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Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
Queen Victoria
Wife
Hazard
Occupational
Being
Pregnant
Being Pregnant
The higher the level of people's perceived self-efficacy, the wider the range of career options they seriously consider, the greater their interest in them, and the better they prepare themselves educationally for the occupational pursuits they choose.
Albert Bandura
People
Better
Seriously
Consider
Range
Perceived
Higher
Pursuits
Greater
Occupational
Options
Interest
Them
Themselves
Choose
Prepare
Level
Wider
Career
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.
Viola Davis
Good
Husband
Hazard
Occupational
Egos
Much
Acting
Writing in certain environments carries with it an occupational risk.
Wole Soyinka
Writing
Carries
Risk
Environments
Occupational
Certain
I went to physical therapy, occupational therapy, voice, every kind of therapy except mental therapy - obviously!
Teri Garr
Every
Kind
Physical
Mental
Voice
Except
Obviously
Occupational
Therapy
I feel that's a good thing as an actor that you do not feel satisfied. Whenever I go back and watch myself on screen, I find multiple reasons to redo that scene. That's an occupational hazard that most actors face. You can never come to terms with it.
Anushka Sharma
Myself
Good
You
Face
Satisfied
Back
On-Screen
Find
Scene
Good Thing
Hazard
Never
Feel
Come
Most
Terms
Occupational
Go
Screen
Whenever
Reasons
Multiple
Actor
Thing
Watch
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
Best
You
Book
People
Everyone
Say
Hazard
Wrong
Read
Occupational
Scientist
Impression
Get
Going
Being
Information
Realize
Then
Whole
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.
Ryan Holiday
You
Selfish
Yourself
Job
Insanity
Easier
Some
Superficial
Take
Hazard
Self-Absorbed
Primary
Occupational
Doer
Blogging
Traits
Requires
Cooking is the best occupational therapy for me. And when I cook, everybody comes to eat. It's the greatest thing.
Pamela Adlon
Best
Me
Cooking
Everybody
Eat
Occupational
Greatest
Greatest Thing
Cook
Therapy
Thing
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.
Frances McDormand
Conversation
Problem
Problems
Think
Cosmetic
About
More
Hazard
Instead
Individuals
Make
Occupational
How
Making
Cultural
Gracefully
Just
Interested
Aging
Profession
Starting
Occupational licensing laws - in trades like moving companies, realtors, hair dressers, limousine services, beauticians, physical therapy, and on and on - stunt small business start ups, destroy jobs, and raise prices for lower-income consumers.
Stephen Moore
Business
Hair
Destroy
Jobs
Licensing
Physical
Laws
Small
Small Business
Prices
Consumers
Like
Stunt
Occupational
Trades
Ups
Moving
Therapy
Companies
Services
Start
Raise
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.
Richard Corliss
Ambition
On-Screen
Out
Pointing
Hazards
Between
Occupational
Real
Reviewing
Subjects
Oscar
Economists have the same occupational hazard as baseball managers and football coaches: Every person on the street knows their job better than they do.
Kevin Hassett
Better
Job
Every
Hazard
Football
Economists
Knows
Occupational
Than
Person
Same
Managers
Coaches
Baseball
Street
I've harassed pediatricians and nurses, demanded extra conferences with preschool teachers, contacted speech therapists and occupational therapists over delays other mothers probably wouldn't have noticed, stressed over magnet school applications three years before they're due.
Kim Brooks
School
Three
Before
Extra
Other
Nurses
Delays
Magnet
Demanded
Over
School Teachers
Occupational
Mothers
Due
Years
Conferences
Noticed
Harassed
Teachers
Therapists
Preschool
Applications
Stressed
Speech
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
You
Market
Relationships
Once
Mad
Some
Point
Hazard
Look
Occupational
Affected
Been
Cows
Heartbroken
Get
Disease
Gonna
Meat
Now
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
Battle
Writing
Nine
India
Stuck
Writers
Hazard
Almost
Most
Periods
Occupational
Greatest
Got
Passage
Blocked
His
Years
Being
Novel
Last
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.
Tony Bradman
You
Book
Seen
Feeling
Reading
Sinking
Before
Several
Hazards
New
New Book
Occupational
Reviewers
Chief
Begin
Suspect
Jaded
Being
Curse
Them
Palate
Among
Start
I don't think I could, with a straight face, describe myself as a completely positive person, but I'm not overly negative, either. On the whole, most writers think plots through to their consequences, and it's not always a sunny place. I have an occupational temperament for anxiety.
James Lasdun
Positive
Myself
Anxiety
Negative
Face
Think
Consequences
Positive Person
Plots
Sunny
Temperament
Could
Through
Writers
Most
Occupational
Always
Overly
Person
Either
Place
Straight
Whole
Describe
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
Teeth
Battles
Out
Horses
Hazard
Knocked
Come
Well
Occupational
Fists
Off
Getting
Your
Using
Fought
Swords
Axes
Medieval