Occupation Quotes & Sayings

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~ Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart. ~

Karel Čapek

~ There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling. ~

Mirabel Osler

~ Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart ~

Karel

~ Beware of a misfit occupation. . . . Consider carefully your natural bent, whether for business or a profession. ~

Marshall Field

~ Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none. ~

Jules Renard

~ When occupations come to us we must accept them; when things come to us we must understand them from the ground up. ~

Lu Yen

~ Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving. ~

Mahatma Gandhi

~ A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. ~

Eric Hoffer

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

Henry R. Luce

~ There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility ~

Barrie Sir James M

~ Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart. ~

Karel Capek

~ No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden ~

Thomas Jefferson

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

Henry R. Luce

~ It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness. ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife ~

Queen Victoria

~ Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it. ~

Martha Gellhorn

~ The sole pre-occupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization. ~

Jules Verne

~ I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns. ~

Jules Massenet

~ All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. ~

Plato

~ There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling. ~

Mirabel Osler

~ Absence of occupation is not rest; / A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd. ~

William Cowper

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

Henry R. Luce

~ Agriculture, for an honorable and high-minded man," says Xenophon, "is the best of all occupations and arts by which men procure the means of living. ~

Amos Bronson Alcott

~ Agriculture for an honorable and highminded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living. ~

Xenophon

~ Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. ~

Jessamyn West

~ Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach. ~

Peter F. Drucker

~ It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations --past and present --are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia. ~

Eric Hoffer

Karl Kraus

~ Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy. ~

H. L. Mencken

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