“Yorkie has officially retired about 5 times... The man's a clown... People are going on about the game and agents and directors of football and managers losing their jobs, but we should be worried about people like him... Clowns. That's the last time I'm going to say clown... If he's the vice-president of FIFA, God help us all.” PeopleIfsMenShouldHelpingJobsLastsGamesPresidentFootballDirectorsLosingVicesAgentsManagersSoccerWorriedLast TimeClownRetiredChairmanVice PresidentGod HelpGod Help UsFifa Author:Roy Keane
“If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job.” IfsJobsFootballEnglandManagersSoccerChairmanSwedish Author:Brian Clough
“He wants to be his own man and be recognized for what he's done. He's not asking for anything because of his name. That was a tough situation to go into at Alabama, but he probably wouldn't have been given the job if the situation would have been different.” IfsMenWantHas BeensDifferentDoneJobsNamesGivenSportsSituationToughAskingAlabamaTough Situations Author:Don Shula
“Government has the responsibility to provide the climate in which Americans, all Americans, have an opportunity for good jobs; and not only for good jobs, but an opportunity if they have the ability and the desire, to be owners and managers, to have a piece of the action, because if they have a piece of the action, then they believe in the system rather than fighting against it.” IfsBelieveWisdomGovernmentActionJobsDesireFightingOpportunityPoliticsAbilityResponsibilityEconomyPiecesClimateManagersLiberalismOwnersGood Job Author:Richard M. Nixon
“Looking back at it now, I really feel like it was a gift because I don’t know if I have the talent to become a prima ballerina. It’s such a hard job to have. I don’t have any regrets about it.” IfsKnowsFeelsHardJobsTalentRegretLooking BackBallerina Author:Diane Kruger
“Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.” IfsMenWantYearsLooksWantedJobsStuffLike YouTenSellingModelingSalesperson Author:Uma Thurman
“In the USA, where so many people compete for one and the same thing, where job opportunities, residential facilities, and food resources have to be spread over so many people, the question of justice becomes more imperative than ever before if communal and individual life is to be made possible and enjoyable.” PeopleIfsMadeWisdomJobsLife IsOpportunityPoliticsIndividualJusticeEconomyResourcesSpreadUsaLiberalismImperativesEnjoyableFacilityIndividual LifeJob Opportunities Author:Ndabaningi Sithole
“We typically hear numbers that there are 34 million households that are in stocks in some form. Well, I say that what's occurred is if you have a job in this country, you're in stocks.” IfsWellsCountryJobsFormNumbersMillionsEconomyHousehold Author:Jim Cramer
“It's not my fault Snow didn't have any other options coming out of high school. If going to college gets you a career backup goaltender job, and my route gets you a thousand points and a thousand games, and compare the two contracts, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out whose decision was better.” IfsTwoSchoolJobsGamesDecisionCareersFiguresCollegeThousandHigh SchoolScientistFaultsSnowCompareContractsComing OutRoutesRocketsNhlBackupGoing To College Author:Jeremy Roenick
“My job is to make sure that, as President, people understand that in this country you can worship any way you choose. And I'll take that a step further. You can be a patriot if you don't believe in the Almighty. You can honor your country and be as patriotic as your neighbor.” PeopleIfsWayBelieveCountryJobsPresidentStepsAtheismHonorWorshipDon't BelievePositive AtheismNeighborPatrioticYou ChooseAlmightyPatriot Author:George W. Bush
“I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'” IfsMenYearsMeanHas BeensSaidJobsMotherLiteratureGoneCollegeSummerOld ManFlashJuniorsAugustJunior Year Author:Chris Matthews
“It is not bad living in a monastery. I've done it many times in many lives. But I think you can do a better job outside the monastery, if you have the necessary component parts.” IfsThinkingDoneJobsCan DoBuddhismComponentsBetter JobsMonasteries Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you are smart, you never retire. You may retire from that job you have had for many years, but you will pick up another career for yourself of some type.” IfsYearsMayJobsSuccessCareersBuddhismTypeSmartPicksRetiring Author:Frederick Lenz
