Profession Quotes · Page 54

The smartest people in Indianapolis became teachers [during the Great Depression]. And, for once, there was something for women to do because…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I am a lawyer by profession.

— Kapil Sibal

You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and…

— Satish Kumar

I don't have regrets of being an architect. You are looking continuously - to the leaves of the trees, the shapes of…

— Rafael Moneo

In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession.

— Rashida Jones

Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well,

— Clayton Christensen

Profound responsibilities come with teaching and coaching. You can do so much good–or harm. It’s why I believe that next to parenting,…

— John Wooden

There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by…

— Charlie Kaufman

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

“Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine.”

— Sara Sheridan

You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of…

— George Lucas

Designing is not a profession but an attitude... Thinking in relationships.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

I was able to reach the highest of the highs in my particular profession.

— Jerome Bettis

There are some militarists who say: ‘We are not interested in politics but only in the profession of arms.’ It is vital…

— Mao Zedong

Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of…

— Jonathan Kozol

I developed physically and mentally to take such a big step in my life and in my profession, which is boxing, knowing…

— Orlando Cruz

Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession,…

— Julian Assange

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional…

— Georges Simenon

No matter how you total success in the coaching profession it all comes down to a single factor - talent. There may…

— John Wooden

Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting.

— Anjelica Huston

“To do what you love first find what you love.”

— Amit Kalantri

When I was contemplating medical school after graduating from Knox, several people suggested that nursing was a more suitable profession for women.…

— Mary Pope Osborne

[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on…

— Karl Marx

[Photojournalism] really is the only branch of photography that's a credit to our profession. We see, we understand; we see more, we…

— Philip Jones Griffiths

To say that secular means irreligious implies that all the arts and sciences are irreligious, and is very like saying that all…

— John Stuart Mill