Profession Quotes

People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But in fact, they are not at all different.

Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

Whenever I ravel I seek the benefits of this great profession of chiropractic

I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.

Sport is the only profession I know of that when you retire you have to go to work.

Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.

[The] noblest of [Arabs] united the love of arms with the profession of merchandise.

I was so happy I didn't have to work that night. That was the truth, because show business is about the hardest profession in the world.

I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.

I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.

I thought a parent's job was to tell their children not to go into acting as a profession!

What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.

Acting has a strong sensual quality that I get such a... you say 'kick' in America? It's a fantastic profession in that way.

People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.

I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.

install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time.

Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living.

Apologists for the profession contend that lawyers are as honest as other men, but this is not very encouraging.

In the actual condition of medical science, the physician mostly plays the part of simple spectator of the sad episodes which his profession furnishes him.

When asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession, Bette Davis would answer, "The courage to be hated."

We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.

I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.

It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of friends that I trust who are film directors and writers and people in my profession.

I never thought of politics as a profession.

It is not the mere study of the Law, but to become eminent in the profession of it, which is to yield honor and profit.

I do this profession. I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people.

My profession?consists of bringing truths nearer to the point where they explode. 396

I take my profession as an economist seriously and feel a commitment to the truth. This is incompatible with having to toe the political party line.

I love my work, and I think that I was so lucky to pick a profession where it's a joy to go to work every day.

Every life is a profession of faith.

...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it is the history of every one of us. It is a great art to saunter.

Beware of any profession for which you must buy new clothes.

In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.

The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing

My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race.

The thing about writing in America is that writers in America have an arc. You enter writing as a career, you expect to be successful, and really it's the wrong thing. It's not a profession.

I love to see actors' work. I love to surf channels late at night and accidentally run into movies I hadn't seen before. It makes me very proud of the profession.

It seems to me that the bane of our country is a profession of faith either with no basis of real belief, or with no proper examination of the grounds on which the creed is supposed to rest.

This isn't just a job. This is a service profession. We uphold the law, babe." Ranger

He picked the wrong profession. Should've stayed a prostitute. He'd have made millions. - Cat

Acting isn't a profession, it's a way of living.

Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.

I think of being an actor as a blue-collar profession.

Where else, in a non-totalitarian country, but in the political profession is the individual expected to sacrifice all-including his own career-for the national good?

I'm at the eye doctor. I'm always at the eye doctor. It's like this is my profession. I am no longer a writer, I'm now an optomoligical patient. By the way, this job doesn't pay well.