Profession Quotes · Page 20

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

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

— Robert Genn

Golf is my real profession. Entertainment is just a sideline. I tell jokes to pay my greens fees.

— Bob Hope

Others see it as being at the top of their profession and standing out from the rest.

— Anonymous

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

— Andy Hargreaves

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

“Men who create art feel a zillion times happier than men who create wealth. Art lives on but wealth diminishes.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

It is not a profession to be a pianist and musician. It is a philosophy, a conception of life that cannot be…

— Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.

— John Howe

My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession…

— Kareena Kapoor Khan

When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the…

— Leon Jaworski

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

— Campbell Scott

When you're in a public profession like I was, and you stop doing it like I did, people think you're either crazy…

— Tom Lehrer

. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed…

— Beatrice Webb

In certain professions, you can love your profession; you can do it in a very professional way and do it wonderfully, but…

— Jose Carreras

It is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science…

— Herbert Hoover

I often wonder what my life would be like without the use of a library. Throughout my education and career, public and…

— David Horowitz

The most successful businessmen were often uneducated when measured by the scholastic standards of the teaching profession. But they were equal to…

— Ludwig von Mises

“I take pride in the fact that I work in this industry and whenever I am asked what I do, I simply…

— Tapan Singhel

You see, my version of why anyone would want to become an actor is that it's some psychological fixation, something that happened…

— Christoph Waltz

In recent years we have become much more preoccupied with streamlining and organizing our subject than with maintaining its overall vitality. If…

— Mark Kac

You work [as an actor] for a bit, and then the job ends 'cause you get thrown off a bridge. And then,…

— David Oakes

No it was not the novelty, and it was not the danger and the adventure (although these had their charm). It was…

— Pauline Gower

Art is created to make us, to make our passage through the world better, fruitful - and I would say that every…

— Chinua Achebe

By now, legions of tireless essayists and op-ed columnists have dressed feminists down for making such a fuss about entering the professions…

— Mary Blakely

This does not mean that the profession is about to abandon Darwin forever or indorse [sic] my views publicly. The situation remains…

— Norman Macbeth

Ever judge of men by their professions. For though the bright moment of promising is but a moment, and cannot be prolonged,…

— Robert Browning

Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly…

— Irvin D. Yalom

I think we all understand disappointing yourself. Especially in the acting profession, which is probably similar to a political career, even the…

— Corey Stoll

Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease which, once contracted, cannot be got out of…

— Monica Dickens

In art, I think it's not useful to be a professional of the profession. It will not give you something new.

— Albert Serra

Frustrations are going to be there in every profession you're in.

— Raphael Saadiq

Nice dress you're almost wearing. You ever think about changing professions?" -Ranger

— Janet Evanovich

I don't think any actor wants their children to follow them into the profession.

— Helena Bonham Carter

I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

— Karen Allen

Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life.

— Margot Fonteyn

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

— George Bernard Shaw

The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.

— Henryk Sienkiewicz