Life is a mission, not a career. A career is a profession, a mission is a cause. A career asks, What's in… — Sean Covey Copy Share Image
According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
A sublime religion inevitably generates a strong feeling of guilt. There is an unavoidable contrast between loftiness of profession and imperfection of… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
[Non-performing songwriters] climb the mountain the first time, take their successes in stride, and when they tumble down the mountain, they just… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every commercial covers different ground, different ideas, and it's my profession to direct and to tell stories - for me, it's very… — Timur Bekmambetov Copy Share Image
What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she… — Virginia Woolf 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
Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who… — James T. Farrell Copy Share Image
The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
Apologists for the profession contend that lawyers are as honest as other men, but this is not very encouraging. — Ferdinand Lundberg Copy Share Image
What must it be like to live in Rush Limbaughs world? A world where when anyone other than conservative, white men attempts… — Nancy Giles Copy Share Image
Government provided free tuition tends more and more to produce a uniform conformist education, with college faculties ultimately dependent for their jobs… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a… — J. G. Ballard 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
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
You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
Aviation is a dynamic profession. The rate of obsolescence of equipment is high and new aircraft have to be placed in inventory… — Keith B. McCutcheon Copy Share Image
Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked. — Michael Gruber Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, you tend to get pigeonholed to certain genres, and then when you try to do something different, it's not always… — Renny Harlin Copy Share Image
When Americans are asked to rank professions in terms of honesty and ethics, insurance agents routinely end up near the bottom of… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
I don't approve of the John Waynes and the Gary Coopers saying "Shucks, I ain't no actor - I'm just a bridge… — Humphrey Bogart Copy Share Image
The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
I feel like the reason I ended up becoming a playwright is because I never choose the right word. As a kid,… — Annie Baker Copy Share Image