The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
We have many responsibilities, and one cannot expect the full blessings of a kind Providence if he neglects any major duty. A… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Almost every profession has an outstanding training ground. The military has West Point, music has Juilliard, and the culinary arts has The… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
There is nothing more pitiable than a soulless, sapless, shriveled church, seeking to thrive in a worldly atmosphere, rooted in barren professions,… — George C. Lorimer Copy Share Image
I saw the end of the general magazine business at the end of the '70s, and I knew I had to move… — Lawrence Schiller Copy Share Image
Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in… — David Hume Copy Share Image
To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience. Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I didn't think at all as a young child that music would be my profession. It was just something that one did… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale,… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The concept of an "architect" is one of the oldest professions in the world. Whereas, some professions, such as a "lawyer", have… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I'm an artist because that's what I was best at as a kid. It was fun... I continue to be an artist...… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
I've been in contact with music since I was four or five years old through my father, because of the interest he… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
We have Trumpist (ph) tendencies in Europe. Look up Marine Le Pen in France. Look at the Five Star Movement headed by… — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
Umpiring is best described as the profession of standing between two seven-year olds with one ice cream cone. — Ron Luciano Copy Share Image
But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel… — T. Allen Lawson Copy Share Image
It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call… — Jan Peacock Copy Share Image
Victories come when their time comes. Often later than you wish. Patience is an essential quality of a coach's profession. — Viacheslav Platonov Copy Share Image
When I joined the band, being that I was going to take this up as a profession, I realized that there were… — Michael Davis Copy Share Image
Giving is a universal opportunity. Regardless of your age, profession, religion, income bracket, and background, you have the capacity to create change. — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Copy Share Image
It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
I think it's the same to be an actress anywhere because the profession is about attitudes towards events - it is a… — Zhou Xun Copy Share Image
No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards;… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
“[I]n any profession the highest order of work is achieved, not by fussy empirical demands for 'something to be done,' but by… — Henry Whitehead Copy Share Image
The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as,… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“I've always regarded therapy more as a calling than a profession, a way of life for people who care about others.” — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
When it comes to government policy, can we please stop using words like "architect"? Telling people what to do is not a… — David Burge Copy Share Image
A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when… — Mary Augusta Ward Copy Share Image
When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The American people rightly look to their military leaders to be not only skilled in the technical aspects of the profession of… — J. Lawton Collins Copy Share Image
If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and… — Leonard Bishop Copy Share Image