Career Quote by Vladimir Lenin

Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford leisure; for…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of other and…

— Paul Morphy

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

I've never been one of those actors who plays chess with his career and goes, 'I'm going to wait now and see what project…

— Mark Strong

In work we act under the predominant motive of external, rational necessities; in pleasure, under the predominant motive of other, equally general necessities of…

— Nikolay Chernyshevsky

Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do? Why, if…

— Orville Dewey