Occupation Quotes

• 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 work and even the weariness it leaves carry a nobility with them, but also because there is no room in such lives for inferior mental occupation.

  

  Ernest Dimnet
  • Business
  • Culture
  • Quality

• The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Teach
  • Function
  • Develop

• I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

  

  Richard Powers
  • Rewards
  • Pleasures
  • Reinvent

• Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.

  

  James Boswell
  • Reality
  • Drinking
  • Occupation

• There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the members of nearly all other occupations so continuous and so permeating as that of the working housewife and mother.

  

  Eleanor Rathbone
  • Happiness
  • Influence
  • Housewife

• A time for every occupation under heaven. A time for giving birth, a time for dying; a time for planting, a time for uprooting what has been planted; a time for tears, a time for laughter; a time for mourning, a time for dancing; a time for searching, a time for losing; a time for loving, a time for hating.

  

  Ben Sherwood
  • Heaven
  • Tears
  • Birth

• What is it to 'walk in the Spirit'? It is not self-occupation, nor even occupation with the Spirit. Walking according to the Spirit is occupation with the Lord Jesus Christ in glory. If the believer ever looks to the Lord Jesus, depends upon Him, draws all his needs from Him- if He is his All in all- then the believer walks according to the Spirit of Christ.

  

  Arno C. Gaebelein
  • Spirit
  • Christ
  • Occupation

• The underlying problem remains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the continuing Israeli assaults against our people.

  

  Ismail Haniyeh
  • Problem
  • Occupation
  • Assaults

• We have an excellent list of speakers, but the spark will be provided by the crowd to turn talk into action. The Iraq occupation and the government's bumbling effort in New Orleans, has people wanting to act.

  

  Ed Garvey
  • Crowd
  • Speakers
  • Provided

• The artistic path is a fearless occupation.

  

  Alonzo King
  • Path
  • Artistic
  • Occupation

• TV viewing is normally a passive, mindless occupation.

  

  Raymond Arroyo
  • Occupation
  • Passive

• 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. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness-not crimes and scandals.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Mind
  • Fight
  • Police

• The truth is I would do my job for free! I love it every day. If you can possibly choose a vocation that's an avocation, a job that's really a hobby, then you'll be way ahead of the game. You should not pick an occupation because your think your parents want you to do it, or because you think it's the noble thing to do. You should only pick a job because it turns you on.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Jobs
  • Games
  • Noble

• In the end there is a choice. And my choice is to be against the occupation, and not only the occupation but the whole system of discrimination and dispossession.

  

  Amira Hass
  • Choice
  • Discrimination
  • Occupation

• Taking photographs is not something that happens only in a moment I press the button. It is a full-time occupation. For me there is difference between leisure and work.

  

  Edouard Boubat
  • Difference
  • Occupation
  • Photographs

• To endow clock time with numinous meaning is hardly a fit occupation for an intelligent person.

  

  Alan McGlashan
  • Person
  • Clock
  • Occupation

• The end of foreign occupation is one of the pre-requisites if we are to witness any progress in our efforts to help Iraq go forward.

  

  Amr Moussa
  • Progress
  • Iraq
  • Occupation

• For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Occupation
  • Missions
  • Deuces

• 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 who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Music
  • Harmony
  • Give Us

• The resettlement of populations scattered by war and by enemy occupation is one of the problems with which Europe will be most urgently faced when the occupied countries are set free. Since hostilities began, millions of people have left homes destroyed or threatened with destruction; millions more have been transplanted, deported, or expelled to make room for foreign newcomers who have taken over their property; millions of others again have been taken prisoner or individually recruited as workers and sent away from their countries to serve the occupying power.

  

  Eugene M. Kulischer
  • Enemy
  • Problems
  • Destroyed

• Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative.

  

  Eliot Wigginton
  • Teaching
  • Negative
  • Occupation

• The occupation is a source of violence that has to stop.

  

  Hanan Ashrawi
  • Violence
  • Occupation

• Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Waiting
  • Terrible
  • Occupation

• Man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war.

  

  Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
  • War
  • Occupation

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