Chase your passion, not your pension.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Absence of occupation is not rest, a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

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

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

I ain't ever had a job, I just always played baseball.

My son Luke thinks it's cool that his dad quit his job

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer, because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it or change it.

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job, it's a depression when you lose yours.

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.

I wake up every day and I can't wait to go to work, and that's a gift. Not too many people have the opportunity to feel that way.

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow.

I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.

What I know is is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

If my film makes one more person miserable I've done my job

My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially, because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

If you have a job without any aggravations you don't have a job.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it.

If it's your job to eat a frog it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs it's best to eat the biggest one first.

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here in the United States of America.

Masochism is a valuable job skill.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one, it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.

I knew what my job was, it was to go out and meet the people and love them.

I saw that Meryl Streep said 'I just want to do my job well'. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.

Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!

A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.

Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

It's my job to pick us up when we are down. I had to sharpen my focus.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

It was a home job. Dave (Grohl) taught me.

'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends, that's the good stuff in life.

It's my job to be the Pierrot the clown in the theatrical sense.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and at the same time selling yourself.

Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.

If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs, than we would be at full employment already.

My first job, in all honesty, is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition which will be even more of a transition for the girls... that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week, which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

Fourth to assure every entrepreneur and every job creator that their investments in America will not vanish, as have those in Greece, we will cut the deficit and put America on track to a balanced budget.

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

There are some jobs in which it is impossible for a man to be virtuous

I think it's a learning experience. We've learned we have to do a better job of closing those games. We'd much rather have won them, but we're not that far off. A play here and there and we're in a completely different position right now.

Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China because he's got a great view on China and how they're trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete.