Quotes About Occupation

Tatínek byl už tehdy rybáÃ…â"¢ským funkcionáÃ…â"¢em jako vÄ›tÅ¡ina bývalých pytlák?.

Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it

Pero se van tiñendo con tu amor mis palabras. Todo lo ocupas tú, todo lo ocupas.

To break the worry habit, here is Rule 1: Keep busy. The worried person must lose himself in action, lest he wither in despair.

I was gotten into an employment quite remote to my genius, and directly contrary to the life I delighted in

Step one in the process of increasing your income is to begin wrapping yourself around these two related notions: (1) you are in business, and (2) the occupation of business is moral, noble, and worthy.

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Not to be occupied, and not to exist, amount to the same thing, he said. All people are good except those who are idle.

His only occupation is to contemplate the essence of things; and since he himself is the essence of all things, the form of all forms, his sole employment is the contemplation of himself. 40 Poor Aristotelian God!—

If you do not want to commit suicide always have something to do. -Voltaire

I asked him, What do you do? He smiled patiently, The typical American question. In Europe they would ask, What are you doing? Or, What are you doing now? What do I do? I listen, to the water falling. (No sound of it here but with the wind!) This is my entire occupation.

The executioner proper, the official who would place the nooses around the necks of the condemned, was a practiced hangman, his occupation begun in his youth in Texas, where he apprenticed under the regular hangman.

Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn't have wanted.

Do I look like a metaphysician?" "You look like a guy in an office. What exactly do you do there, Wilf?

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

When Germany defaulted in deliveries of timber, the hardheaded French Premier, who had been the wartime President of France, ordered French troops to occupy the Ruhr. The industrial heart of Germany, which, after the loss of Upper Silesia to Poland, furnished the Reich with four fifths of its coal and steel production, was cut off from the rest of the country.

At two o'clock this afternoon, alarm! The Americans! An American detachment takes over the hotel. We are free!

It is so natural for us to consider our presence as indispensable in the world, so long as we have much to do in it, that the wisdom of retiring wholly from employments in advanced life may be questioned. Certainly, he who does so is in danger of finding, before long, that he has only given up the occupation to which he has been accustomed, for the new business of calculating the period of his decease.

Ciò di cui un clown ha bisogno è tregua, la finzione di ciò che gli altri chiamano tempo libero. Ma questi altri non capiscono che la finzione del tempo libero per un clown consiste appunto nel dimenticare il suo lavoro, e non lo capiscono proprio perché loro si occupano della cosiddetta arte proprio durante il loro tempo libero.

The only thing that disturbs us here in the village is the foreign soldiers. Soldiers, soldiers, soldiers, patrolling. They fight us and they try to tell us, in our own language, that they're freeing us.

Children started to be encouraged to think and go against authority if they didn't agree with what they were being told – this became a priority after the German occupation of Denmark and was something Danes were very conscious of. We wanted citizens who were democratic and could have their own ideas, so self-development is a big part of learning in Denmark.

Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.

Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.