One of the principal occupations of man is to divine woman.
In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.
At its essence, the message of the Occupations is simply this: ‘Here in the face of power we will sit and create a new society, in which you do count. ’
When occupations come to us we must accept them; when things come to us we must understand them from the ground up.
Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?
Equal pay for equal work continues to be seen as applying to equal pay for men and women in the same occupation, while the larger point of continuing relevance in our day is that some occupations have depressed wages because women are the chief employee. The former is a pattern of sex discrimination, the latter of institutionalized sexism.
Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.
There is, I suppose, no occupation in the world which has an influence on the efficiency and happiness of the members of nearly all other occupations so continuous and so permeating as that of the working housewife and mother.
Prostitution requires for its diminution not only laws, well enforced, to abolish the traffic in womanhood; not only better social protection against harpies who seduce young girls seeking an honest livelihood; not only better chaperonage of young girls in exposed occupations; not only better opportunities for natural enjoyment of youthful pleasure under morally safe conditions; not only these - but most of all, greater power on the part of the average young girl to earn her own support under right conditions and for a living wage.
One of my favorite occupations is making radiovideo edits. I love singles.
You do research into specific occupations of the character, with specific behaviorisms that their daily life might give them. You do as much research as you want, as you can. Now that you have such open access to the Internet, it's very easy to do so.
To snatch the passing moment and examine it for signs of eternity is the noblest of occupations.
Drying a widow's tears is one of the most dangerous occupations known to man.
There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.
I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where you're not only allowed that, but you're encouraged.
The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.
Let thine occupations be few, saith the sage, if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life.
Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.
