Career Quote by Derek Haines

“Creativity isn't an occupation, it's a preoccupation.”

— Gordon Torr

When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.

— Viggo Mortensen

The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.

— Bashar al-Assad

Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.

— Holly Johnson

In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

— Voltaire

To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

You do research into specific occupations of the character, with specific behaviorisms that their daily life might give them. You do as much research…

— Guy Burnet

Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.

— Alberto Manguel

Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.…

— Matsuo Basho

One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born. The innkeeper…

— Billy Graham

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

— Cormac McCarthy

My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'

— Philip K. Dick