“When I retire, I'm going after his job. If I don't make sheriff, I'm going after his job. He's not that good. You can quote me on that.” IfsJobsNbaRetiringRefereeSheriffs Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“I always revered people that I thought had an idea and proceeded through with it. I guess I've been that way since the day I called my father and told him I was going to study acting and maybe try to see if I could do well with that, and he told me: "Don't do that. You don't want to do that, that's just dream stuff. Get a legitimate job and move forward."” PeopleIfsWayWantTryingWellsIdeasDreamJobsMovingFatherStuffActingStudyMoving ForwardIf I Could Author:Clint Eastwood
“I do my podcast on Mondays for a specific reason. A lot of people go to work and don't like their jobs. If you give people something to laugh about, it's good.” PeopleIfsGivingReasonJobsLaughingMonday Author:Bill Burr
“I have a hard time saying "no" if it's right. I don't say "no" to say "no." I said "no" when I didn't have a pot to piss in. I still said "no" to big money jobs because they didn't make creative sense to me.” IfsSaidStillsHardBigsJobsCreativeHard TimesPotSaying No Author:Jeremy Renner
“One thing you learn in this job [being US President] is that even if something's not your fault, you're still responsible. And that's how it should be.” IfsShouldStillsJobsPresidentOne ThingResponsibleFaultsUs President Author:Barack Obama
“I find that if somebody is writing and drawing a comic book, planning it to be a movie and a game at the same time tends to lead to a pretty lame job.” IfsWritingBookJobsGamesDrawingPlanningComicComic BookLame Author:Frank Miller
“This is advice I would give to any young actor - if you go into a room with anybody and you come in with a positive attitude and a place of love, and you truly do love what you're doing, then the negative energy doesn't even get into the room. You just have to prepare, and then go in and be the best you that you can be, and you'll either get the job or you won't.” IfsGivingJobsYoungActorsEnergyRoomsAttitudeAdviceNegativePositive AttitudeBeing The BestYoung ActorsNegative Energy Author:Adam Baldwin
“The longer you stay in the job that you do the more you learn about what those around you do. As an actor I've always nosed around apologetically about: "oh wouldn't it be interesting if I could do that?" I can't imagine not wanting to do this everyday.” IfsI CanJobsActorsInterestingImagineEverydayIf I Could Author:Jason Bateman
“The way I see the job, my definition of it, is to create characters to the best of your ability and then fit into what's trying to be accomplished in the general framework of the film. I think that's whether you're doing this- even if you're doing musical theater. That's what I think an actors job is. I don't know. I like to think what an actors job is is to create characters.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayTryingCharacterJobsFilmActorsAbilityFitTheaterMusicalDefinitionsAccomplishedFrameworkMusical Theater Author:Anton Yelchin
“As an actor playing a character, you look for all of those avenues to see if there's any sense of vulnerability or love that you can bring to a character, and decide how that's portrayed and how that's going to be a struggle with the other characters. It's your job to take that on and challenge yourself, and meet that head on and see what happens with it.” IfsLooksCharacterHappensJobsActorsChallengesStruggleVulnerabilityAvenuesChallenge Yourself Author:David Boreanaz
“If you need someone to come out of the sewer with a wire you don't hire someone who needs laborious collective instruction. You let someone do his job, whether he's a focus puller or a surgeon.” IfsNeedsJobsFocusCollectivesInstructionWireSurgeonsSewers Author:William Monahan
