The public’s evaluation of the job George W. Bush is doing as president changed dramatically as a result of the horrific attacks of September 11 and his response in leading the country on a campaign against terrorism

I don’t know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it’s not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.

I quit my day job the day my daughter was born. I remember flying to Cleveland and hitting a thunderstorm, which caused the plane to lose pressure, and the oxygen masks fell from the ceiling. We felt the plane dropping; the pilot was taking it down to regain cabin pressure. My heart was in my stomach. I found out after landing that her mom was in labor. I did the show and came back to New York. By the time I walked into the hospital, my daughter was being born. She was waiting for me. She’s a sweet daddy’s girl. She’s premed. She has her own pie company. She works for Habitat for Humanity.

It’s not the way you want to get a job, to see someone you admire and look up to and learned so much from get fired.

Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.

The most important job anyone can ever have is being a mother.

Acting is not just a job; it’s a privilege—a chance to share the human experience in all its shades

I think it’s really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I’m just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.

It’s my job to be better than the rest, and that’s enough reason to go for me. It’s my job to be better than the rest, and that makes the day for me.

The only thing God didn’t do to Job was give him a computer.

It didn’t feel sporting to shoot at a crazy person, even if that person was a vampire who’d agreed to the job.

Alphas simply did not grovel; arrogance was part of the job description.

America is where standup comedy was born. It’s the standard. So you want to go and do your job where this is the mecca of what you do.

Money is a bonus of the job, but it doesn’t always make you happy.

It is their job as actors to play different people. Should only a doctor play a doctor’s role?

You can’t really predict what’s going to happen. The only thing you can control is your work ethic and how well you do your job.

If you’re not going to put 120 percent into your job, why bother?

You know why I’ve survived in this job, year after year, lousy assignment after lousy assignment, with no counseling whatsoever? Because I have a keen appreciation of the ludicrous. Also because I have no choice.

I myself was a wedding photographer when I was, like, 16.

No, I can tell you one of the first things that happens to a home secretary when they arrive in the job is that they are given a briefing about the security matters that they will be dealing with and I deal with security matters on a daily basis

And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets about how they deploy their police officers to the greatest effect to ensure that they’re able to do the job that the public want them to do

Whether an MP is a woman or a man, it’s about the qualities of the individual in doing that job

I think it’s important to do a good job and not to feel that you’ve got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver.

If ever there was a time for a PM ready and able to do the job from day one, this is it

I want to change the color of Starbucks from green to red. Whose job was it to say, This is going to be green? I want that to be my job

I moved my studio to Palm Springs ’cause I don’t like the idea of going to a studio every day like a job… I need to make a personal record, so I need to be in a house… I don’t want to be in a studio where people can hear the music ’cause I don’t know what it is yet.

Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.

A writer’s job is to ask questions, not provide answers

A writer’s job is to make the ordinary extraordinary, to reveal the magic hidden in everyday life.

A writer’s job is to challenge our assumptions and make us see the world in a new light

I believe the road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master IN THAT LINE. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one’s resources. Andrew Carnegie

A live-in domestic worker: “You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.”

A young mark twain on the make: “I can’t turn in inkstand into Aladdin’s lamp.”

The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal.

Western farmers were individualists cheifly in their dreams.

The Book of Job and the 19th Psalm, which even the Church admits to be more ancient than the chronological order in which they stand in the book called the Bible, are theological orations conformable to the original system of theology

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

My foray into comedy was to avoid getting a job.

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy

I’m working my happiness like a full time job.

I loved to play, I was competitive, I wanted to win, that was all I knew. In the first few years tennis is a game. Later, it becomes a job.

Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t

We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive

As long as you’re just smart enough to do a job and just dumb enough to swallow what they feed you, you’re gonna be alright. But if you go beyond that then you’re gonna have these grave doubts that give you stomach problems, headaches make you want to go out and do something else. So, I believe that schools mechanically and very specifically try and breed out any hint of creative thought in the kids that are coming out.

Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy’s pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.

I’m really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I’m more about the work, and ‘The Big C’ was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.

Power is a big thing in baseball. It can’t be cheapened. That is, a fellow has it or hasn’t. It isn’t a fluke or great accomplishment, like a perfect game. When Mantle connects, it’s a tape-measure job. Nobody who ever lived has more power than Mantle.

Well, there are more job prospects after ‘Love Island’

I have always been a comedian – that has always been my job and it is what I want to do for a long time to come.

The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.

I’ve wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.

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

If you learn to run your own business, you’ll never have to worry about having a job or pleasing a boss for the rest of your life.

I’ve always had a sense of responsibility, whether I’ve been captain or not. But I must say that I’m both pleased and proud to be Portugal captain, despite how young I am, because I know what it means. My job is still the same though. I need to do what I do best out on the pitch, and that’s score goals and help my team win.

I’m not for women, frankly, in any job. I don’t want any of them around. Thank God we don’t have any in the Cabinet.

