Occupation Quotes

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If your creativity comes out of your silence, out of your Zen, out of your meditations, then it is authentic, original. If it comes only… — Rajneesh
All our life is like a day of celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always everywhere. We work while singing,… — Clement of Alexandria
Learn, earn, return - these are the 3 phases of life. Jack Balousek There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist… — Alan Loy McGinnis
Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work. — Nancy Chodorow
The individual who is best prepared for any occupation is the one able to adapt himself to any situation. — John Mortimer Smith
At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind.… — Soren Kierkegaard
No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we… — Maximilian Kolbe
Publishing is the only industry I can think of where most of the employees spend most of their time stating with great self-assurance that they… — Donald E. Westlake
Of the tyrant, spies and informers are the principal instruments. War is his favorite occupation, for the sake of engrossing the attention of the people,… — Aristotle
Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life. — Gregory Mcdonald
Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language. — Hilma Wolitzer
The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It… — H.G. Wells
Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation. — Vladimir Lenin
Your income is a direct reward for the quality and quantity of the services you render to your world. Whatever field you are in, if… — Brian Tracy
Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy. — H. L. Mencken
Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes; it does so… — John Stuart Mill
I am suggesting that there is, and always has been, a rather high correlation between ethnicity and occupation/economic role throughout the various time-space zones of… — Immanuel Wallerstein
We live our lives by philosophies, amid worldly affairs and occupations that totally absorb us and are a great distance from the manger. In all… — Pope Benedict XVI
The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death.… — H. L. Mencken

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