Profession Quotes · Page 16

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

— Caroline B. Cooney

Earning of livelihood by following some profession is better than living on charity.

— Umar

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

— Suzanne Farrell

Amateurs built the Ark; Professionals built the Titanic.

— Elizabeth May

I think that being a housewife is the most noble profession there is.

— Gavin McInnes

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Rap is no longer a pastime; this is a worldwide profession.

— KRS-One

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

— Joseph Campbell

Most of you didn't think that helping people share books would be a subversive act...Yet the fact is that you have chosen…

— Naomi Klein

I believe a visible church to be a congregation of those who make a credible profession of their faith in Christ, and…

— Roger Sherman

Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population…

— John Boyle O'Reilly

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.…

— Katarina Witt

The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.

— Paul Krugman

The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all…

— Mikhail Botvinnik

If you want to be a professional footballer, you have to respect your profession. You have to respect the people that are…

— Emmanuel Petit

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

— William Hazlitt

Most actors and actresses are performative as people. It goes part and parcel with the profession and New York actors who are…

— Zoe Lister-Jones

There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an…

— Anna Quindlen

I was keen to challenge this vernacular as the role of the photojournalist was changing, and images were becoming urgent and more…

— Michael Salu

Personally, I do not see in Canada it would be a feasible thing if any Ministry organized taking over both the Health…

— William Osler

The thing to remember about the Declaration of Independence and the profession of freedom is that it was written by people who…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Our profession is built on the bedrock of trust - the trust that must inherently exist among Soldiers, and between Soldiers and…

— Raymond T. Odierno

Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

The essence of our profession is to give. What is it that we in the theater give? We give our body, voice,…

— Michael Chekhov

When government is invested with money power it rises above the citizen and under the profession of protecting him may actually constitute…

— E.C. Riegel

As a young woman working in journalism, I assumed harassment and discrimination came with the territory and that you just had to…

— Catherine Mayer

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these…

— James Truslow Adams

In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or…

— Adrienne Rich

If you have made the good profession, if you claimed to have passed through the gate, if you have received baptism in…

— Paul Washer

I'd have avoided some of the pain if I could. Anyone would. But I wouldn't have missed knowing any of the people-even…

— Red Skelton

If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would…

— Simon Greenleaf

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

— Jeff Koons

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

— Halle Berry

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

— Chesley Sullenberger

The profession I have keeps dragging me into drama and taking me away from baking, flowering and gardening.

— Lykke Li

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

— Pat Barker

I'm a politician. I run for office. That's my profession.

— Bella Abzug

I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

— Bela Lugosi