Profession Quotes

You get one life. And if you make the mistake of choosing a profession that doesn't enrich anybody but you, you wont even live that one

It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.

Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching.

The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows.

You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and the relationship. You have just a profession.

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

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

In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.

We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know.

Frustrations are going to be there in every profession you're in.

All professions are... filled with demands.

The problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it's possession.

I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor.

By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I am (in the full force of the term) an anarchist. Listen to me.

There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.

No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story.

I don't do stunts and I don't think many actors do. For an actor to say they do their own stunts I don't think is very respectful of the profession of stunt men and women.

Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.

I think there is universal agreement within the economics profession that the decline - the sharp decline in the quantity of money played a very major role in producing the Great Depression.

Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing.

All a singer needs is voice and expression anything else you have is an asset to your profession.

It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession.

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Doing this part is the highlight of my career. What a way to leave the profession!

Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?

The religion is a personal thing in my life and fighting in the ring, it's boxing. It's my profession. God always gives me strength.

I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.

Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience.

This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.

Giving is a universal opportunity. Regardless of your age, profession, religion, income bracket, and background, you have the capacity to create change.

If you're successful at a young age, no matter the profession, there has to come a time when you reevaluate everything, what it means to you. 'Is this what I want to do for the rest of my life?'

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

Acting is a strange profession, and, yes, sometimes I struggle with its worth, its value in the world.

It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.

This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

Writing is something you do alone. It's a profession for introverts who wanna tell you a story but don't wanna make eye contact while telling it

All the learn'd are cowards by profession.

Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

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

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.

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

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.

Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world.

Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my mood, my spirits.

[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a workman, but he is sometimes paid as little as an unskilled laborer.