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I am an industry. By Thalia Industry

Absence of occupation is not rest. By William Cowper Absence Rest Occupation

No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusionsabout himself. The distaste, the absence of glamour, extend from the occupation to the personality. It is only when ourappointed activities seem by a lucky accident to obey the particular earnestness of our temperament that we can taste the comfort of complete self-deception. By Joseph Conrad Man Engaged Work Preserve Saving

Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness. By Galen Employment Physician Happiness Nature Essential

Writing that's not working for a living. By Robert Asprin Writing Living Working

When occupations come to us we must accept them; when things come to us we must understand them from the ground up. By Lu Yen-Hsun Occupations Accept Things Understand Ground

You handle animals. You deal with people. By Red Auerbach Animals Handle People Deal

Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver. By Jonathan Sacks Occupation Years Ago Study Discover

Nurses nurseand teachers teachand tailors mendand preachers preachand barbers trimand chauffeurs hauland parents get to do it all. By Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz Nurses Nurseand Teachers Teachand Tailors

SALES SPECIALIST. CAN EAT BITTERNESS AND ENDURE HARDSHIP. By Leslie T. Chang Sales Specialist Hardship Eat Bitterness

Most people perceive their occupation as being a detriment to their overall wellbeing. By Tom Rath Wellbeing People Perceive Occupation Detriment

In the west, jobs have become part of an assumed right to self-actualisation. By this creed, a job is part of who we are and we are entitled not simply to a salary but also to satisfaction. By Financial Times West Selfactualisation Part Assumed Creed

My art and profession is to live. By Michel De Montaigne Live Art Profession

Business or profession?''I guess you'd call me a writer.'No profession,' said the police car, as if talking to itself. The light held him fixed, like a museum specimen, needle thrust through chest. By Ray Bradbury Profession Business Writer Car Guess

Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all. By Anna Brownell Jameson Work Form Appointed Lot

Employment stereotypes you By Sunday Adelaja Employment Stereotypes

Working with civilians, like this was that TV show about the wizard with the talking skull and the twatty name. By Caitlin Kittredge Working Civilians Show Wizard Talking

I very often get that question: 'What is your real profession?' That's because in Sweden, it is 'not allowed' to have more than one profession - there's something suspicious about it! But nowadays it's more accepted that one can do a lot of things. By Erland Josephson Profession Question Sweden Real Allowed

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. By William James Knowledge Thing Effective Life Occupation

A simple job for simple people. By Curly Howard People Simple Job

I went through a lot of occupations. I was questioning my contribution to the world. By Cory Michael Smith Occupations Lot World Questioning Contribution

Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen,Delightful industry enjoy'd at home,An Nature, in her cultivated trimDress'ed to his taste, inviting him abroad -Can he want occupation who has these? By William Cowper Friends Books Nature Garden Taste

What did you work at?" Colum asked, shifting a bit on the bench to look more directly at me."I was in service," I said quietly, more quietly than I intended. I wondered if maybe the answer had gotten lost in the rumble of the engines. It didn't."Honest work," Colum said. I knew that that was what people say about work they consider beneath them. Hauling and scrubbing and digging are "honest work." Grubbing and mucking? "Honest work." Tell someone you're a doctor or a mill owner, and they never say "honest work. By Susan Lynn Peterson Honest Work Colum Quietly Asked

Im my profession you have to mystify the enemy. By Bernard Law Montgomery Enemy Profession Mystify

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind. By Richard Powers Librarian Occupation Service Gas Mind

People need to know what their jobs are. By W. Edwards Deming People Jobs

Although my law practice pays my hotel bill, I consider it no more my career than a hundred other things: sailing, drinking, walking the streets, writing my 'Inquirey', starting at walls hunting ducks and 'coons,reading, playing politics, and whatnot. I'm interested in any number of things, and enthusiastic about nothing. By John Barth Inquirey Sailing Drinking Coonsreading Things

My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems. By Akio Morita Systems Chief Job Constantly Stir

Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years, but if someone asked my occupation, I'd say writer, even if I'd never sold a word. Writers write. Other people talk. By W.p. Kinsella Design Born Accident People Writers

Many people know they're working, but not what they're working. By Ljupka Cvetanova Working People

Are you busy?" the caller would ask. "Yes I'm working." Sitting in my chair, cats nearby, I was reading a great book. That was my job this year, and it was a good one. The salary was nonexistent, but the satisfaction was daily and deep. By Nina Sankovitch Busy Caller Working Sitting Chair

My job gives me the attention I'd otherwise crave. By Jennifer Saunders Crave Job Attention

First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations. By Paul Klee Profession Illustrations Living Poetry Philosophy

Being a child is in itself a profession. By Clifton Fadiman Profession Child

Don't ask me about my career - I've forgotten most of it. By Timothy Dalton Career Forgotten

