Profession Quotes · Page 21

Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.

— Anna Quindlen

What our profession is all about is interacting with people.

— Lorin Maazel

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

— Keri Russell

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

— Virginia Woolf

Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

— Gerald Brenan

Make-up is an integral part of my lifestyle because of the profession I'm in.

— Kirti Kulhari

The thing about 'Soft Machine' and me was that I never considered another profession.

— Kevin Ayers

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

— Charles Lyell

He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.

— Michael Heseltine

I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

Aviation is a dynamic profession. The rate of obsolescence of equipment is high and new aircraft have to be placed in inventory…

— Keith B. McCutcheon

Those who are compelled to paint by force, without being in the necessary mood, can produce only ungainly works, because this profession…

— Titian

I have chosen music as a profession for myself. I have never felt any kind of burden or pressure on being a…

— Ankit Tiwari

The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing

— Isabel Allende

In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that…

— Constance Baker Motley

Sandeep Jauhar specializes in peeling back the veneer, revealing the discomfiting truths of today’s medical world. He is unafraid to dig deeply…

— Danielle Ofri

There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives…

— Laurence Overmire

I don't have regrets of being an architect. You are looking continuously - to the leaves of the trees, the shapes of…

— Rafael Moneo

Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained…

— Theodore Martin

Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management,…

— Anonymous

The general public is easy. You don't have to answer to anyone; and as long as you follow the rules of your…

— Moliere

The whole thrust of science and the medical profession is to try and prevent it from happening, to try to prolong life,…

— Woody Allen

As a kid, I dreamt of becoming a writer. My most exciting pastime was reading novels; in fact, I would read anything…

— Maryam Mirzakhani

I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social…

— Ted Nelson

I don't want to be in the spotlight, ever! I don't know why I got in this profession!

— Ana de Armas

Sitcoms are usually given short shrift by the acting profession, but it's quite an amazing job.

— Lea Thompson

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

I'm a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night.

— Josh Fox

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

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

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