Profession Quotes · Page 7

Art is a profession, not a shrine.

— Elizabeth Hardwick

Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.

— David Mamet

Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.

— Van Morrison

I was in a profession that received a lot of media.

— Darrell Royal

Making chocolate is a way of life, not a profession,

— Jacques Torres

Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.

— George Bernard Shaw

Architecture is not a profession, it is a discipline.

— Raimund Abraham

For my profession, you need hair.

— Mick Hucknall

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

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

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

— W. H. Auden

When asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession, Bette Davis would answer, "The courage to be hated."

— Frank Langella

I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are…

— Henry David Thoreau

I'm a witch woman--high on tobacco and holy water. I'm a woman delighted with her disasters. They give me something to do.…

— Sandra Cisneros

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except…

— Ulysses S. Grant

There's nothing else I would rather do, unless there was a profession that involved cuddling bunny rabbits and kittens all day for…

— Kat Dennings

In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The…

— Franz Grillparzer

The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is…

— Diane Cilento

I do my profession, my job, I give me all for my club...the rest doesn't matter to me. I don't care what…

— Cristiano Ronaldo

Whenever women have made any social gains, whether it's being accepted as athletes or moving into the professions, it's going to be…

— Kim Chernin

The peoples of the old world have their cities built for times gone by, when railroads and gunpowder were unknown. We can…

— Horace Bushnell

Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or…

— Joseph Addison

Instead of taking a very high-paying type of law job or something that I might be able to do, I have been…

— Russ Feingold

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of…

— Isaac Watts

The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the…

— Jon Weisman

The storm center of lawlessness in every American State is the State Capitol. It is there that the worst crimes are committed;…

— H. L. Mencken

Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality... Buildings…

— Christopher Alexander

Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making…

— Ernest Hemingway

While it is a very hard and sometimes very cruel profession, my love for the bike remains as strong now as it…

— Stephen Roche

That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed…

— William Penn

Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a…

— John F. Kennedy

In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property…

— James Madison

Nothing is known in our profession by guess; and I do not believe, that from the first dawn of medical science to…

— Astley Cooper

[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on…

— Karl Marx

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where…

— Herbert Hoover