Occupation Quotes - Page 3

• Writing is a solitary occupation.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Writing, Solitary

  "An Interview with Cape Cod Author Bernard Cornwell". Interview with Christopher Seufert, ezinearticles.com. February 27, 2006.

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• You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Ideas, Succeed, Drudgery

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success”, p.282, e-artnow

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• People question me coming through the American frontier these days. They ask, "What's your occupation?" I say, "I'm just a simple gardener." And that is deeply seditious.

  Bill Mollison

  Simple, People, These Days

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me.

  Joe Rogan

  Thinking, People, Worry

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• Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.

  Thomas Nagel

  Life Is, Intense, Human Life

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mortal Questions”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• Layering and changeability: this is the key, the combination that is worked into most of my buildings. Occupying one of these buildings is like sailing a yacht; you modify and manipulate its form and skin according to seasonal conditions and natural elements, and work with these to maximize the performance of the building.

  Glenn Murcutt

  Nature, Keys, Sailing

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• It's the most satisfying occupation man has discovered yet, because you never can quite do it as well as you want to, so there's always something to wake up tomorrow morning to do.

  William Faulkner

  Morning, Writing, Men

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• Let every man of whatsoever craft or occupation he be of... serve his brethren.

  William Tyndale

  Men, Crafts, Brethren

  William Tyndale (1831). “The Works of the English Reformers: William Tyndale and John Frith”, p.138

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• Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more important. Feeling that I was born for the sex opposite mine, I have always loved it and done all that I could to make myself loved by it. I have also been extravagantly fond of good food and irresistibly drawn by anything which could excite curiosity.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Sex, Opposites, Feelings

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• There is no reason why the aeroplane should not open up a fruitful occupation for women.

  Harriet Quimby

  Reason Why, Should, No Reason

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• I dwell in Possibility
  A fairer House than Prose
  More numerous of Windows
  Superior--for Doors
  Of Chambers as the Cedars
  Impregnable of Eye
  And for an Everlasting Roof
  The Gambrels of the Sky
  Of Visitors--the fairest
  For Occupation--This
  The spreading wide my narrow Hands
  To gather Paradise

  Emily Dickinson

  Eye, Doors, Hands

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.222, Harvard University Press

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• If you have any talent, or any occupation that delights you, do it, and do it to the hilt. Don't ask why, or what difficulties you may get into.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Delight, May, Talent

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.317, Princeton University Press

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• Prayer is the most sacred occupation a person could engage in.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Prayer, Sacred, Persons

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• Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Research, Systematic, Artistic

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• The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil "a relish of knowledge" and you put life into his work.

  William Osler

  Knowledge, Giving, Way

  Sir William Osler, Classics of Medicine Library (1985). “The philosophical essays”

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• I think entertainment is a perfectly noble occupation.

  Justin Adams

  Thinking, Noble, Entertainment

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• [Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Thinking, Dinner

  Diary, 8 Mar. 1941.Woolf committed suicide on 28 Mar. 1941.

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• Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is partly because hard work and even the weariness it leaves carry a nobility with them, but also because there is no room in such lives for inferior mental occupation.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Life, Business, Hard Work

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• What do I advise? Forget it all. Don't be afraid. Do what you get the most pleasure from. Is it to build a cloud chamber? Then go on doing things like that. Develop your talents wherever they may lead. Damn the torpedoes - full speed ahead!If you have any talent,or any occupation that delights you,do it, and do it to the hilt

  Richard P. Feynman

  Clouds, Delight, Goes On

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• There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Suffering, Body, Want

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• 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

  Work, Garden, Creeps

  Mirabel Osler (2012). “A Gentle Plea for Chaos”, p.38, A&C Black

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• Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Retirement, Jobs, Hard Work

  Robert A. Heinlein (1988). “To Sail Beyond the Sunset”

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• Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.

  James Boswell

  Art, Drinking, Reality

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.178

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• If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough?

  Roger Ebert

  Enough, Ifs

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.306, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Relinquishment of burdens and fears begins where adoration and worship of God become the occupation of the soul.

  Frances J Roberts

  Soul, Worship, Burden

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