Profession Quotes

Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company.

Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.

My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.

Do you know, every time I've seen you you've been like the Grim Reaper of goodwill and cheer. You should find another profession.

What our profession is all about is interacting with people.

Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.

He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.

I read once that the true mark of a pro - at anything - is that he understands, loves, and is good at even the drudgery of his profession.

When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

When people, women included, hear that you are writing, they assume that it is simply a hobby to fill in the time between doing the washing-up and the ironing. It couldn't possibly be a profession.

The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession... and I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

I knew that I liked what I was doing, that it was what I wanted to do for a living, and that the profession didn't really exist so much. So I had to create it.?

Your mother was a goatherder. (Savitar) It’s an honorable profession. (Takeshi) Yeah, for a goat. (Savitar)

A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.

Because Chinese art is booming, it legitimizes this profession.

I was supposed to choose apractical profession, but this was simply unbearable to me.

HOMŒOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.

The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [...] One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.

Don't drown the man who taught you to swim. If you learned your trade or profession from the man, do not set up in opposition to him.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people try their hand at this demanding profession (humor columnist). After a few months, almost all of them have given up and gone back to the ninth grade.

The Lord is not so concerned about what we study or what profession we follow as long as it is an honest living.

Art is a profession, not a shrine.

Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.

Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not to write - I mean if you're supposed to be writing.

Everyone, at any age, has talents that aren't fully developed-even those who reach the top of their profession.

Law is a very addictive profession.

Writing is the only profession where nobody considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. Money is like an arm or a leg; use it or lose it.

Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.

Politics in America has become a Jewish profession, just like arts and the law.

Here's a six-foot-ten guy in sneakers and the lady's asking me, 'Profession?'

Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.

Writing is not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy.

Parenting is the most important profession in the world.

My life is pretty well at peace, and the profession is more of an avocation. It's a calling, if you like, rather than a job. I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would.

Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession that is exempt.

The individual who violates the rules in a zealous search for an answer to the problem may overstep the bounds and thereby suffer the loss of his relationships to the organized medical profession.

Writing is not a profession, it's an addiction.

As for another profession ... I suppose I'd manage a global-macro hedge fund. I love that kind of stuff. Weird, I know, but I find it fascinating.

I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.

I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient was and the sense that this was a noble profession.

My main hope for my children would be that whatever profession or calling they choose in life, that they pursue it with passion.

I don't think I would want my children to enter into my profession. There's a lot of stress and so much competition. There are easier things you can do with your life.

The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke.

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.

A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way.

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.