Chris Noth Quotes

A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it.

I feel so fortunate and lucky I don't have to be a waitress or a bartender or a personal trainer.

Hell, if I didn't do stunts, I'd have had to be a bartender, or something else that didn't pay well.

If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun.

I'm always happy to have a job.

The guys have told me not to quit my day job.

Up until like five seconds ago, I just took what jobs came along.

People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.

I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying.

I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now. I'm enjoying my life and I'm enjoying my work, and I'm enjoying the fact that the work I'm doing is garnering some interest and that's great. I just hope that it continues.

People want opportunity so they can earn security.

I'd like to just work - steadily work - and do parts that I enjoy doing.

You take jobs so much of the time when you don't need to necessarily work for a living, but it becomes important who you are going to work with.

I have never been interested in specific roles.

If you don't allow yourself to change from book to book - take chances - it turns into a dullish job with no health benefits or pension plan and only intermittent paychecks.

The physical lot of … workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's school education was assured by the government-operated schools: in addition, they had, for intellectual or emotional stimulus and diversion, the radio and the television. But the work itself was no longer as various, as interesting, or as sustaining to the personality...

What Is a Good Job? It is a job for which the worker is qualified and for which he has been prepared. It is one which will not enslave him for life, but which shall employ him for as long a time as he needs it in order to win his own economic safety for life. It is one which will reward him lavishly — not in wages or in any form of money payments since money is far too unstable a medium for such purposes — but it shall reward him with due amounts of the actual things and services which he requires in the carrying on of his daily existence.

For me, there is no greater sunshine in politics or in life than to have a job, security for your family, a good school place where you know your child is going, and the sense that if I put in, there will be a decent, secure retirement at the end of it all.

I quit my job when I was earning Rs 1.5 lakh per month, when my position was at a peak, I had a H1-B and could have gone offshore and lived comfortably. But I knew I would achieve something if I followed my heart, and gave that all up.

I'm lucky in that the media is much more freelancey. So I didn't have that pressure that lots of people have if you jump off the ladder, then you get left behind.

When I was young, you were told that if you had a skill, you would find a job for life and you could bring up a family on the wage.

My career has mostly been jobs I love or cases where I needed money.

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.

Every job is a blessing. Everyone has to take into account what is available. Are you paying rent, who do you get to work with? There are a lot of variables in the job. What I'm drawn to is things that I don't completely understand maybe, and want to get a better feel for it.