Profession Quotes · Page 5

Acting, is not a profession for adults.

— Laurence Olivier

My career doesn't depend on painting Bill Clinton.

— Nelson Shanks

In limited professions there's boundless theft.

— William Shakespeare

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession.

— Georges Bizet

Cooks are an undervalued, awesome profession.

— Tom Douglas

Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You should not confuse your career with your life.

— Dave Barry

Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.

— David Mamet

To be a good designer, you would need to have deep and far-reaching interests outside of the profession.

— Stefan Sagmeister

The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

— Hermann Hesse

Even my family is shocked that I chose this profession.

— Kriti Sanon

One of the advantages of my profession is I come into contact with many people.

— Gerard Depardieu

I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

— Constance Baker Motley

Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.

— Eric Topol

If you enjoy shaming people, I suggest dentistry as a profession.

— Bonnie McFarlane

[The] noblest of [Arabs] united the love of arms with the profession of merchandise.

— Edward Gibbon

When I entered the profession, I didn't make a big deal of it. People didn't really know I was my parents' son.

— Tom Burke

The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.

— Umberto Eco

Good knowledge of an art or profession is essential to be successful in life. A man with insufficient knowledge will always cause…

— Vikrant Parsai

There's lots of interesting jobs in the profession besides acting, and I like to try and keep an eye on and understand…

— Sarah Sutton

Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a…

— Edith Stein

As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never…

— Lavrenti Lopes

Square astronaut, round hole. But somehow, I'd managed to push myself through it, and here was the truly amazing part: along the…

— Chris Hadfield

Cheating is baseball's oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it.

— Thomas Boswell

I fell in love with acting at a very young age, when I was 9 years old and started doing community theater.…

— Guy Wilson

It was only after university that I said to myself that I had to take the risk and have a serious go…

— Felicity Jones

There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there…

— James Payn

Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a…

— Vladimir Horowitz

Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession,…

— Yvor Winters

What if airplane pilots said, 'my first three years were a wreck'? We worry about the safety of people at the hands…

— Deborah

The proliferation of right-to-carry laws throughout the states has drawn plaintive complaints from the criminal element. They feel that it makes their…

— Jeff Cooper

[Bill Gates] wanted me to stay working at Microsoft, but I didn't think he could be CEO and we could have the…

— Melinda Gates

I once read about a meeting of economists who agreed that if their forecasts were 33 1/3 % correct, that was considered…

— Gerald M. Loeb

Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would…

— Ellen Goodman

Planners and designers should encourage as much diversity in human habitats as they find in animal habitats. It is not possible to…

— Tom Turner

We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while…

— Henry David Thoreau

When people think the issue can be solved, it becomes a moral imperative to be part of the solution. We can do…

— Wendy Kopp

Everyone is creative, but me and my colleagues are using a different definition of creativity than is implied when people say they…

— Michael Ray

In education, I'm going to try to find what works. One thing I want to do is improve the quality of teachers.…

— Charles Schumer

It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy…

— Adolf Hitler