Profession Quotes · Page 25

I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.

— Malcolm McDowell

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

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

— Lincoln Child

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

— Masiela Lusha

It is a pretty odd profession - tickling people - but it can be lucrative.

— George Miller

Make your passion your profession.And be what you are not anybody else you want to Be.

— Paul Gilbert

It's important to know where you've come from so that you can know where you're going. I probably chose my profession because…

— Cary Grant

What do you do when you don't know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than in any…

— R. D. Laing

To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help…

— Vicki Baum

So, I think I would say, enjoy the process of learning to dance. The process of our profession, and not its final…

— Jacques d'Amboise

England is the country where I learned my profession. They are the ones that trained me, they are the ones that believed…

— Mario Testino

I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and…

— Vivien Leigh

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift…

— Nathanael Emmons

I don't have an aversion to quote unquote remakes, because I understand what dramatic writing is, what the dramatic profession has always…

— William Monahan

In terms of my profession, I'm passionate about financial literacy. I want to live in a financially literate society. I want kids…

— Mellody Hobson

I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every…

— Alexander Woollcott

Education and training for all children to be equal in opportunity in all schools, colleges, universities, and other institutions of training in…

— Huey Long

For decades, many blacks were reluctant to pursue a profession that was associated with servitude. If you went to school, it was…

— Marcus Samuelsson

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men…

— Dee Dee Myers

I think it's imperative to follow your heart and choose a profession you're passionate about, and if you haven't found that 'spark'…

— Steve Kerr

It almost looks like analysis were the third of those 'impossible' professions in which one can be quite sure of unsatisfying results.…

— Sigmund Freud

I've always said that you were too smart to have a profession. Smart people are hopeless in the face of anything actual.…

— Heidi Julavits

Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.

— Robert Stack

Basically, I would be happy with any profession where I got to be creative and make things.

— Christopher Paolini

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

— Will Rogers

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

— Harriet Martineau

Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many people.

— Noah Baumbach

“Sensuality is instrumental to developing the confidence for personal and professional success.”

— Lebo Grand

That's one great thing about my profession, traveling to locations.

— Dean Stockwell

“We work in a profession that has consequences for the heart,”

— Donna Leon

There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.

— Luciano Pavarotti

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself...

— Sophia Loren

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

— Dan Quayle

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.

— Jonathan Swift

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

— Uta Hagen

The government should now launch an initiative to encourage people to join the social work profession.

— Andy Sawford

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

— James Carville

Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority.

— Mark Kostabi