Profession Quotes

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?

Flying is the only active profession I could ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.

I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself.

And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.

An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong.

Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

Architecture is not a profession, it is a discipline.

The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession

It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all.

If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness.

I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

What the internet has done is destroy film criticism. I would never have guessed that the profession of film criticism would be going the way of the dodo bird.

There is no profession more essential than that of an educator, and it's time for all of us to embrace and celebrate their importance and contribution to America's children.

The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons.

In the sales profession, the real work begins after the sale is made.

If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.

[Magic] Johnson is seriously remarkable, in terms of what he has accomplished in his profession and outside of his profession as well.

Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned...Is there no remedy for all this ante-natal child murder?

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as one of the hazards of his profession.

Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.

One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.

Our profession is good, if practiced in the spirit of it; it is damnable fraud and iniquity when its true spirit is supplied by a spirit of mischief-making and money catching.

Storytelling: the world's second oldest profession.

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.

Stand-up is a very scary, very solitary profession, but you have to experience it to figure out if it's right for you.

I wasn't funny as a kid. I remember enjoying comedians, but I never understood it was a job choice or a profession.

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered.

In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.

You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.

The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.

Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics.

A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.

The American people rightly look to their military leaders to be not only skilled in the technical aspects of the profession of arms, but to be men of integrity

Arson is a respected profession among certain subcultures in Jersey, and the good ones don't get caught. The good ones channel lightning and mysterious acts of spontaneous combustion.

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.

Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.