Occupation Quotes

I would have any one, who really and truly has leisure and ability, make verses. I think it a more refining and happy-making occupation than any other pastime accomplishment.

My chosen occupation isn’t necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.

History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government.

At its essence, the message of the Occupations is simply this: ‘Here in the face of power we will sit and create a new society, in which you do count.’

Most Iraqis, even if they hated Saddam and suffered, say life was much better under him than it was under the occupation and what's going on today.

Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.

My occupation has been a great deal with David Foster Wallace, and he didn't manage it, and he was very much looking for something that isn't totally selfish, and finding meaning. It's a struggle.

Most people perceive their occupation as being a detriment to their overall wellbeing.

Violence [in Palestina] is part of the resistance to occupation. The basic fact is not the violence; the basic fact is the occupation.

In order to put an end to the occupation, you must make peace between the Israeli and Palestinian people. This is the real aim, this is the real task.

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

It's almost a standard tactic, really, to try to minimize any effort that people in the entertainment business or in any public occupation make to express themselves.

[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.

Absence of occupation is not rest.

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 something to wake up tomorrow morning to do.

When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists, it must be by employing them in their legitimate occupation.

Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.

Now as to the behavior of the soldiers: occupations always corrupt the occupiers.

Though one’s occupation for his or her livelihood involves physical work or menial labor, it is held that the job carries dignity, compared to the jobs that involve more intellect than body.

Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle down for survival.

Don’t only think of which job to get and live on. Think about which problem to solve and the jobs will keep suggesting themselves.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness whether it be to make baskets or broadswords or canals or statues or songs.

...we're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell.

Writer: It's not an occupation it's a compulsion.

You have to write down what you really want to do in this life and then you have to write down what you have to do every day to achieve the goal

If you can devote yourself to your favorite occupation without getting money for it, but in order to discover your potential, then you will find out who you are

Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.

A heart favours love, a head favours work, a heart and head both favours hobby.

In the future, each of us must have the courage to follow our gift or to be engaged in a favorite occupation, even if it does not bring you any income at the moment

Colonialism is the mother of terrorism.

In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.

In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.

If you are looking for a job that may make you sick, I can recommend working at a high powered solar photovoltaic (PV) utility power plant.

Your present interests are not a solid basis of a career decisions. So, stop following your passion and Do What Is Valuable.!

The density of your destiny is the product of the mass of your visions and the volume your impacts occupy!

Join the Rienish navy. See unusual sights. Never sleep with the lights out again.

You express yourself through written words. You’re a writer.

I take it that he is more than just a woodcutter.”“No one is just a woodcutter, ” replied Terence.“A person's always more than his present occupation.

On the stand, I asked the witness, “What's your occupation?”“Make-up artist.”“Objection!” I replied, “Lack of foundation.

Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another.

Quitting a job can be like an exorcism where you cast out a demon. The demon is the foreign spirit who occupies you through your occupation.

No occupation is considered superior since everyone is doing his best where he is.

Though one’s occupation for his or her livelihood involves physical work or menial labour, it is held that the job carries dignity, compared to the jobs that involve more intellect than body.

When people say they're unemployed, bored, or have nothing to do, I sigh and think, "If only time were transferable.

More than that, in the five hundred years of European OCCUPATION, Native cultures have already driven themselves to be remarkably tenacious and resilient.

The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now if I were a grave-digger or even a hangman there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.