Profession Quotes
First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.
It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.
Rather than a profession, photography has always been a passion for me, a passion closer to an obsession.
Because students leave school without financial skills, millions of educated people pursue their profession successfully, but later find themselves, struggling financially.
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life
Never not dare to hang yourself. That's the only way you grow in your profession. You must continually attempt things that you think are beyond you, or you get into a complete rut.
There's nothing else I would rather do, unless there was a profession that involved cuddling bunny rabbits and kittens all day for money.
I try and be as stupid as possible regarding my profession, which means I try to look at as few design magazines as possible.
It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can’t have.
Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn it very quickly, you can fool somebody into thinking you're a great magician.
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.
If you wish to know the truth about your business or your profession, know that it is an activity of good. It is an activity of your partnership with the infinite.
I didnt go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession.
I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training
One of the most dangerous and best-kept secrets of the medical profession is the epidemic of anesthesiologists who are addicted to their own drugs.
Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't embrace it. I succumbed to it.
Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his dark profession an affront to his fellow actors.
I am not confident around people. Maybe, I have become slightly more confident over the years because of my profession.
I love this profession, but God, it can just destroy people, and I don't want that to happen and become some monster.
To me designing has never been a job or profession. It's a way of life, like a priest or rabbi.
The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession.
The world cannot always understand one's profession of faith, but it can understand service.
When the homebrewers stop entering the profession, and the backyard breweries are squeezed out, then it will become stagnant.
There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors.
We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that.
Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.
Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.
When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.
Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach.
In almost any profession, even if you're the kid of an actor, people are very supportive and want to see the next generation.
Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.
I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.
Anything that becomes an obstacle in life is only an opportunity to learn and it's the same in any profession I think.
Entrepreneurship is a process, not a job or profession. So be faithful to the process and remember that even when times are bad, the process will give you a glimpse of the future that lies ahead.
I think a lot of us know when it's our time. No matter what profession you're in, you get a feeling. If you worked on it long enough, you know when it's ready.
Im a shy person. I contradict my own profession, because Im an introvert in a very glamorous world.
We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out.
When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law.
Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and never take 'no' for an answer.