My profession is its own reward By Arthur Conan Doyle Reward Profession

You have no idea how engrossing such a profession may become. Just as the blacksmith says: 'By hammer and hand all Art doth stand,' just as the baker thinks that all the solar system revolves around his morning delivery of rolls, as the postmaster-general believes that he alone is the preserver of society - and surely, surely, these delusions are necessary to keep us going. By Ford Madox Ford Surely Idea Engrossing Profession Art

Every occupation has its own honor before God. Ordinary work is a divine vocation or calling. In our daily work no matter how important or mundane we serve God by serving the neighbor and we also participate in God's on-going providence for the human race. By Martin Luther God Occupation Honor Work Ordinary

My career is media. One can turn on the TV or look at a magazine and see me. By Leryn Franco Media Career Turn Magazine

As an actor, the training I received was that I walk through the world as an observer of life and of people. My job is to actually be looking out all the time and watching people. By David Schwimmer People Actor Training Received Walk

I often think about the class differences involved in "jobs" vs. "careers." By Bill Walsh Jobs Careers Class Differences Involved

Few people ever have an abundance of choice of occupation. But what matters is that we have some choice, that we are not absolutely tied to a job which has been chosen for us, and that if one position becomes intolerable, or if we set our heart on another, there is always a way for the able, at some sacrifice, to achieve his goal. Nothing makes conditions more unbearable than the knowledge that no effort of ours can change them; and even if we should never have the strength of mind to make the necessary sacrifice, the knowledge that we could escape if we only strove hard enough makes many otherwise intolerable positions bearable. By Friedrich Hayek Occupation Choice Sacrifice People Abundance

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven. By Frederick William Robertson Heaven Humblest Occupation Materials Discipline

Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away. By William Lucking Acting Profession Sicken Waste

Painting it's a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels. By Pablo Picasso Profession Painting Blind Man Painter

My profession is called record production. By Tony Visconti Production Profession Called Record

I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human. By Zeresenay Alemseged Paleoanthropologist Human Job Define Man

whatever your occupation, you can maneuver within your job description - adding, delegating, and customizing what you do to match your interests and values. By Angela Duckworth Adding Delegating Occupation Description Maneuver

Your calling is you unique area of expertise By Sunday Adelaja Expertise Calling Unique Area

Oh, my career. What career? I'm over 40. By Melanie Griffith Career

You are in the business of serving other people as you stand in the service of your destiny and express yourself through your work. By Michael Port Work Business Serving People Stand

A job is death without dignity. By Frank Mccourt Dignity Job Death

Don't differentiate between 'This is a job' and 'This is what I'm doing for fun.' It's all simultaneous. By Spike Jonze Job Fun Differentiate Simultaneous

My job is to teach someone something they never knew, but it should not be like you're in a prisoner-of-war camp. I'm supposed to be teaching you but also entertaining you. You're giving me an hour of your time. It should be lively. We're on a hunt, it's a mystery, and it's amazing. By Bonnie Bassler Camp Knew Job Teach Supposed

The two oldest professions in the world - ruined by amateurs. By Alexander Woollcott World Ruined Amateurs Oldest Professions

An occupation that has no basis in sex-determined gifts can now recruit its ranks from twice as many potential artists. By Margaret Mead Artists Occupation Basis Sexdetermined Gifts

The frivolous work of polished idleness. By James Mackintosh Idleness Frivolous Work Polished

So many careers came and went through me:salamander finder, crawfish annoyer, flat-stone creek skipper, cedar chest smeller, railroad car counter, tin can stomper, milkweed blower, mulberry picker, snowball smoother, paper bag popper, steel rail walker, box turtle toucher, dark-sky watcher, best part saver. They didn't last long, these careers of mine, but flashed into and out of existence like mayflies. But while they employed me, I gave them an honest minute's work and was paid in the satisfactions of curiosity met and a job well done. By Jerry Spinelli Salamander Finder Crawfish Annoyer Flatstone

Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing. By Evan Esar Play Work Enjoy

I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession. By Karen Allen Profession Necessarily Defined

I class myself as a manual laborer. By Theodore White Laborer Class Manual

Your identity should not be fully defined by what you do, by being a manager, a wife, a mother of children or a computer programmer By Sunday Adelaja Manager Wife Programmer Identity Fully

Our specific profession serves a sacred purpose. By Lailah Gifty Akita Purpose Specific Profession Serves Sacred

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to. By Richard Ford Job Empathy Curiosity Things Person

I'm a job creator. By Steve Wynn Creator Job

One should not be assigned one's identity in society by the job slot one happens to fill. If we truly believe in the dignity of labor, any task can be performed with equal pride because none can demean the basic dignity of a human being. By Judith Martin Fill Assigned Identity Society Job

I am a doctor - it's a profession that may be considered a special mission, a devotion. It calls for involvement, respect and willingness to help all other people. By Ewa Kopacz Doctor Mission Devotion Profession Considered

