Occupation Quotes

553 Occupation quotes by 438 unique authors

To endow clock time with numinous meaning [is] hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person. — Alan McGlashan
Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This… — Ahmed Ben Bella
More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of digital literacy with… — Michael K. Powell
We need to make a distinction between misled Iraqis, those who believe that they are carrying weapons to liberate Iraq from what they call occupation,… — Jalal Talabani
It's the most satisfying occupation man has discovered yet, because you never can quite do it as well as you want to, so there's always… — William Faulkner
My colleagues and I are of that generation of young men who went through the Second World War and the Japanese Occupation and emerged determined… — Lee Kuan Yew
I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning… — Lee Kuan Yew
The mercy caravans are through there the medicine refugees flowing out. It makes the United States look very bad here. And much more like an… — Jon Lee Anderson
As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it is their chief… — Alexander Borodin
Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language, making the creative… — Hilma Wolitzer
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher. — Simon Newcomb
Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation. — Susan Orlean
It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once… — Anne Tyler
No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still chained to a… — John Stuart Mill
Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly. — P T Barnum
Nursing has made great progress from being an occupation to becoming a profession in the 20th. Century. As the 21st. Century approaches, further progress will… — Unknown Author
Let thine occupations be few, saith the sage, if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life. — Marcus Aurelius
Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is partly because hard… — Ernest Dimnet
The aim was simple: to deprive Karpov of his favourite occupation - standing at the board, staring straight at his opponent. While I was wearing… — Viktor Korchnoi
When you achieve one dream, dream another. Getting what you want is only a problem if you have nowhere to go next. Dreaming is a… — Rudy Ruettiger
Conscious means "having an awareness of one's inner and outer worlds; mentally perceptive, awake, mindful." So "conscious business" might mean, engaging in an occupation, work,… — Ken Wilber
When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that 'he hadn't come… — Seneca the Younger
Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those… — Thomas Carlyle
The great strength of our Order lies in its concealment; let it never appear in any place in its own name but always covered by… — Adam Weishaupt
Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and… — Naz?m Hikmet

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