Occupation Quotes - Page 7

I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation.

Of 472 civilian occupations defined by the Department of Commerce, only six are majority immigrant (legal and illegal). These six occupations account for 1 percent of the total U.S. workforce. Many jobs often thought to be overwhelmingly done by immigrants are in fact majority native-born: 51 percent of maids are U.S.-born, as are 63 percent of butchers and meat processors, and 73 percent of janitors.

I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible.

Clarity is the preoccupation of the effective leader. If you do nothing else as a leader, be clear.

I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.

Our trip to Moscow opens new prospects for peace in the Middle East. Our people want simple things: to be free and to have sovereignty. All this is impossible without an end to the occupation.

There can be no peace if the occupation continues.

Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.

There is no way forward without ending the occupation.

Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming.

In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.

Increased coalition presence feeds the notion of occupation. It contributes to the dependency of Iraqi security forces on the coalition, ... It extends the amount of time that it will take for Iraqi security forces to become self-reliant. And it exposes more coalition forces to attacks.

Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

Another occupation might have been better.

The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations for those who do not flee from the thought of death into triviality.

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.

Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.

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.

Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.