Occupational Hazard Quotes

#1. 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

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Mary McCarthy

#4. The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality.

Henry Mintzberg

#5. If there is an occupational hazard to writing, it's drinking.

Cormac McCarthy

#6. 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

#7. She's an old woman possessed of great powers
but aren't all old women possessed of great powers? Occupational hazard, I think.

Catherynne M Valente

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

Alice McDermott

#9. He shrugged. "occupational hazard of being a research assistant to a total dick".

Sylvain Reynard

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

David Morrissey

#11. 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

#12. Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.

Harriet Lerner

#13. 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

#14. Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.

Damon Galgut

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

Calvin Trillin

#16. The chief occupational hazard of leadership is pride.

John Stott

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

Dominic Monaghan

#18. When most of us hear the word cells, we think biology. I think penitentiary. (It's an occupational hazard.)

Reginald Dipwipple

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

Barbara Kingsolver

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

Germaine Greer

#21. 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.

Peter Landesman

#22. I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard.

Richard Russo

#23. Hello, Lady Witch," he said, breaking into a brazen grin. "Sorry to see you're laid up again."
"Occupational hazard," Lily mumbled...

Josephine Angelini

#24. 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

#25. But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression.

Bjorn Lomborg

#26. 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

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

Kent Beck

#28. I've come off horses and fought in medieval battles using axes, hammers and swords as well as fists. Getting your teeth knocked out is an occupational hazard.

James Cosmo

#29. 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

#30. Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.

Queen Victoria

#31. Occupation: Writer
Occupational Hazard: Carpel tunnel
Solution: Wrist guards to bed or my hands do all the sleeping
Perspective: I've decided my wrist guards have turned me into a Ninja Superhero that hides in the shadows

Christy Hall