Profession Quotes

I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.

Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

I chose to enter a profession that is not easy. To be able to say that I am doing what I love for a living - man, it isn't work. I cannot begin to describe how fortunate I am.

For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

Music isn't only a profession.

Acting is the loneliest profession I know.

It's a profession where merit is not necessarily rewarded.

The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.

If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished - there will always be work you haven't done.

Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me.

It is not good for beauty that it should be a profession.

It shouldn't come as any surprise that those who choose acting as a profession are phonies who live in a fantasy world. What is surprising is how many of them are blissfully unaware of it.

I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

I really admire really good reporters. Obviously not the gossip ones, but it could be quite an interesting profession, depending on what you're investigating.

I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.

I wasn't sued out of medicine, I wasn't arbitrated out of the profession.

Even when a film is finished, when I direct a film, sometimes it's a dark profession, but it requires a peculiar form of courage that I admire.

The thing about 'Soft Machine' and me was that I never considered another profession.

I think that acting is a very humanizing profession.

Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.

After the age of 30 in the movie profession, you're pretty well over as far as the casting people are concerned.

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

The three most important things for a sportscaster are knowledge of the game, a passion for sports and the profession, and the stamina to struggle.

Science may not be as intimate as the medical profession; nonetheless, it certainly is a community in which ideas are often shared as contributions, not as proprietary things.

Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.

We have Trumpist (ph) tendencies in Europe. Look up Marine Le Pen in France. Look at the Five Star Movement headed by a clown by profession, Beppe Grillo, in Italy.

We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.

One of the good things about the profession of being a professor, is that you also have time to do what interests you and what you care about or what you're good at.

I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind.

I am really glad to be working at the profession that I love.

Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]

the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!

Acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.

I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.

I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened.

Acting is not a profession of competing with other actors, but rather a vocation of sharing with fellow human beings.

When a profession is protected by academic freedom and tenure, it tends to turn inward. To a large extent that's good.

I am not allowed by my profession to diagnose somebody from a distance, but one can observe certain symptoms of sociopathy in George W. Bush.

And we have got to go back - I will tell you what we have got to do. We have got to go back to the small disciplines that really make a difference in defining ourselves as a profession. And we will.

Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful.

When pursued with a pure heart, acting is an entirely selfless profession.

I must like my profession, since I can hardly distinguish myself from it.

God is concerned that Christians live consistent with their profession even in the seemingly small and insignificant areas of life.

I took the standpoint that the profession of technologist, a man who masters matter, is a masculine profession, if not the only masculine profession there is.

In my profession you have to be very strong within yourself in order to block out the rejection and block out the opinions and the commentary that happens.

I would never say don't do acting [to my kids], because I think it is a glorious profession and I am so thankful for everything it has let me express.

My art and profession is to live.

Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.