Profession Quotes · Page 24

Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.

— Aldo Leopold

I realized that what we do as professions affects how we act as people, big-time.

— Paula Patton

It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

— W. H. Auden

My parents wanted me to have an honorable profession and not to be a jester.

— Philippe Petit

I must like my profession, since I can hardly distinguish myself from it.

— Mason Cooley

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

“Making a product is just an activity, making a profit on a product is the achievement.”

— Amit Kalantri

...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it…

— Henry David Thoreau

The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and…

— Charles Caleb Colton

When the homebrewers stop entering the profession, and the backyard breweries are squeezed out, then it will become stagnant.

— Greg Noonan

The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics…

— Marc Maron

“A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with…

— Julia Cameron

We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing…

— Mehmet Oz

He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave…

— Anonymous

War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

As we move forward, I am looking for a new leader of the Chicago Police Department to address the problems at the…

— Rahm Emanuel

I thought I'd be doing theater, really. That's all I had experience with growing up. I mean, I saw movies and television,…

— Zeljko Ivanek

Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to…

— Frederick Sanger

“No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a mistake in the choice of his profession, and every man, worthy of…

— Charlotte Brontë

Popularity doesn't bother me. It attests to the affection and comprehension of the public. The important thing is to retain the pioneer…

— Ennio Morricone

I had parents who believed I could do anything - and I know how that made me feel. I think both my…

— Reese Witherspoon

The medical profession [in Egypt] is also very commercial. Health is not given to the poor. You know, if you have money,…

— Nawal El Saadawi

The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified…

— Dallas Willard

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion...

— Harry Houdini

Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting.

— Anjelica Huston

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.

— Patricia Schroeder

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

— Martin Filler

When you get in this profession, you want the coaches to put more on your plate.

— Bam Adebayo

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

— Horace

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

Golf is my profession Show business is just to pay the green fees.

— Bob Hope

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

— Clay Shirky

Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.

— Jimenez Lai

My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage.

— E. Howard Hunt

Her profession's her religion, her sin is lifelessness.

— Bob Dylan

Lo, I am the most stupendous in the land at my particular profession.

— Chris Jericho