Occupation Quotes
43 quotes
"If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus."
"The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced."
"There wasn’t a question of what compromise there should be or what kind of peace process we should engage in. There was only one discussion: How do we remove the colonial power that is occupying ourcountry?"
"I always have believed that we should not call it an Arab-Israeli issue or a Palestinian-Arab dispute or a peace negotiation. I think we should call it what it is: an occupation of Palestine, full stop. This is not a popular position in mixed company."
"Writer: It's not an occupation it's a compulsion."
"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."
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
"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."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"... if one hasn't been through, as our people mercifully did not go through, the horrors of an occupation by a foreign power, you have no right to pronounce upon what a country does, which has been through all that."
"His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political."
"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."
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
"Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics."
"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."
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"DIGNITY OF LABOR indicates that all types of jobs are respected equally, and no occupation is considered superior. 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."
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"A heart favours love, a head favours work, a heart and head both favours hobby."
"Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt; the comedian draws the laughter. Monetary income is the perfect deceiver of a man's true worth."
"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."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man."
Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
"In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another."
Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
"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.!"
"It is a harsh reality that some of the most important and respectable jobs which deserve high salaries might be better off with low salaries. A politician, or a minister, or a teacher is sure to be working sincerely and selflessly for the good of the people when through and through there is little monetary reward guaranteed. This is how the charlatans are weeded out of the field."
"The density of your destiny is the product of the mass of your visions and the volume your impacts occupy!"
"If you will look about you (which most people won't do)," says Sergeant Cuff, "you will see that the nature of a man's tastes is, most times, as opposite as possible to the nature of a man's business."
"We all have our unique careers that differ from one another, but the fact is that we must become "teachers and learners" at the end of it all! By the "learning career", we know what other people know; by the "teaching career", we make other people to know what we know!"
"Join the Rienish navy. See unusual sights. Never sleep with the lights out again."
"The way the early Protestants taught on the other hand is that everybody is a full time minister in their various places of work. They went to the extent of saying, your job, profession, occupation is your calling"
"You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally."
"You express yourself through written words. You’re a writer."
"When people say they're unemployed, bored, or have nothing to do, I sigh and think, "If only time were transferable."
"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."
"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."
"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."
Natalya Vorobyova, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
"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."
Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
"In the search for happiness, However, We r all equal; None of us is Happy - Not the Banker/Actors/Actresses/Politician/Housewife/Model/Doctor and so on."
"Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What price does my soul pay?"
"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."
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"More than that, in the five hundred years of European OCCUPATION, Native cultures have already driven themselves to be remarkably tenacious and resilient."
"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."