A Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

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

Barbara Kingsolver

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Business Eavesdropping Hazard Think Writer

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Barbara Kingsolver
American - Novelist
Born: April 8, 1955

A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

Dawn Powell

I was having a nice anonymous little time as a writer. I really was on the writer path. I was sort of minding my own business. I loved making a living in music.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.This minding of other people's business expresses itself in gossip, snooping and meddling, and also in feverish interest in communal, national and racial affairs. In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

Eric Hoffer

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

David Morrissey

The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.

John Stott

The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality.

Henry Mintzberg

Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.

Harriet Lerner

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

Kent Beck

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

Mary McCarthy

I think that cosmetic enhancements in my profession are just an occupational hazard. But I think, more culturally, I'm interested in starting the conversation about aging gracefully and how, instead of making it a cultural problem, we make it individuals' problems.