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Letter "O" » occupation
«Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.»
Author: Henry R. Luce
(Editor, Publisher)
| About:
Business,
Foresight,
Future
| Keywords:
business deal, calculation, continual, dealing, exercise, foresight, instinctive, occupation
«Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.»
Author: Jeanette Winterson
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
absurdity, addiction, bank, bank account, bastard, cabinet, cabinets, collecting, cousin, fascination, fascinations, hobbies, obsession, occupation, of sound mind, sister, stamp, trophies, trophy
«Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.»
Author: John Burroughs
(Essayist, Naturalist)
| About:
Work
| Keywords:
affords, congenial, occupation, outlet, outlets
«Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
adult, exhibitionism, masochistic, occupation
«Absence of occupation is not rest; a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.»
«A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.»
«Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.»
«Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.»
Author: Erma Bombeck
| About:
Children
| Keywords:
at work, high-risk, Home Alone, occupation, summer, thirteen
«A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation»
«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.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
accordance, Anything Else, ease, gifts, meddled, meddles, meddling, Natural right, natural rights, occupation, produced, quantity, superior
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