Profession Quotes · Page 22

Dress designing . . . is to me not a profession but an art,

— Elsa Schiaparelli

I am a very lucky man. I am living my life with my hobby as my profession.

— Jim Sullivan

The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious.

— David M. Kelley

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.

— Joni Mitchell

I thought a parent's job was to tell their children not to go into acting as a profession!

— Emily Mortimer

In this profession, you hurt the body a little. It's normal. Part of the job.

— Wanderlei Silva

My profession is to change myself according to my role and I work hard on it.

— Neena Gupta

You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.

— John H. Johnson

I love research and being educated. It's a great job being able to step into all kinds of professions and into other…

— Denzel Washington

It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie…

— Wayne Coyne

The religion is a personal thing in my life and fighting in the ring, it's boxing. It's my profession. God always gives…

— Manny Pacquiao

Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Acting's the best job there is. Pretending to be someone you're not is good fun. It's also a non-ageist profession, and you…

— Sean Pertwee

Acting has a strong sensual quality that I get such a... you say 'kick' in America? It's a fantastic profession in that…

— Erland Josephson

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

— Queen Elizabeth II

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need…

— George Bernard Shaw

When you're training, there's no preparation for the media aspect of the profession, which is like another job in itself. But when…

— Tara Fitzgerald

I am in the theatrical profession myself, my wife is in the theatrical profession, my children are in the theatrical profession.I had…

— Charles Dickens

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown…

— Colin Firth

The only difference between my work and the work of the whole medical profession is that I think we're in striking distance…

— Aubrey de Grey

It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group.…

— John Edensor Littlewood

I always like to make explicit the fact that before I went off not too long ago to fight in the trenches,…

— Tom Lehrer

Most actors and actresses are performative as people. It goes part and parcel with the profession and New York actors who are…

— Zoe Lister-Jones

There's a theory out there that if you're in a public profession you're fair game. I couldn't disagree with that idea more.…

— Anna Chlumsky

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

— Lawrence Bender

Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty.

— Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.

— Marissa Mayer

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

— Samuel Johnson

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

— George Orwell

In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty .

— Umberto Eco

I have friends in the industry, but I have to realise that this is a profession.

— Zayed Khan

Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm always really excited to try something new in my profession that I haven't done yet.

— Lea Thompson

I would say only be an actress if you genuinely feel the calling, because it's a tough profession.

— Naomie Harris

I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.

— P. T. Barnum

It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

— Francis Bacon

My father, Haridutt Bhatt, was a teacher by profession.

— Himani Shivpuri

The good thing is I picked a profession that I'm passionate about.

— Ainsley Earhardt