Profession Quotes · Page 23

I eventually thought, this is the only thing I could do as a profession, I can't really do anything else.

— Colin Hanks

Your profession should give you enjoyment, but it should never be your life.

— Rita Tushingham

Some people find that if they share a profession with their partner, they dont talk about anything else.

— Pam Ferris

I am really glad to be working at the profession that I love.

— Marc Jacobs

Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.

— Simone de Beauvoir

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

— William Hogarth

Politics in America has become a Jewish profession, just like arts and the law...

— Ira Forman

I do not think that my life starts and ends with films. I do not use my profession as my identification.

— Mahima Chaudhry

I strongly believe that journalism is one of the most noble professions, because without an informed world, and without an informed society,…

— Christiane Amanpour

While I reiterate the professions of my dependence upon Heaven... I will observe that... no man who is profligate in his morals...…

— George Washington

The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession.

— Simon Cowell

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out…

— Martin H. Fischer

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what…

— Pablo Picasso

Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about…

— Kevin Costner

I love this profession, but God, it can just destroy people, and I don't want that to happen and become some monster.

— Alyson Hannigan

Being a dandy is a condition rather than a profession. It is a defense against suffering and a celebration of life.

— Sebastian Horsley

Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a…

— Criss Angel

I very often get that question: 'What is your real profession?' That's because in Sweden, it is 'not allowed' to have more…

— Erland Josephson

Acting is a creative process, and directing and music. I think creative people - and I take myself as a creative person…

— Anthony Hopkins

I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport…

— Vicente del Bosque

Accuracy means something to me. It's vital to my sense of values. I've learned not to trust people who are inaccurate. Every…

— Charles Lindbergh

The ethical practices of lawyers are probably no worse than those of other professions. Lawyers bring some of the trouble on by…

— Lawrence M. Friedman

Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The…

— Germaine Greer

Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of…

— Calvin Coolidge

Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

— Brooks Adams

Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.

— Kurt Vonnegut

My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.

— John Grisham

“Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric.”

— Sara Sheridan

Destiny has put me in the profession that has kept me happy, and where I was supposed to be.

— Dalip Tahil

I am a very lucky man. I am living my life with my hobby as my profession.

— Jim Sullivan

Dress designing . . . is to me not a profession but an art,

— Elsa Schiaparelli

My profession is to change myself according to my role and I work hard on it.

— Neena Gupta

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.

— Joni Mitchell

I thought a parent's job was to tell their children not to go into acting as a profession!

— Emily Mortimer

The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious.

— David M. Kelley

In this profession, you hurt the body a little. It's normal. Part of the job.

— Wanderlei Silva

In Hungary, acting is a profession. In America, it is a decision.

— Bela Lugosi

Education is such a noble profession, its a wonderful way to serve.

— Erin Gruwell

The best decision I ever made was to become a priest and I think the second best was to resign.

— John O'Donohue

My profession?consists of bringing truths nearer to the point where they explode. 396

— Hans Werner Henze