occupation

A heart favours love, a head favours work, a heart and head both favours hobby.

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.

Don__ only think of which job to get and live on. Think about which problem to solve and the jobs will keep suggesting themselves.

His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.

... if one hasn't been through, as our people mercifully did not go through, the horrors of an occupation by a foreign power, you have no right to pronounce upon what a country does, which has been through all that.

Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.

If you can devote yourself to your favorite occupation without getting money for it, but in order to discover your potential, then you will find out who you are

You have to write down what you really want to do in this life and then you have to write down what you have to do every day to achieve the goal

Villainessa Tittel was a hired killer, an assassin by trade. She had enjoyed the best education and had been trained by assassins who had (until then at least) been considered the best in the business. She had turned to __leaning_ as an occupation because she really enjoyed endings more than beginnings _ and anyway, she didn__ need to know her mark__ entire pedigree or life__ story, or to have some kind of facetious moral justification just to collect her fee. Unsurprisingly, when she did read _ on those rare occasions _ her books were always dog-eared from the back.

Education is not merely meant for you to write and pass exams, get a good job and a good spouse, and settle down for survival.

Writer: It's not an occupation it's a compulsion.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves by way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto.

The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now if I were a grave-digger or even a hangman there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness whether it be to make baskets or broadswords or canals or statues or songs.

If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.

More than that, in the five hundred years of European OCCUPATION, Native cultures have already driven themselves to be remarkably tenacious and resilient.

When people say they're unemployed, bored, or have nothing to do, I sigh and think, "If only time were transferable.

Though one__ occupation for his or her livelihood involves physical work or menial labour, it is held that the job carries dignity, compared to the jobs that involve more intellect than body.