do yours. I also can’t do my job, so can you do mine too?

Seriously delirious, but not at all serious

. . . have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” —Steve Jobs

Spiritual Activism: Keys for Personal and Political Success

This is not his job, I thought, it's his passion.

Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul

The eyes were certainly memorable and beautiful, moist calves' eyes heavily lashed and with the same look of troubled pain at the unpredictability of the world's terrors.

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman