#job

It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish. ↗

— J. R. R. Tolkien

#job #longest #never #started #takes

I think the fantasy of being a movie star is more powerful than the reality. So, for me, even if it's not a great film or a great play I'm doing, to know that you went for it. You had an experience that made you grow artistically and personally. What's really satisfying is knowing that you did a good job. ↗

— Marisa Tomei

#being #did #doing #even #experience

As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#body #bone #certainly #every #felt

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses. ↗

— G. M. Trevelyan

#best #buck #coming #done #excuses

My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#bakery #because #closed #day #did

I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#cleaning #daily #doing #had #i

Every job is an opportunity to be a better person. ↗

— Benjamin Walker

#better person #every #job #opportunity #person

My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes. ↗

— Douglas Trumbull

#first #hal #job #make #screens

The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don't things are just going to head in a direction that's going to be almost impossible to recover from. ↗

— Donald Trump

#as far as #because #changed #come #concerned

Real estate is my life. It is my day job, if you will. But it consumes my nights and weekends, too. ↗

— Ivanka Trump

#day #estate #job #life #my life