A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
Dorothy L. Sayers

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William Cowper

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
Laurence Olivier

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.
Plato

An office occupation is another example as not only douse it disrupt the activities of the organization it also can raise the media profile of the campaign.
Ben Edwards

Another occupation might have been better.
F. H. Bradley

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.
Erma Bombeck

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.
John Burroughs

Bush's war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.
George Soros

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Henry R. Luce

But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation.
Little Richard

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.
Martha Gellhorn

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.
William Congreve

Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.
George Lucas

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.
Truman Capote

Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.
Ahmed Yassin

I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible.
Marcus V. Pollio

I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively and lead people to help and organize others less privileged.
Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.
Penelope Lively