But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on to ask me what I write, and to answer "poetry" would embarrass us both, for we both know that nobody can earn a living simply by writing poetry. By W. H. Auden Writer Answer Poetry Occupation Write

I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise. By Michael K. Williams Ostricise Job Engage Empathy Compassion

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible. By Cesare Pavese Waiting Occupation Terrible Wait

Gone are the days when a person studied for one trade or career and maintained that occupation for the rest of her life. Nowadays, an educated individual with creativity, resilience, and flexibility can look forward to an evolutionary career, where job opportunities and experience can lead you down exciting (and sometimes meandering) paths to a future you likely never even considered or, dare we say, dreamed possible. By Laura J. Mcdonald Life Career Days Person Studied

What is your one-sentence job description? By Andy Stanley Description Onesentence Job

I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex. By Bruce Sterling Complex Entertainer Militaryentertainment

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling. By Vincent Van Gogh Profession Paycheck Calling Brings Home

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence. By James Bryce Medicine Existence Profession Labors Incessantly

Sloth may disguise itself as "conscientious work" and meet with various forms of public approval or success. But work that is not motivated by love for the life of the community, beyond the temporal and spatial confines of one's own small life, cannot free either worker or community from profound anxiety. By Ellen F. Davis Sloth Conscientious Success Work Disguise

My aunt made me an offer I had to refuse," said Jared. He looked forbidding.Kami knew that expression, and remembered the feeling that used to go with it: he was unhappy. "So you ran away from home," she said. "To become a tavern wench.""I'm not a tavern wench," said Jared. "That's not a job." His voice was slightly less stern than before, as if he was taken aback."It sounds like you're a tavern wench," Kami told him. "Fleeing persecution, you have to take up a menial occupation to keep your body and soul together. But at least its honest work, though as you labor, many predatory customers make advances and offer indignities.""One can only hope," Jared responded. By Sarah Rees Brennan Jared Tavern Refuse Wench Aunt

In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then, he writes; and if he doesn't feel the urgent need of writing, there are dozens of professions in which it is easier to earn a comfortable living. By Malcolm Cowley Writing Painting Living Write Writes

It's a full time job with a part-time companion. By Sylvia Day Companion Full Time Job Parttime

a history teacher. I work, By Danielle Monsch Teacher History Work

A career is a job that has gone on too long. By Jeff Macnelly Long Career Job

Work done by human beings for human beings. By William Lethaby Human Work

Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for. By Gerald Brenan Writer Artist World People Professions

To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much more of my time than I like. Meanwhile I hope that the second time this expenditure of time will be much less, otherwise I would never be able to reconcile myself to it, even practical (astronomical) work must give far more satisfaction than if one brings up to B a couple more mediocre heads which otherwise would have stopped at A. By Carl Friedrich Gauss Time Distracting Occupations Belong Lecture

In a sense, people are our proper occupation. Our job is to do them good and put up with them. By Marcus Aurelius Sense People Occupation Proper Job

The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die. By Candace Cameron Bure Die Cool Thing Profession Day

Job's comforting By Anonymous Job Comforting

There is no easy formula for determining right and wrong livelihood, but it is essential to keep the question alive. To return the sense of dignity and honor to manhood, we have to stop pretending that we can make a living at something that is trivial or destructive and still have sense of legitimate self-worth. A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls. By Sam Keen Livelihood Alive Easy Formula Determining

Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality. By Elizabeth Mccracken Stewardess Certified Accountant Public Car

I must like my profession, since I can hardly distinguish myself from it. By Mason Cooley Profession Distinguish

With a thousand joys I would accept a nonacademic job for which industriousness, accuracy, loyalty, and such are sufficient without specialized knowledge, and which would give a comfortable living and sufficient leisure, in order to sacrifice to my gods [mathematical research]. For example, I hope to get the editting of the census, the birth and death lists in local districts, not as a job, but for my pleasure and satisfaction ... By Carl Friedrich Gauss Sufficient Accuracy Loyalty Industriousness Knowledge

I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment. By Oscar Levant Pianist Moment Concert Pretentious Unemployed

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. By William Faulkner Satisfying Occupation Man Discovered Wake

What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor? By Marcus Tullius Cicero Labor Illustrious Attended

The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one's country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession. By Primo Levi Country Case Profession Complex Ambivalent

It's not what you do but that kind of job you do that makes the difference. By Ben Carson Difference Kind Job Makes

General consultant to mankind. By George Bernard Shaw General Mankind Consultant

Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter. By Horace Mann Women Occupation Bane Men

I consider myself a laborer, building my career brick over brick under the sun. By Shakira Laborer Building Sun Brick Career

The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroker's shop, and my mother was a waitress, I moved into a middle-class world with a level of security they never knew. By Norman Foster Bluecollar Knew Honourable Work Parents