Profession Quotes · Page 9

Journalism is not a profession, but a mission.

— Benito Mussolini

Being a musician is a noble profession.

— Paul Weller

My profession is called record production.

— Tony Visconti

My profession has helped me to grow up.

— Anonymous

“Respect lies in your work, not in your profession.”

— Ranu Das

I think that acting is a very humanizing profession.

— Kevin Spacey

My profession is to always find God in nature.

— Henry David Thoreau

Lobbying is the world's second - oldest profession.

— Bill Press

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

— W. H. Auden

It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

— Martin Filler

Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.

— Patricia Schroeder

When pursued with a pure heart, acting is an entirely selfless profession.

— Masiela Lusha

Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.

— Andy Hargreaves

Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There's no one there to help you.

— Lincoln Child

I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are…

— Henry David Thoreau

I'm a witch woman--high on tobacco and holy water. I'm a woman delighted with her disasters. They give me something to do.…

— Sandra Cisneros

In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The…

— Franz Grillparzer

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except…

— Ulysses S. Grant

There's nothing else I would rather do, unless there was a profession that involved cuddling bunny rabbits and kittens all day for…

— Kat Dennings

My father always used to say to me, it doesn’t matter what the profession is, but if they’re the best in their…

— Nicolas Cage

install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time.

— Ezra Pound

If you engage with the Holy spirit because you want to merely be effective in ministry, then you're developing professional intimacyand what…

— Bill Johnson

I have purpose. My life has meaning. I am engaged in a profession that I'm passionate about. I have some place to…

— Mackenzie Phillips

With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces…

— Anonymous

War Is A Racket : I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of…

— Smedley Butler

In the last century the practice of medicine has become no more than an adjunct to the pharmaceutical industry and the other…

— Vernon Coleman

I'm suffering from stage fright. I don't like making speeches. [...] I'm the kind of introvert actor who likes putting on other…

— Helena Bonham Carter

Benedict (Cumberbatch, who is playing Sherlock) looks amazing. He's still got a Sherlockian silhouette, with a large overcoat, but in a classic…

— Martin Freeman

Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm,…

— Hippocrates

I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and…

— Benjamin Disraeli

The late John Jacob Astor, a personage little given to poetic enthusiasm, had no hesitation in pronouncing my first grand point to…

— Herman Melville

“[you’ll acquire] A certain amount of cynicism. This business works on you. When you were in law school you had some noble…

— John Grisham

Let's be clear: all professions look bad in the movies. And there's a good reason for this. Movies don't portray career paths,…

— Michael Crichton

If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures.…

— Virginia Woolf

The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a…

— Betty Friedan

Don't waste your time, do something worthwhile with it." But what can that mean: worthwhile? Finally to start realizing long-cherished wishes. To…

— Pascal Mercier

We might hope that the law as a profession does not vanish, because justice may vanish with it - but we could…

— James Howard Kunstler