Occupational Hazards Quotes

• Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.

  Queen Victoria

  Pregnancy, Wife, Hazards

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• I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cows disease.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Heartbroken, Mad Cow Disease, Meat

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.

  John Stott

  Christian, Hazards, Discouragement

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• Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

  Sam Snead

  Sports, Golf, Hazards

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• Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

  Alvin Toffler

  Technology, Progress, Hazards

  alvin toffler (1970). “future shock”

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• The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.

  John Stott

  Pride, Hazards, Chiefs

  John R. W. Stott (1985). “Involvement: Social and sexual relationships in the modern world”, Fleming H. Revell Company

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• A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Thinking, Hazards, Busybodies

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• Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming; feedback is the treatment.

  Kent Beck

  Technology, Optimism, Hazards

  Kent Beck (2000). “Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change”, p.31, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Eating a lot is an occupational hazard but it's a pretty great problem to have. I spend a lot of time eating sweets on TV - cake, cupcakes, donuts, and pudding. It's a dream job, but at the same time there will be days where I wake up knowing I will eat 15 desserts!

  Gail Simmons

  Dream, Sweet, Jobs

  "Gail Simmons Dishes on Top Chef and More". Interview with Emily Hebert, www.elle.com. April 29, 2011.

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• Either we're a team or we aren't. Either you trust me or you don't." Hale took a step toward her. "What's it going to be, Kat?" It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth; in that moment Kat didn't have a clue what to say. I carn't do this with out you sounded trite. What they were doing was to big for a simple please. Hale I-" You know what? Never mind. Either way, I'm in Kat." He seemed utterly resloved as he slipped on his sunglasses. "I'm all in

  Ally Carter

  Team, Lying, Simple

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• Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.

  Harriet Lerner

  Motherhood, Feelings, Hazards

  "Life preservers: staying afloat in love and life". Book by Harriet Goldhor Lerner, 1996.

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• One of the occupational hazards of being an actor, the reason why so many actors are insecure, is that the only way we know we're good is when other people tell us.

  David Oyelowo

  Insecure, People, Hazards

  Source: variety.com

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• My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life.

  Mary McCarthy

  Real, Hazards, Helping

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• The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Hazards, Prime, Managers

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• I don't feel any pressure at all because I don't care. That's an occupational hazard... but if you're doing anything of any worth, and not doing something that's safe and anodyne and trying to be populist and a national treasure, then you've got to assume that as many people hate what you do - and you - as like what you do and like you.

  Ricky Gervais

  Hate, People, Trying

  "Cemetery Junction - Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• When you are an actor, rejection and disappointment are an occupational hazard.

  David Morrissey

  Disappointment, Rejection, Hazards

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• Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Games, Enemy, Hazards

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• My occupational hazard is my occupation's just not around.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Hazards, Occupation

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• It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

  Ally Carter

  Truth, Lying, Hazards

  Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.45, Hachette UK

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• It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most free, alive, interesting.

  Richard J. Foster

  People, Interesting, Hazards

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• My teacher, Hopkins, often commented on the craving for certainty that led so many physicists into mysticism or into the Church and similar organisations ... Faith seems to be an occupational hazard for physicists.

  Norman Pirie

  Faith, Teacher, Science

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• The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too.

  Thomas McGuane

  Long, Tickets, Hazards

  Thomas McGuane (2015). “Panama”, p.46, Macmillan

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• Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.

  Calvin Trillin

  Dark, Hazards, May

  Calvin Trillin (1987). “Uncivil liberties”, Penguin Group USA

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• I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard.

  Viola Davis

  Queens, Numbers, Long

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• Being pregnant is a very boring six months. I am not particularly maternal. It's an occupational hazard of being a wife.

  Anne, Princess Royal

  Wife, Months, Six

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