Occupation Quotes - Page 5

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one.

The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.

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

Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.

If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.

Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960.

Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is life itself.

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

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling.

Beware of a misfit occupation. . . . Consider carefully your natural bent, whether for business or a profession.

To snatch the passing moment and examine it for signs of eternity is the noblest of occupations.

I want to tell the United States, the international community and all those who speak about peace that... the shortest way for this is that they should work for halting the Israeli aggression and occupation of the Palestinian territories.

So-called psychoanalysis is the occupation of lustful rationalists who trace everything in the world to sexual causes--with the exception of their occupation.

My first occupation was to map the country.

There are several more careers more engaging to follow than that of poetry. But the circumstances of one's birth, the conduct of one's parents, the current economic structure of society, and a thousand other local factors have as much or more to say about successions to such occupations, the naive volitions of the poet to the contrary.

Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.

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.

LIFE: My favorite occupation.

The main Objective of any operation in an open file is the eventual Occupation of the seventh or eighth Rank.

Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.

I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking.

Jews and Muslims 'dialoguing' has nothing to do with Palestine. The problem is settler colonialism, apartheid and occupation, not religion.