Occupation Quotes - Page 13

• Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?

  Khalil Gibran

  Belief, Action

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The leader of an Earth organization who makes a commitment to history - of humans living on Earth, to begin permanent settlement/occupation of not the moon, but of another planet - this leader will have a legacy for history that will supersede Columbus, Genghis Khan or almost any recognized leader.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Commitment, Moon, Organization

  "Buzz Aldrin Wants To Send People On A One-Way Trip To Mars". Interview with Rebecca Boyle, www.popsci.com. May 7, 2013.

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• What is the problem of women's freedom? It seems to me to be this: how to arrange the world so that women can be human beings, with a chance to exercise their infinitely varied gifts in infinitely varied ways, instead of being destined by the accident of their sex to one field of activity--housework and child-raising. And second, if and when they choose housework and child-raising to have that occupation recognized by the world as work, requiring a definite economic reward and not merely entitling the performer to be dependent on some man.

  Crystal Eastman

  Sex, Children, Exercise

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• [On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.

  Harrison Ford

  Patience, Time, People

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• Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Nursing, Chance, Natural

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• During the years 1945-1965 (I am referring to Europe), there was a certain way of thinking correctly, a certain style of politicaldiscourse, a certain ethics of the intellectual. One had to be on familiar terms with Marx, not let one's dreams stray too far from Freud.... These were therequirements that made the strange occupation of writing and speaking a measure of truth about oneself and one's time acceptable.

  Michel Foucault

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

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• man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  War, Men

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• the sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation, or than the parting from close friends and familiar places. It is also the death of the person one has become in a particular context, and every refugee must be his or her own midwife at the painful process of rebirth.

  Dervla Murphy

  Home, Loss, Flight

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• [Smoking] was a comfort, an occupation, a drug, a casual habit, a distraction, a way to not eat, a way to not pay attention, a way to not feel.

  Margaret Cho

  Smoking, Drug, Comfort

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• I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructer [sic] to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment. If it is a drudgery to teach these little ones, then it is the duty of men to bear a part of that burthen; if it is a privilege and an honor, then we generously invite them to share that honor and privilege with us.

  Angelina Grimke

  Children, Men, Honor

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• A year and a half after the end of the war and the German occupation, Paris was muted and looked bruised and forlorn. Everywhere I went, I sensed the tracks of the wolf that had tried to devour the city. But Paris proved inedible, as it had been ever since its tribal beginnings on an island in the Seine, the Ile de la Cité.

  Paula Fox

  War, Cities, Paris

  Paula Fox (2006). “The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe”, p.33, Macmillan

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• Lack of opportunity breeds dreams of escape. But professionals and managers who have invested in their careers do not leave the work force as frequently as discouraged workers in lower status occupations. Instead, they keep working, but they escape emotionally by defining achievement in professional, not company, terms. ... Thus, the potential for being stuck as career uncertainty grows takes its toll in weakening attachment to any particular employer.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Dream, Opportunity, Attachment

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (2008). “Men and Women of the Corporation: New Edition”, p.328, Hachette UK

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• Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Running, Weed, Animal

  George Stillman Hillard (1853). “Six Months in Italy”, p.138

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• My occupation is syncopation. But, every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to.

  Ringo Starr

  Play, Different, Able

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• Real Jews, in concord with some Muslims, continue their war against Zionists and against Israeli crimes. The oppressed people of Palestine living under occupation must feel that believers of all faiths support them.

  Maurice Motamed

  Real, War, People

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• The most common occupation for women in G rated films is royalty - which is a great gig, if you can get it.

  Geena Davis

  Family, Work, Reality

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• Artists need not meet any standards to practice their craft... Virtually every other occupation requires some sort of license, union membership or something that says you are qualified.

  Mike Svob

  Artist, Practice, Crafts

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• It is to our lack of proper content ("notre manque de contenu propre:;», Fr.), of our inner emptiness that we need occupations and distractions, otherwise ("faute de quoi", Fr.) we experience boredom, which is nothing elses than the feeling of unease that take hold of us when our spirit is not absorbed by the mirages of life.

  African Spir

  Boredom, Feelings, Needs

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• Women, on average, earn less than men in almost every occupation, including traditional female orientated jobs like nursing and teaching.

  Sander Levin

  Jobs, Teaching, Nursing

  "The Fight for Women’s Equality Continues" by Rep. Sandy Levin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2013.

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• If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin.

  Joseph Goebbels

  War, Europe, Iron

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• France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Peace, War, Believe

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• Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Real, Character, Essence

  Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

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• Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a paper or a computer for a couple of years, is a very solitary occupation. You can read sales figures - a hundred thousand books sold, half a million books sold - but they are just numbers.

  Neil Gaiman

  Couple, Book, Writing

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• Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Men, Culture, Coal

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• My first occupation was to map the country.

  John Hanning Speke

  Country, Maps, Firsts

  John Hanning Speke (2015). “Source of the Nile”, p.17, Amberley Publishing Limited

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