Occupation Quotes - Page 11

Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.

I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked me when I was 14 what I wanted to be: "Activist, first, is my occupation. I am an activist."

It's priceless what you learn when you actually do. It's like going to film school times eleven. The best education is effectively to be functioning in the occupation that you want to take on.

The invasion and occupation of Iraq is illegal.

Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?

We have agreed that peace can be achieved with the removal of the occupation and the end of aggression.

Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction.

One of my favorite occupations is making radio/video edits. I love singles.

I think entertainment is a perfectly noble occupation.

I don't care about fashion at all. And I know it's kind of a dodgy thing to be a fashion photographer, a kind of pathetic occupation, but I like it, even though I question it.

Writing is a solitary occupation, and we like it that way.

You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakable.

The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.

Just as the senses require sensible objects to stimulate them, so our powers of observation, recollection, and imagination do not work spontaneously, but are set in motion by the demands set up by current social occupations.

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around.

Proving that profit is economically and morally justifiable, rather than the result of exploitation, has been a central preoccupation of neoclassical economists.

It's really, really, really difficult to have the same occupation as the person you're with - especially when you're both actors.

The invasion only made matters worse. The occupation will not work, Iraq is unoccupiable, that will not work.

The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.

The occupation of the stock-jobber yields no new or useful product; consequently having no product of his own to give in exchange, he has no revenue to subsist upon, but what he contrives to make out of the unskilfulness or ill-fortune of gamesters like himself.

Arnold Schwarzenegger made his tax returns public, [and] now there's a problem about him stretching the truth. Apparently under occupation he put down 'actor.'

Your preoccupation should be on doing what you do as well as you can.

Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Barontage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; . . .

One of the principal occupations of man is to divine woman.