Johann Lamont Quotes

I'm a hard worker and love my work. I have felt pulled toward work. And it's a pull I have ferociously had to counter to make room for my family.

I love my work, I love the people I work with, I do the best I can.

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of - I wouldn't call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

A man's prime interest in life must be his work.

As far as career goes, make sure you're in it for the right reasons - and make sure that the work itself is the most important thing.

The best part of my life is I've been hired to work for the people of the state of Maine, and I'm very humble and very proud.

I wish Americans thought more like Europeans when it comes to money and work. They take time off, they do what they love. We think work is the most valued commodity. Really the most valued commodity is time.

I don't want to spend my life doing jobs that I don't care about.

I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Whether you're an obstetrician or a third-grade teacher or a real estate agent, you know when you're doing good work. You're passionate about it.

I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life.

I read a quote by James Dean when I was 17; he said, 'I'd rather starve than do a whole bunch of work that I don't care about.' The older I got, the more I understood what he was saying. If I want to do a whole lot of work that I don't care about, then I would probably be working in a law office somewhere.

My work is a love for me; I'd do it for free, but don't tell my bosses.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.

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.

My main priority in any job is when is the soonest I can get back to the three people I love most in the world.

That's part of the reason Rex drafted me, because I value this job. It's my life. If somebody wanted to take that away from me, it's personal.

Being a professional woman, I function the best when I don't distinguish between work and play.

I just love to work and spend time with my family. And that's the reason I don't look at the length of the role, but what it has to offer me.

I love my work - it's what I know how to do best.

My philosophy is if you're going to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for not a whole lot of money, why work for someone you're not gonna be loyal to?

I've been pretty focused my entire life, and now that I have a family, I'm just going to keep that focus, but it's going to be a family focus.