If I had wanted only to make lots of money, I would have chosen a different profession. — Peter Stamm Copy Share Image
I would not encourage everyone to take up this profession. Not everyone is suited for any particular field. — John Cameron Copy Share Image
In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life. — Fernand Point Copy Share Image
Flying is the only active profession I could ever continue with enthusiasm after the War. — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
I just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
My opinion with respect to immigration is, that except of useful mechanics and some particular description of men and professions, there is… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Several of my favorite cousins and some of my best friends are lawyers, and I find the profession endlessly fascinating. — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope… — Kabir Bedi Copy Share Image
It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I am part of an age-old profession of musicianship. I believe these times require grounding, real-ness and fun. Let's do it. Whatever… — Jane Siberry Copy Share Image
I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
No matter what your profession – doctor, lawyer, architect, accountant – if you are an American, you better be good at the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The peoples of the old world have their cities built for times gone by, when railroads and gunpowder were unknown. We can… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
I was always a writer - working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
You have to have a certain single-mindedness if you want to reach the top of the profession, and I'm not sure if… — David Harewood Copy Share Image
Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality... Buildings… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Comedy started out as my hobby and then it became my profession. It's like being on call all the time, like having… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is… — William Booth Copy Share Image
The military profession, especially is the long-established great powers, is deeply pessimistic about the likelihood that people and countries will behave well… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
You can't start out at 20 in whatever your profession is and say, "I want to win an Olympic medal," or "I… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Go where the pleasure is in your writing. Go where the pain is. Write the book you would like to read. Write… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I'm keen to do as little or as much reading and watching as the director may advise, and often off that you… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
Any profession should have norms around the issue you raise. And, in the words of the great economic thinker Albert Hirschman, we… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Historians of a generation ago were often shocked by the violence with which scientists rejected the history of their own subject as… — I. Bernard Cohen Copy Share Image
All men are equal and free: society by nature, and destination, is therefore autonomous and ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image