Profession Quotes · Page 13

Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

— Rosemary Mahoney

I wouldn't have taken up modeling as a profession. It was more of a hobby.

— Kriti Sanon

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

— Anonymous

In the words of the philosopher Sceptum, the founder of my profession: am I going to get paid for this?

— Terry Pratchett

Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.

— Ludwig von Mises

Public scrutiny is a part of the profession. And I kind of enjoy it.

— Pulkit Samrat

Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions.

— Theodore Burghard Hurt Brameld

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

— John Edensor Littlewood

Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live…

— Moss Hart

First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts;…

— Paul Klee

Anfering sex for money is not a profession that glorifies women; it is a profession born of desperation, poverty, alieatioin, and loneliness.

— Ann Rule

There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions…

— Bobby Knight

If you are a doctor or farmer, be sincere about your profession. If you can do what you do honestly, you will…

— Farhan Akhtar

If it isn’t for the writing, we’ve got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let…

— Irving Thalberg

In no other profession does the character and personality of a director play a more vital role in the development of young…

— Clair Bee

Of course, the slightest little mistake on the wire will deprive me of my life, so in that sense, yes, it is…

— Philippe Petit

In the last century the practice of medicine has become no more than an adjunct to the pharmaceutical industry and the other…

— Vernon Coleman

Benedict (Cumberbatch, who is playing Sherlock) looks amazing. He's still got a Sherlockian silhouette, with a large overcoat, but in a classic…

— Martin Freeman

I'm suffering from stage fright. I don't like making speeches. [...] I'm the kind of introvert actor who likes putting on other…

— Helena Bonham Carter

I can do what my energy, my time, to my other sort of commitment. And then also emotional, religious harmony. So in…

— Dalai Lama

It's great to be excited by your profession, whether you are a doctor or a writer. I started writing books when I…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

You had to work tremendously hard. You had to have that commitment to training, you had to have that innate ability. It's…

— Paul Rankin

All words have the "taste" of a profession, a genre, a tendency, a party, a particular work, a particular person, a generation,…

— Mikhail Bakhtin

When you're talking about truth and love, you can wield your profession, your craft, in a way that hurts people because you're…

— Josh Garrels

A new danger now beset him [Grotius], the danger of becoming simply a venal pleader, a creature who grinds out arguments on…

— Andrew Dickson White

Most actors don't understand acting. I think it's an art form that craft is out the window. I don't think people get…

— Viola Davis

In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who…

— James T. Farrell

“...My dad, may he rest in peace, taught me many wonderful things. And one of the things he taught me was never…

— David Mamet

James Russell offers a timely and compelling blueprint for a realistic transformation of America's energy consumption by refusing to fall victim to…

— Barry Bergdoll

Without laughter life on our planet would be intolerable. So important is laughter to us that humanity highly rewards members of one…

— Steve Allen

... we have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing…

— Hannah Arendt

It should be apparent that the belief in objectivity in journalism, as in other professions, is not just a claim about what…

— Michael Schudson

My wife was a licensed psychologist by profession and a college professor of psychology.

— Marvin Sapp

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

— Chris Martin

I walk on the wire; it's my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike.

— Philippe Petit

“Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine.”

— Sara Sheridan

To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood.

— Amos Alonzo Stagg

Acting is my profession; I enact all roles with sincerity.

— Mohanlal

What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it.

— Robert Duvall

“Behind every challenge of being a non specialist, there's a beauty of being a multifaceted person.”

— Iva Škorić