It's not always thankless. Let's face it - it's not always thankless. I've gotten a lot of really great recognition and I've worked with amazing people.
When I was 5, my father was very much my hero. And he ran for political office in a very thankless campaign for a very thankless position. And he did it because his mother had instilled in him, if you are someone who has the capacity to make a great ...
I started volunteering at an animal shelter, and little by little, my life started getting better. I think that is the secret. It is just being on a mission that is something bigger than me and it's thankless. You do that because it is thankless, and...
The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking.
Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately, there are not too many good hotel managers.
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job.
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
We are surrounded every day by people who do thankless but important work.
L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.
This is our life now: slaving away in thankless, monotonous jobs and spending half our salaries on fattening food.
Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea
When I did 'The Social Network', David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool.
We need to reward the 'thankless job' of substitute teaching with better pay and chances for permanent positions. I look forward to the day when no student comes home saying, 'I didn't learn much today... we had a sub.'
Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.
Being a caretaker is, and never will be, an easy job; in fact, it is that hardest job in the world and many times a thankless job. You have to be the pillar of strength even when you feel like you are crumbling to pieces inside.
Distributing unsolicited You’re Welcomes, it’s a thankless task. It’s almost as if people don’t want to see me at 4 AM as I knock on their doors.
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein l...
