Top 207 Occupational Hazards Quotes & Sayings

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

My dad was a freedom fighter in Denmark against the occupational forces - the S.S. and the Gestapo and all that.

Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.

Cooking is the best occupational therapy for me. And when I cook, everybody comes to eat. It's the greatest thing.

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

One of the occupational hazards of reviewing year-end biopics with Oscar ambitions is pointing out discrepancies between the real subjects and their on-screen avatars.

I'm not a depressive, but I certainly have mood swings. It's an occupational hazard, I would say, and I'm glad I'm in the occupation I'm in.

The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.

Economists have the same occupational hazard as baseball managers and football coaches: Every person on the street knows their job better than they do.

The occupational hazard of being a Playboy Bunny is the aching facial muscles brought on by obligatory smiles.

The dignity of the act is the deliberate, circumspect, open, and serene performance by these men in the clear light of day, and by a concurrent purpose, of a civic duty, which embraced the greatest hazards to themselves and to all the people from whom they held this deputed discretion, but which, to their sober judgments, promised benefits to that people and their posterity, from generation to generation, exceeding these hazards and commensurate with its own fitness.

Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.

Egos are an occupational hazard in acting, but I don't have much of one, and my husband doesn't have much of one, so it's good.

Embryonic stem cell research is at the leading edge of a series of moral hazards.

Writing in certain environments carries with it an occupational risk.

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

Life is itself an occupational hazard. Sometimes the things we love hurt us. Embracing and navigating around that contradiction is part of what it is to be alive.

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

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

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

You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations.

Natural hazards, however formidable, are inherently less dangerous and less uncertain than fighting hazards. All conditions are more calculable, all obstacles more surmountable than those of human resistance.

There are hazards in anything one does but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.

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

Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.

In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease.

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

Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.

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

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

Pantagruelism is a certain gaitey of the spirit consisting in a disdain for the hazards of fortune.

A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

A tendency to make metaphorical connections is an occupational hazard for those of us who write.

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are insoluble.

A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.

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.

Desire can blind us to the hazards of our enterprises.

The primary occupational hazard of blogging is this: it's easier when you yourself take on some of the traits of insanity. It's a job that requires the doer to be selfish, self-absorbed, and superficial.

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.

When the path ahead of you is uphill, surrounded by rough spots, hazards and obstacles: use a pitching wedge.

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.

There are several occupational hazards for book reviewers, chief among them being the Curse of the Jaded Palate - that sinking feeling when you start reading a new book and begin to suspect that you've seen it all before.

There are hazards in everything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

A friend is worth all hazards we can run.

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

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

The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.

Television brings with it two dangerous hazards: the worship of celebrity and the blurring of reality and fantasy.

The difficulties and hazards of marriage are greatly increased where backgrounds are different

Although it shouldn't be, men behaving badly is sort of an occupational hazard for those working in Washington.

A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.

Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.

Every job carries occupational hazards.

The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality.

One of the many hazards of socializing with vampires. It makes you smell bad. A minor hazard, comparatively.

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

Most practising scientists focus on 'bite-sized' problems that are timely and tractable. The occupational risk is then to lose sight of the big picture.