Alphonso Jackson Quotes

Lacking a profit motive, workers in the government by and large have a different work ethic from those in private industry. When they could make one call, federal workers take a meeting. When they could find an answer on the Internet, they form a study committee. Instead of appointing one supervisor, they appoint five.

I have to be where the best work can be done.

Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity.

You have to take a certain pride in your work.

They more than do their work, they take pride in it. Like Cinna.

I've always said that if you can get the best people who are good at what they do, but more importantly are passionate about what they do, you'll succeed.

I have never done anything but my very best work for anyone, and to do this and retain my first fine enthusiasm over a period of thirty years has required a rather special set of working conditions.

If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

When I'm in professional mode, I do the best job that I can.

If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

I had to produce a complete page - or two or three - in one day. I took a lot of pride in my work, and I hated to do a mediocre job. Evidently, some of the writers enjoyed my work best of all for that very reason.

My general feeling about approach to work is that anyone that's there, they're all there to do the best job they can.

To give the best of the day to your work is most important.

I really feel like my goal, and I don't always achieve it, is to do the best work I can do, and stay out of the results. Because ultimately, the result is not what the work is about. There are other people whose jobs are to focus on those results and maximize them, and that's great. Let them do their job.

I do my work to the best of my capacity. I don't pick a role looking at its length. I take up a film because I would like to see it.

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.

There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them.