If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.
When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I served Billy Corgan shrimp off a tray.
You can't blame someone for not knowing what his or her job should be if you don't ask for it right off the bat.
Your ability will get you the job, but you also need to have age on your side. So if you started your career at 21, you have an advantage over others in your batch who started at, say, 24.
It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.
I pointed out on the floor last year, after Hurricane Katrina, we were very proud that one of our National Guard engineering battalions was called to Louisiana. And they did a magnificent job.
Our job... as we take forward this mantle of leadership as a new generation is to ensure that we not only bring our party back together, which has been bruised and battered this week, but that... we bring the parliament back together.
The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
When I reached America, there was so much space and colour. The possibilities seemed endless. At least that's how I felt at 18. But of course, I didn't have to take the usual immigrant route of battling to find a job and a home in a strange country. I could play tennis. I spoke the language, and I was making money. It was easy, really.
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'
A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.
Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.
Henry David Thoreau was an oddball job quitter and ne'er-do-well who evolved into the bearded sage of literature, natural history, and civil liberties.
Often, parents feel overwhelmed. Many must accomplish the whole job single-handedly while bearing all of the emotional pain of divorce.
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
I think Joshua has been doing a good job winning his fights and beating the guys in front of him. You got to congratulate him for his success.
I have the greatest job in the world. I get paid loads of cash for beating the crap out of people. And I'm very good at it.
Teaching is just something that has come naturally to me. I didn't set out to be a teacher. I wanted to be a Beatle! But there were only four of them, so the job openings were really limited.
