Profession Quotes · Page 10

Architecture is not a profession, it is a discipline.

— Raimund Abraham

For my profession, you need hair.

— Mick Hucknall

Acting isn't a profession, it's a way of living.

— Jeanne Moreau

Every professional was once an amateur.

— Alexander Pope

Art is a profession, not a shrine.

— Elizabeth Hardwick

Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.

— David Mamet

Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.

— Van Morrison

Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is not good for beauty that it should be a profession.

— Julia Ward Howe

The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.

— Alexander Woollcott

Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment.

— Alec-Tweedie

It's a profession where merit is not necessarily rewarded.

— Judd Nelson

Amateurs built the Ark; Professionals built the Titanic.

— Elizabeth May

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think that being a housewife is the most noble profession there is.

— Gavin McInnes

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

— Caroline B. Cooney

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

— Larry Wall

Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows…

— Douglas Adams

The three most important things for a sportscaster are knowledge of the game, a passion for sports and the profession, and the…

— Lesley Visser

Being a dandy is a condition rather than a profession. It is a defense against suffering and a celebration of life.

— Sebastian Horsley

My concern has always been that people who I portray, or the professions that I portray, are not embarrassed by my portrayal…

— George Dzundza

I love this profession, but God, it can just destroy people, and I don't want that to happen and become some monster.

— Alyson Hannigan

When a profession is protected by academic freedom and tenure, it tends to turn inward. To a large extent that's good.

— Martha C. Nussbaum

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

I have to say that when I first started singing, I didn't think it was a very noble profession. I worked for…

— Lesley Gore

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the…

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I…

— Suzanne Farrell

A considerable breakdown in my health has scared me from the anxieties, responsibilities and excitement of my profession; whether temporarily or permanently…

— Thomas Addison

I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the entertainment business. I'm…

— Shirley Eaton

I had a home birth because I really believe in the body's natural ability to give birth. The medical profession has kind…

— Sarah Shahi

My mother dedicated over fifty years of her life to the nursing profession, giving selflessly of her time, energy, and passion for…

— Ian Anthony Dale

Futurologists have been multiplying like flies since the day Herman Kahn made Cassandra's profession "scientific," yet somehow not one of them has…

— Stanislaw Lem

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe…

— Jonathan Swift

There are many in public life who deserve only our praise and admiration. But there are too many who are products of…

— Tim Soutphommasane

But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for…

— Francis Bacon

I feel like the reason I ended up becoming a playwright is because I never choose the right word. As a kid,…

— Annie Baker

“I think it is a duty I owe to my profession and to my sex to show that a woman has a…

— Harriet Brooks

Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision…

— Chris Hadfield

It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that…

— Cormac McCarthy

[May] this civic and social landmark [the Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center] ... be a constant reminder of the inspiring service that…

— Calvin Coolidge