Profession Quotes · Page 3

Flattery and criticism are always in our profession.

— Sergio Ramos

Art is not a career - it's a life.

— Andy Goldsworthy

Politics, I love. It's a noble profession.

— George P. Bush

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

— Francis Bacon

Soldiering is a very important profession, is it not?

— Mike Jackson

Acting is an empty and usless profession.

— Marlon Brando

I do not like football. It is just my profession.

— Gabriel Batistuta

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

— George Bernard Shaw

As an actor I am prepared for every role, that's my profession.

— Neena Gupta

You need to know a lot to become master of your profession.

— Santiago Calatrava

I hope people from the social work profession do not encourage labelling.

— Carrie Lam

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our words and our works are evidence that our profession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is true.

— Alistair Begg

Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don't have to retire.

— Joan Hickson

Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.

— Andy Hargreaves

In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.

— Robert Genn

Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.

— George W. Bush

What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one…

— Erica Jong

We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can…

— Josh Hartnett

Acting is not a profession of competing with other actors, but rather a vocation of sharing with fellow human beings.

— Marjo-Riikka Makela

The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement.

— Samuel

You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George…

— Francis Ford Coppola

I don't think of being a woman in an industry of men. I didn't walk into the kitchen and go, 'Ooh, I'm…

— April Bloomfield

Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

— Oscar Wilde

The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In…

— Christian Smith

Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then…

— Neil Gaiman

As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up,…

— Vidya Balan

There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is…

— Agatha Christie

In my profession it isn’t a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own…

— Walter Moers

I think that there is philanthropy and there is publicity. If you can marry the two to do something good, then I…

— Mario Batali

Strive for excellence in your calling, but as a subsidiary to this: Do not fail to enrich your whole capital as man.…

— William Matthews

If you want to get to know somebody you don't ask other people: 'How is she?' You talk to the person herself.…

— Angelina Maccarone

Students generally have very little idea of the world they are entering into, and their teachers - like parents - are viewed…

— Marian Bantjes

We have been counseled to "seek . . . out of the best books words of wisdom." It is pointed out in…

— Henry D. Taylor

The byline is a replacement for many other things, not the least of them money. If someone ever does a great psychological…

— David Halberstam

Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single…

— Charles Babbage

“...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

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

— Hannah Arendt

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

— Steve Allen