Quotes About Occupation

La ocupación sin pausa era una especie de terapia. La servicialidad agresiva disimulaba el hecho de que, en algún sentido importante, era de poca utilidad.

The constant variety is the most interesting part of my job.

We need to divorce ourselves from venture capital as an occupation and focus on using capital as a way to take really big bets on things that just seem totally audacious.

When Sartre wrote "Paris Under the Occupation," the dead were still being mourned while the fate of prisoners of war and the deported remained unknown. Shortages of food and raw materials, a crippled transportation system, rampant inflation, and a thriving black market were sources of great unrest. Months before the Liberation, the settling of scores had begun.

home arts and folk arts revealed more about a culture than the isolated, esoteric pieces preserved in museums for the benefit of the elite. She was sick and tired of having her work dismissed as frivolous because it centered on a largely female occupation. If most quilts had been made by men, no one would question her interest in exploring the role of quiltmaking in American history.

Mr. Kapasi had never thought of his job in such complimentary terms. To him it was a thankless occupation. He found nothing noble in interpreting people's maladies

On Sundays he spends an hour occupied with his tins of shoe polishes and his three pairs of shoes, two black and one brown. The brown ones are the ones he'd been wearing when he'd first come to see her.

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.

When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.

Not indolence but congenial work is man's Divinely allotted portion.

Work certainly does help fill a void.

Some people come to work and that's exactly what it is - work.

Honestly, all I ever do is work.

After college, rather than pursue real work, I joined a folk group and sang in coffee houses and nightclubs, an occupation that does little for the intellect and even less for the complexion.

I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.

One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

Work is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion. . . . As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover without work.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

I'd rather work than not.

When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists, it must be by employing them in their legitimate occupation.

How is it that you live, and what is it you do?

Occupy the earth with the multiplication of yourself

The purpose of a profession is to fulfil the personal wishes of a prospect.

Having a job is being busy