Profession Quotes

One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.

My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.

In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

If you want to be a professional footballer, you have to respect your profession. You have to respect the people that are making you the star you are. You have to protect the passion every day.

Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.

Acting is a youthful profession.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.

Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority.

Our words and our works are evidence that our profession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is true.

A soldier is the most-trusted profession in America. Americans have trust in you because you trust each other. No matter how difficult times are, those of us who love the Army must stick with it.

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.

Lo, I am the most stupendous in the land at my particular profession.

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

Live comedy's a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You're only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

It's all about finding your voice in whatever your profession... it helps your confidence.

Success is what you envisage it to be. You have to go into any profession knowing what you want because people will place expectations on you and their idea of success could taint yours.

Writing is a crummy profession, but a good hobby.

nursing was regarded as simply an extension of the unpaid services performed by the housewife - a characteristic attitude that haunts the profession to this day.

I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.

The legal profession is a business with a tremendous collection of egos. Few people who are not strong egotistically gravitate to it.

It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.

The Great Commission to go into all the world is not only geographical, but must include every field, profession, discipline, sport, etc.

The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have to build what's offered to me.

Education is such a noble profession, its a wonderful way to serve.

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.

You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again.

The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.

I had turned my anxiety into my profession.

The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art.

Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.

As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.

I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies -- unless one counts journalists.

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.

The pharmaceutical corporations are engaged in the systematic corruption of the medical profession, country by country

Acting, is not a profession for adults.

I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.

Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

Beware of a misfit occupation. . . . Consider carefully your natural bent, whether for business or a profession.

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because parts of the horse are noticeably present.

Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?