Occupation Quotes

553 Occupation quotes by 438 unique authors

Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation. — John Bunyan
I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable,… — Benjamin Spock
When faced with structural injustice, especially in the form of oppressive military occupations, I have a tendency get a little worked up. So I was… — Adam Beach
After the doctor's departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod. He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of… — Leo Tolstoy
... that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to… — James Clerk Maxwell
What do I advise? Forget it all. Don't be afraid. Do what you get the most pleasure from. Is it to build a cloud chamber?… — Richard P. Feynman
Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment. — Leigh Hunt
Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are always… — Terry Brooks
Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation. — Thomas Jefferson
Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen but society has chosen for us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon." — Harrison Ford
Doin' nothing's a dangerous occupation. — Robert Bolt
There is room for improvement in every life. Regardless of our occupations, regardless of our circumstances, we can improve ourselves and while so doing have… — Gordon B. Hinckley
You can't have occupation and human rights. — Christopher Hitchens
You will learn a lesson repeated through history, that no matter what you think, occupation is not victory! — Immortal Technique
Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk… — Henry David Thoreau
What advice can we give to new mothers? Their children need to work at an interesting occupation: they should not be helped unnecessarily, nor interrupted,… — Maria Montessori
If children are allowed free development and given occupation to correspond with their unfolding minds their natural goodness will shine forth. — Maria Montessori
If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking you may consider yourself a 'suspect' as a potential leader in your… — Napoleon Hill
Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations. — J C Ryle
Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the… — Mahatma Gandhi
Let no one out of laziness or continuous worldly occupations miss these holy Sunday gatherings, which God Himself handed down to us, lest he be… — Gregory Palamas
When we sit down to meditate, we connect with something unconditional - a state of mind, a basic environment that does not grasp or reject… — Pema Chodron
There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their… — Edgar Allan Poe

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