Profession Quotes · Page 26

The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession.

— Rick Dees

High malice is almost inherent in the profession of historian.

— David Starkey

The problem in the church today is not the profession of faith, but it's possession.

— R. C. Sproul

Aviation is not so much a profession as it is a disease.

— Anonymous

Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions.

— David Hume

There are professions more harmful than industrial design but only a few of them

— Victor Papanek

Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.

— Edie McClurg

Turn your passion into a profit through your profession.

— Joseph Mercado

The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have…

— Rem Koolhaas

Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn…

— David Copperfield

Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.

— Dizzy Gillespie

The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination;…

— William Hazlitt

Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.

— Martin Filler

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there…

— Don McLean

Mathematicians grow very old; it is a healthy profession. The reason you live long is that you have pleasant thoughts. Math and…

— Dirk Jan Struik

People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

The ultimate objective [of comedy] is to get a laugh, so if you can get a laugh off the fact that you…

— Brian Regan

The good thing about rules is if you have to do an interview, and you make some rules for that interview, like,…

— Johan Philip Asbaek

I am for peace and all kinds of ways because the total reality is that you never quite, at least in my…

— Helen Mirren

Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it is frowned on…

— Anonymous

If people are teaching economics, they need to teach all the different disciplines, all the different schools in economics. They can't just…

— Charles Koch

Um, well my main profession is acting and music is what I love doing. It's kind of nice like that in a…

— Iwan Rheon

I was going to be a singer. If I hadn't been in my profession, I was going to be an Opera singer.…

— Jack LaLanne

In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.

— Rhys Ifans

A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation.

— Mark Twain

It took me a few years to realize I might want to get into acting as a profession.

— Bill Fagerbakke

By profession I am a Soldier & take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father.

— Douglas MacArthur

“Your money is just a condition to get my business, your professionalism is the price.”

— Amit Kalantri

They must have a feeling of do or die. It is such an overcrowded profession.

— Louise Jameson

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

— Georges Simenon

I'm not familiar with an unaccepting family. But in my profession, nothing can be foreign.

— Elizabeth Marvel

No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story.

— P. T. Barnum

Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away.

— William Lucking

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

— Margaret Heffernan

To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.

— Sonia Sotomayor

If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control.

— Anthony Stafford Beer

If you didn't join for the girls, choose another profession.

— Tom Conti

Being creative isn't confined to a specific set of professions -- everyone can and should be innovative.

— Paul McDonald

Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.

— Kathleen Raine