“Let's stop wasting billions of dollars on prisons, which send people home who are too often less capable and more damaged than when they went in. We would have safer neighborhoods if we spent the same money on true rehabilitation, job training, employment and entrepreneurship.” PeopleIfsHomeJobsCapableTrainingDollarsPrisonBillionsEmploymentEntrepreneurshipNeighborhoodRehabilitationJob Training Author:Van Jones
“A lot of people aren't familiar with me, but it's not my job to make people familiar with me. There's millions of artists out there. I'm just gonna do what I wanna do, and if people feel the stuff that I'm doing, then great.” PeopleIfsFeelsJobsArtistStuffMillionsFamiliar Author:Riff Raff
“I've never stopped loving the game since day one. If it were a job to me it would be very hard for me to get up in the morning. And why leave something that you can never come back to? Realistically, whether you accept it or not, you only get one wave in this journey. Run at it as hard as you can.” IfsHardWould BeRunningJobsGamesAcceptingMorningJourneyWaveGet Up Author:Ray Lewis
“If we don't create private sector jobs and just - just creating public sector jobs, we're going nowhere. This is a bad game. You've got to have innovation. You've got to have tax policies that support innovation.” IfsJobsGamesSupportPolicyTaxesCreatingInnovationPrivate SectorPublic SectorBad Games Author:Jack Welch
“If I had been literate, I wouldn't have sold drugs. I just wanted a job. I would have worked at McDonald's. And I would have put the same effort into the fries and mopping the floor that I would have put into drugs. I'm the kind of person that always wants to do a job the best I can. I don't believe in half-doing jobs.” IfsWantBelieveKindPersonsI CanWantedJobsEffortHalfDrugDon't BelieveMcdonaldsFriesMopping Author:Rick Ross
“I think, in life, being nervous about something that's forthcoming is very helpful, whether it's an awards show or a family gathering or a job interview. If you're too calm and confident, then I think you aren't executing to the best of your ability. So I try not to let nerves get the best of me, but I welcome them because it tends to fuel me to try harder.” IfsThinkingTryingShowsJobsAbilityHarderCalmWelcomeNervousInterviewsFuelHelpfulNervesAwardsGatheringExecutingBest Of MeJob InterviewAward ShowsForthcomingFamily Gathering Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“I try to give my work everything I've got, because when you're dead or you're out of the business or you're in an old actors' home somewhere, if you've done a good job, your work will still be 16 years old and dancing and healthy and pirouetting and arabesquing all over the place. And they'll say, "That's who he is! He's not this decaying skeleton."” IfsGivingTryingYearsStillsDoneHomeJobsActorsHealthyDancingGood JobSkeletons Author:Mel Brooks
“When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn't handle it. It was some sort of neurotic phobia. I guess I was paranoid that people would treat me differently, or in an unfair way, because of my job.” PeopleIfsWayJobsTreatsHandleRuinsTeenagerUnfairNeuroticParanoidPhobia Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.” IfsThinkingWorldDoeJobsArtistActorsGoalHollywoodBunchFilmmakerDecentDisagreeHacksBad MoviesBest Artist Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“Take your job seriously, BUT don't take their complaints personally. If you take it personally you'll get upset and lose your edge. If you take it too personally, you'll lose your edge and your job. If you take it seriously -- it's you with them. If you take it personally, it's you against them. What steps can you take to ensure keeping your cool?” IfsJobsLosesStepsEdgesUpsetClientsComplaintsYou AgainSalesmanshipGreat Customer Service Author:Jeffrey Gitomer
“I have always been focused on my job. No profession allows you the luxury of being half-focused. If you're not into it, you're not there. And the film industry is all the more harsh in these cases, perhaps because it's a business of the limelight.” IfsJobsFilmHalfCasesIndustryFocusedProfessionLuxuryHarshFilm IndustryLimelight Author:Deepika Padukone
