Y Quotes
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“Your job as a young adult is to become as valuable to the marketplace as you can. Your job as a human is to do so without working a day in your life.”
“Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what's beneath the word.”
Source: Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel
“Your job as an actor is to be a storyteller and communicate to people. And I think it's very easy to see whether or not people are listening.”
“Your job as an actor is to stay employed.”
“Your job as an entrepreneur or executive or project creator is to set things in motion, not do it all yourself!”
“Your job as an executive is to edit, not write. It's OK to write once in a while but if you do it often there's a fundamental problem with the team. Every time you do something ask if you're writing or editing and get in the mode of editing.”
“Your job as CEO is to be the fastest person of the company.”
“Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize critically-neve r to repeat claims uncritically, no matter how highly placed the sources in the bureaucracy. Don't ever forget that. You're a damn good writer, but that talent is completely worthless if you forget your job description.”
“Your job gives you authority. Your behavior gives you respect”
“Your job in life is to look after yourself and to find ways to get what you need - emotionally and otherwise - so that you live your best possible life, without being mired in anger and hurt over the past.”
“Your job is always the same if it's a juggernaut or if it's just one of these little jewels of a film that's gonna wind up at the Laemmle or something, so your job doesn't change whatsoever... give it your best shot.”
“Your job is not done when you have determined your goal. You must also plan for and determine how it is to be accomplished. Goals and plans are meaningless if they cannot be executed successfully!”
“Your job is not to be perfect, your job is only to be human.”
“Your job is not to illuminate the world but to illuminate yourself! And when you illuminate yourself, the world will sooner or later meet your illumination!”
“Your job is not to lower the bottom by adjusting for and accommodating the lowest-performing employees. You should be raising the top by recognizing and rewarding superstar behavior.”
“Your job is not your life. It is a means to live your life.”
“Your job is obviously very pressured."
"I thrive under pressure," I explain. Which is true. I've known that about myself ever since...
Well. Ever since my mother told me when I was about 8.”
Source: The Undomestic Goddess
“Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.”
Source: Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
“Your job is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self.”
Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
“Your job is to be you, which includes being the chief beneficiary of all things you do right, the chief victim of all you do wrong, and the one person on Earth who has to live with every choice you make. As gatekeeper to your life, you’re it.”
“Your job is to create an organization that’s a great place to be from.”
“Your job is to create. Their job is to try to stop you. Don't do both jobs.”
“Your job is to do what God wants you to do: be a provider for your family and be happy, joyous, and free. If you aren't joyous, happy, and free, you aren't doing Goď's work for you.”
Source: Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
“Your job is to do your job with all your heart to the best of your ability. Life will go it’s own merry way at it’s own pace. But if you do then you – and life – will be the richer for you being here.”
“Your job is to facilitate and improve your capacity so that when an idea comes you can facilitate it. That's your job as a human being, in my opinion anyway.”
“Your job is to focus on my personal happiness, she said, & I've got big plans, so break time is over.”
“Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions.”
“Your job is to give people a reason to keep reading.”
“Your job is to help your customers get the most out of their purchase and feel like they have gotten true value for their money.”
Source: Happy Customers
“Your job is to let me be a mess, keep me from deciding I'm not, urging me against getting my messiness over others.”
Source: Jarring Sex
“Your job is to make the audience care.”
Source: Make It Count: How to deliver high-stakes presentations to people you need to impress at work
“Your job is to meet the right people and read the right books.”
“Your job is to point that rifle into the other guy's face and shoot him dead.”
“Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing.”
Source: Cutting for Stone
“Your job is to RESPOND and follow those inner juicy promptings that show up daily to seduce you awake. That’s what it means to live sensually ignited life.”
“Your job is to set out on Life’s journey as a voyager, which you already have by having been born (an act that, well, happened beyond you!). Life’s job is to reach you to the shore, which it eventually will, but not before it has tossed you up and down and churned your insides several times over. So, don’t sweat over anything. It is simply not worth it! Remember: your Life’s happening exactly the way it must. Train your mind to be non-worrying, non-frustrated and non-suffering. Be happy! Let Life take over, you simply go with the flow…!”
“Your job is to take notes, my job is to make that impossible.”
“Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.”
“Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.”
Source: On Writing
“Your job isn't to judge. - Your job isn't to figure out if someone deserves something or decide who is right or wrong. - Your job is to lift the fallen, restore the broken, and heal the hurting.”
“Your job isn’t to make money. It’s to find a problem that needs solving.”
“Your job on Earth, therefore, is not to learn (because you already know), but to remember Who You Are. And to remember who everyone else is.”
Source: The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“Your job today tells me nothing of your future--your use of your leisure today tells me just what your tomorrow will be.”
“Your job won't be taken by AI, but rather by someone who understands and knows how to use AI”
Source: Disrupt Yourself Or Be Disrupted
“Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your family and friends will. Stay in touch.”
“Your job won't take care of you when you'll be sailing through loneliness or going though a tragedy in life. Your friends will. Make good friends and stay in touch.”
“Your job, as an actor, is never to just do what you're told. That's boring, and life is too short. It's your job to bring something, and it will either be to other people's taste or your own taste, and you have to try things out. Actors say, "Well, as long as the director's happy," but I don't believe that and I don't agree with that. I want the director to be happy, but if I'm not happy, I won't sleep at night.”
“Your job, with all that mental training and suffering, is just to push your line of breaking so far your opponent can't find it.”
“Your job, work, life assignment must be the spark that fuels your fire. It must be a passion that you pursue. You must want it enough to do it for free. You must be willing to stick with it, taking the ups and downs, giving it all that you are for as long as you can! You’ve got to taste it, smell it, know it whether you are awake or asleep. If you do not have a lustful passion for your work, you really need to find something else to do.”
Source: Acts Of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Colour