Profession Quotes

Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.

— Avi

I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.

— Elie Wiesel

Poetry is not a profession, it is a destiny

— Mikhail Dudan

A man can be a hero in any profession

— Walt Whitman

Each profession has its own toolkit.

— Robert J. Shiller

Music isn't only a profession.

— Jose Carreras

Storytelling: the world's second oldest profession.

— Danny Harris

I work in a profession where you have to be calm.

— Serge Aurier

One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

— Loretta Young

Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.

— Andy Hargreaves

Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.

— Lincoln Child

When pursued with a pure heart, acting is an entirely selfless profession.

— Masiela Lusha

Sometimes you just don't show up, and in our profession, it's a bad day.

— Donald Cerrone

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

— Paul Newman

There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

— Edith Stein

When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the…

— Leon Jaworski

My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession…

— Kareena Kapoor Khan

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

— Campbell Scott

When you're in a public profession like I was, and you stop doing it like I did, people think you're either crazy…

— Tom Lehrer

I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so…

— Jon Hamm

“Men who create art feel a zillion times happier than men who create wealth. Art lives on but wealth diminishes.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is…

— Jasper Fforde

I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.

— John Howe

The advanced members of the medical profession know that the health of society is not to be obtained or maintained by medicines;…

— Robert Owen

I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who…

— Fairuza Balk

Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a…

— Criss Angel

Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some…

— Will Oldham

Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and…

— William Jennings Bryan

I was raised to be in service to something larger than myself. A lot of actors concentrate on what they will get…

— Tyne Daly

Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate…

— Henry David Thoreau

Whoever considers the number of absurd and ridiculous oaths necessary to be taken at present in most countries, on being admitted into…

— Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal

The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is…

— William Booth

And to me, that is the greatest danger, that people start questioning basic facts and start not understanding the importance of democratic…

— Ted Lieu

[I]f a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into…

— Thomas Reid

Whether young or old, rich or poor, learned or unlearned, should presume to dispense the mysteries of Christ without the strongest of…

— James Henley Thornwell

I love the theatre and I love working in the theatre but I'm a big cinefile and I love the movies. I…

— Romola Garai

I'm keen to do as little or as much reading and watching as the director may advise, and often off that you…

— Jude Law

Any profession should have norms around the issue you raise. And, in the words of the great economic thinker Albert Hirschman, we…

— Howard Gardner

You can't start out at 20 in whatever your profession is and say, "I want to win an Olympic medal," or "I…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin