Quotes About Occupation

Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

Cooking is the best occupational therapy for me. And when I cook, everybody comes to eat. It's the greatest thing.

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.

The only one who thinks the world is safer since the occupation of Iraq is Bush.

If I keep God first in my life, if I keep my family and friends as second, and then I keep my occupation third, that's when I've found success.

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

The continuity between invading and occupying sovereign Indigenous nations in order to achieve continental control in North America and employing the same tactics overseas to achieve global control is key to understanding the future of the United States in the world.

histories. Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) historian Jean O'Brien names this practice of writing Indians out of existence "firsting and lasting." All over the continent, local histories, monuments, and signage narrate the story of first settlement: the founder(s), the first school, first dwelling, first everything, as if there had never been occupants who thrived in those places before Euro-Americans.

Five hours sleepeth a traveller, seven a scholar, eight a merchant, and eleven every knave.' So

devote what time I may still have to live to no other occupation than that of endeavoring to acquire some knowledge of Nature, which shall be of such a kind as to enable us there from to deduce rules in medicine of greater certainty than those in present use.

I believe it doesn't matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you are living your meaningless life.

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

Ya?amak ve yeryüzünde üç ad?ml?k bir yer i?gal etmekle mühim bir i? yapt?klar?n? zannederler.

Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself.

In a sense, people are our proper occupation

every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself. In

So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

He has to find more and better ways of occupying his time. His time, what a bankrupt idea, as if he's been given a box of time belonging to him alone, stuffed to the brim with hours and minutes that he can spend like money. Trouble is, the box has holes in it and the time is running out, no matter what he does with it.

It's always an advantage to have something to do with your hands. That way, if someone makes an inappropriate remark, you can pretend you haven't heard it. Then you don't have to answer.

Lose no time; be always employed in something useful.

My occupation is an open question. I was once an assistant professor of mathematics. Since then, I have spent time living in the woods of Montana.

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

I am not alone, you see;—and those whose time is fully occupied seldom complain of solitude.