“I laugh at it now, but one time I had an agent tell me I would never work in TV if I didn't get a nose job. People tell you to change yourself to fit into the L.A. scene, but the advice usually doesn't make any sense. The next agent told me my nose was great!” PeopleIfsJobsNextLaughingAdviceTvsFitSceneAgentsNosesOne TimeChange Yourself Author:Amanda Righetti
“Before I accept a job, I always talk to folks about it. Why does he kill these 22 people? If they say, What difference does it make? I know we have nothing more to talk about. A character has to be three-dimensional.” PeopleIfsKnowsDoeCharacterJobsThreeDifferencesAcceptingFolks Author:Powers Boothe
“I dont see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.” IfsThinkingCharacterStoriesJobsActorsFitSomali Author:Barkhad Abdi
“At times I ask myself if I shouldnt be living a more regular, stable life with a 9-to-5 job. Then I think about it and realise that there is no point in planning everything.” IfsThinkingJobsAsksPlanningRealisingStableNo PointStable Life Author:Meredith Ostrom
“Fame is one of the potential hazards of this job, but I really just want to make movies. I want to be respected, sure. Who doesnt? But famous-famous? I just dont care about it. And if you genuinely dont give a damn about that stuff, you really are free.” IfsWantGivingCareJobsStuffFameDon't CareDamnHazards Author:Brady Corbet
“I have often asked myself if I would have worked as hard if I was as ill as Steve Jobs. My answer is that my wife most likely would not have let me work, and I would have stayed home. But I am not Steve Jobs.” IfsHardHomeJobsAnswersWifeLet MeIllMy Wife Author:Terry Gou
“For actors, being successful is generally getting a job. If you can work a lot, you're really successful. If you work a lot on projects that are interesting and intelligent and great fun to be part of, then you're hugely successful. And I feel hugely successful. I can't believe that I get to be involved with the projects and the people I work with.” PeopleIfsFeelsBelieveI CanJobsActorsFunInterestingSuccessfulInvolvedProjectsIntelligentBeing Successful Author:Anne-Marie Duff
“The life of an actor is very random. It can be exhilarating but terrifying - you do wonder day to day where the next job will come from. Some of my friends are very talented people, but you see them out of work - which can be tough. If you wanted that kind of security, though, I guess you wouldn't be an actor in the first place.” PeopleIfsFirstsKindWantedJobsNextActorsWonderSecurityMy FriendsToughDay To DayExhilarating Author:Anne-Marie Duff
“I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.” PeopleIfsWantBigsJobsFilmWorstTruth IsMachinesPaidIncrediblesCraftsDisrespectfulCogs Author:Paddy Considine
“I think that if youve got 5 million people that enjoy drama and invest in characters, you must take the time to not worry about your job and getting sacked and just go for it and hit it again.” PeopleIfsThinkingCharacterJobsEnjoyMillionsWorryDrama Author:Max Beesley
“If you offer me a job sitting in a Winnebago with make-up girls and free food, I'm probably going to take it.” IfsJobsGirlOffersSittingFree Food Author:Ross Kemp
“I have a day job, which means my family isnt dependent on the writing income. So if I have an idea I like, I write it.” IfsWritingMeanIdeasJobsMy FamilyIncomeDependentDay Jobs Author:Jim C. Hines
“If theres a sustainable job that will create sustainable value, people will hire for it.” PeopleIfsJobsValues Author:David Cunliffe
“To jump-start our economy, we must leave cash in your hands - because if youve got money in your pocket, youll spend it at the hardware store or the corner market, and that will drive job growth in our private sector.” IfsHandsJobsGrowthEconomyCornersStoresPocketsCashPrivate SectorHardwareJob Growth Author:Tim Walz
“My days in hostel were tough. I was ragged by my seniors. We were asked to wash their dirty clothes, do their odd jobs, etc. When it came to eating, we would be often given burnt rotis and milk that had awful odour. But, never once did I call home. I knew if I had to become a tough cricketer, I would have to handle the pressure.” IfsHomeWould BeJobsGivenEatingClothesToughPressureHandleAwfulDirtyOddEtcMilkSeniorCricketersRaggedOdd JobsDirty Clothes Author:Suresh Raina