#occupation

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. ↗

— William Osler

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Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting. ↗

— James D. Watson

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I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment. ↗

— Angelina Grimke

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A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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

— Penelope Lively

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Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

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You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money. ↗

— John McCarthy

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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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