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In reality, most of America's poor work hard, often in two or more jobs. -- Robert Reich
I get up every day and work, regardless of if I have a job or not. -- Christian Kane
If you're self-employed, between jobs, or can't get insurance through work, you'll have access to affordable health insurance as good as Congressman Paul Ryan's. -- Kathleen Sebelius
Social media is about friending someone so they'll invite you to a party or get you a job. If that's the work, Snapchat is the playground. -- Evan Spiegel
The first rejection that 'Dexter' got, I was like, 'OK. This hasn't worked. Let's try something else. I'll go get a teaching job or something.' -- Jeff Lindsay
I didn't want to go to college or work in an office or have a nine-to-five job. I knew that quite clearly before I left school. -- Aidan Gillen
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. -- Henry Moore
People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work. -- Anatole Broyard
When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease until the job is done. -- Ava DuVernay
And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree. -- Donald A. Norman
Everything that I do has to be something new and something challenging, or with people that I want to work with. I take jobs for different reasons. -- Lindsay Price
Are those 'terrible' machines really putting those people out of work? Or are they getting rid of a really dull job that we shouldn't be torturing people with? -- Rodney Brooks
Work-life balance for founders doesn't look like work-life balance for everyone else. Starting a company isn't a nine-to-six job - or a nine-to-nine job, or a nine-to-midnight job. -- Kathryn Minshew
Lie detectors sometimes work because people believe they work, deterring the wrong people from applying for jobs in the first place, or prompting admissions of guilt during interrogations. -- Bill Dedman
If they respect the craft and what we're doing and they bring something to the table and they work hard, I don't care what you do as your side job or as your day job. -- Anthony Anderson
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison. -- Tim Allen
It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long. -- Steve Jobs
Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well- paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it. -- Alice S. Rossi
You never know why or when the next job is coming. I actually like that. It's kind of exciting. I don't punch in. I don't have a 9 to 5 job. When you do work you're lucky enough to go to interesting places and meet mostly interesting and talented people, so it's really a great job if you can work. -- Michael Vartan
I feel incredibly lucky at this moment in my career to get paid to do basically exactly what I always wanted to do. I appreciate that in general. But you know, like any job, a job is a job, and there are days that are going to be boring, or you have a boss you don't like, or people you work with. -- Nick Kroll
Are you doing work worth doing, or are you just doing your job? -- Seth Godin
If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job. -- Leo Tolstoy
If you work hard doing the wrong job, is it really work? Or is it some kind of fakery? -- D. J. MacHale
Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love? -- Jay Samit
There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today. -- Nevil Shute
You need to work even if it is a menial or dirty job, because every job is participating in the process of creation. -- Sunday Adelaja
Whether we call it a job or a career, work is more than just something we do. It is a part of who we are. -- Anita Hill
In your company or industry, work every job in that industry. It's the only way of having a complete understanding of your people and your company. -- John Catsimatidis
People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work. -- Anatole Broyard
And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree. -- Donald A. Norman
A job is a job, and there are days that are going to be boring, or you have a boss you don't like, or people you work with. -- Nick Kroll
I think a successful adaptation rises or falls on the work presented. If people need to read the book to understand the play, I didn't complete the job. -- Jeff Britting
I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job. -- William Petersen
I think fiction writers should work. If you have a job and are not living off advances or grants, you never have to make concessions in your writing, ever. -- Hanya Yanagihara

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