Profession Quotes · Page 13

I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

— Halle Berry

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

— Edward Gibbon

Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.

— Confucius

Acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.

— Marilyn Monroe

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

— Bonnie McFarlane

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

— Eric Topol

Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.

— Moss Hart

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

— Constance Baker Motley

It seems to me that the bane of our country is a profession of faith either with no basis of real belief,…

— James Russell Lowell

I am not allowed by my profession to diagnose somebody from a distance, but one can observe certain symptoms of sociopathy in…

— Martha Stout

Almost anyone who has ever attained any kind of public stature in his or her profession can expect sometimes to see a…

— Louella Parsons

Even in high school, music was just a really fun thing on the side. I don't think I grasped the fact that…

— Sigrid

No one will argue that writing is an easy profession. Getting someone to pay you for your words isn’t easy. But there…

— Ryan Holiday

Astronauts were not the impulsive daredevils so dear to the stereopticonloving public. They couldn't afford to be. The hazards of the profession…

— Eric Frank Russell

While other professions are concerned with changing the environment to suit the weakened body, chiropractic is concerned with strengthening the body to…

— B. J. Palmer

A man is a better citizen of the United States for being also a loyal citizen of his state and of his…

— Louis D. Brandeis

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to…

— Thomas Jefferson

Art and relligion are not professions: they are not occupations for which men can be paid. The artist and the saint do…

— Anonymous

Like the characters in Chekhov, they have no reserves -– you learn the most intimate secrets. You get an impression of a…

— Graham Greene

I had already been a young singer. And once, as a profession, I was a young singer, what you would call a…

— Charlemagne Palestine

The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is…

— William Bolitho

From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a container already built for us to fit inside: A social…

— Paige Bradley

A lot of people celebrate their past, but I don't look at it all. I don't Google myself; I focus on the…

— Sean Maguire

I find it irresponsible to go, 'She's an actress, what does she know?' That means if you're a dentist, what do you…

— Eva Longoria

It is the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator…

— John Adams

Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly…

— Irvin D. Yalom

I think we all understand disappointing yourself. Especially in the acting profession, which is probably similar to a political career, even the…

— Corey Stoll

Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease which, once contracted, cannot be got out of…

— Monica Dickens

Ever judge of men by their professions. For though the bright moment of promising is but a moment, and cannot be prolonged,…

— Robert Browning

This does not mean that the profession is about to abandon Darwin forever or indorse [sic] my views publicly. The situation remains…

— Norman Macbeth

By now, legions of tireless essayists and op-ed columnists have dressed feminists down for making such a fuss about entering the professions…

— Mary Blakely

Art is created to make us, to make our passage through the world better, fruitful - and I would say that every…

— Chinua Achebe

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

— Gerard Depardieu

Even my family is shocked that I chose this profession.

— Kriti Sanon

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

— Hermann Hesse

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

— Stefan Sagmeister

I do this profession. I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people.

— Gerard Depardieu

Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

— Dick Cavett

Education is such a noble profession, it's a wonderful way to serve.

— Erin Gruwell

I was supposed to choose apractical profession, but this was simply unbearable to me.

— Albert Einstein