I have unemployed my girlfriend. She had a job working for a cardiologist and now she can hang out, put her feet up, buy all the things she wants, have a nice breakfast with you and me in the Four Seasons. Any fights in families like mine come from everyone worrying about money. I’m taking all those worries away. That makes me feel happy, makes me really proud of what I do.

I don’t work, I live… I don’t have a job, I just have a life.

I had a job since I was old enough to work – since I was, like, 14.

I love my job. I whoop people for truckloads of cash. How could I hate this life? I love it so much. I’m grateful every single day.

You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.

A teacher is one who has a program – arithmetic, reading, writing, and so on – fulfils it conscientiously, and feels that he has done his job. An educator tries to give children something else in addition: spirit.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

I had a work ethic forced into me from the very first time I worked in a professional kitchen. I learned that you can’t do this job with half your mind.

From an early age I understood that cooking was never going to be a job, it’s a passion. Poor old Antony Worrall Thompson, poor old Delia Smith, I don’t think the penny’s dropped yet!

If you have a work instead of a job, every day is holiday.

Our job in life is to make a positive difference, not prove we’re right.

I sometimes struggle, because my job is like the antithesis of what surfing is all about. Surfing’s simple. It’s real.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

As for Hollywood, I’ve got a killer job, and I’m having a blast. I have the luxury to go on trips whenever I want and invite my friends who can’t afford it. And, God willing, I’ll be able to do all that till the day I die.

I have a lot of guys around me that help make my job easier.

I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don’t take myself all that seriously.f

What is a normal childhood? We weren’t rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn’t save any money.

A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.

I have real good parents. They poor. They have regular, poor jobs and what not. They real good people and what not; I was just raised in a bad society

No man ever listened himself out of a job

I was raised on, ‘You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.’

To ask for another relationship, or another job, is not particularly helpful if we’re going to show up in the new situation exactly as we showed up in the last one.

As long as there are ways we can serve, then we have a job to do.

I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand ‘I have a problem, it is the Government’s job to cope with it!’ or ‘I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!’ ‘I am homeless, the Government must house me!’ and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first… There is no such thing as society. There is living tapestry of men and women and people and the beauty of that tapestry and the quality of our lives will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and each of us prepared to turn round and help by our own efforts those who are unfortunate.

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

My job is to lead.

I have always done a woman’s job.

My administration has a job to do and we’re going to do it. We will rid the world of the evil-doers.

My job is to, like, think beyond the immediate.

My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions.

There is no such thing as a lousy job – only lousy men who don’t care to do it.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.

That’s my job: thinking up goofy shit.

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do so, you’ll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you’ll shake it to pieces.

I will promise you that if I can give you two good scenes – which is what I always try to do in every movie – then I feel like I’m doing my job.

Put my right hand to God, shine on these broads. Stay on my job, grind with my squad

That’s the reason we kind of exist. It’s like our Job. To give to each other. And learn from each other. To capture moments of people. So it’s really strange to have somebody ignore the obvious human being right in front of them

If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.

Just come and do you job; we’ll do our job at a high level, and that’s not a distraction. That’s what you want. Every game you want to feel like you’re fighting for something.

I used to

for Muhammad Ali, Leon Spinks, Sugar Ray Leonard. I used to bodyguard a lot of diamond merchants; I would travel with a suitcase full of diamonds and take them from point A to point B. My reputation grew because I was a professional. I did my job, and I was courteous a no nonsense guy.

This is a job and we want to have fun. But it’s a job and we should look like we’re going to work.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up

Yes, we’ve still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

Was I always going to be here? No, I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what’s going to happen.

That’s your job as the actor, to understand the human part of the character, to make it real.

I think you take a job, you owe it as much passion as the job itself demands. And most jobs demand that you be totally committed.

Every job’s a challenge. The challenge is to do it and make it look right like you belong there – wherever that is.

Once you’ve gotten the job, there’s nothing to it. If you’re an actor, you’re an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.

We always said that if the government does its job well, it can be a catalyst, an accelerator.

I have learned something about the job of being the President’s wife. She is not chosen by anyone except her husband and she really has no obligations except to him.

If you’re not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude or change your job.

Your job is what they trained you to do, your work is what you were born to do.

Your work is not your job. Your job is what they pay you to do; your work is what you were born to do.

Your job is your skill that they can fire you from at any time. But your work is your gift. No one can take that from you.

I may like, fornicate more than other people, it’s just who I am. I sacrifice so much of my life, can I at least get laid, you know what I mean? I’ve been robbed of most of my money, can I at least get a blow job?

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books

Nobody goes to work to do a bad job.

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we’ve funded ever since by putting ads on the side.

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

Our mission is to make the world more open and connected.

Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That’s truly about the game, and in some ways that’s about life too.

The enemy is the occupation, not the people.

Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100-hour weeks every week

Great companies are built on great products