Profession Quotes · Page 26

I was able to reach the highest of the highs in my particular profession.

— Jerome Bettis

I am a homebody, something that lends itself to my profession.

— Patrick deWitt

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession.

— Vera Brittain

“Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.”

— Clay Shirky

I soon realized that the best thing I could do for the profession of human services was to get out of it.

— Mitch Kapor

“Every profession bears the responsibility to understand the circumstances that enable its existence.”

— Robert Gutman

“Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession.”

— Richard Diaz

I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.

— Rosanne Cash

It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot.…

— Katarina Witt

Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population…

— John Boyle O'Reilly

If it isn’t for the writing, we’ve got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let…

— Irving Thalberg

If you are a doctor or farmer, be sincere about your profession. If you can do what you do honestly, you will…

— Farhan Akhtar

There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions…

— Bobby Knight

In no other profession does the character and personality of a director play a more vital role in the development of young…

— Clair Bee

I'm still not sure what pulled me into the career I chose, even though, now, I can't imagine having done anything else.…

— Peter Gzowski

Of course, the slightest little mistake on the wire will deprive me of my life, so in that sense, yes, it is…

— Philippe Petit

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I…

— Kingsley Amis

Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

A duped newspaper or magazine could contend that a fiction-spouting journalist obtained part of his salary via fraud, and use a criminal…

— Brendan I. Koerner

The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful…

— Peter Zumthor

In the heart of every lawyer, worthy of the name, there burns a deep ambition so to bear himself that the profession…

— John W. Davis

Every profession has changed. Journalism has changed. Medicine has changed. Technology has changed and it evolves. The same is true of football.…

— Marv Levy

Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in…

— Robert Genn

Accuracy means something to me. It's vital to my sense of values. I've learned not to trust people who are inaccurate. Every…

— Charles Lindbergh

It benefits all artists to help one another - it raises the whole profession.

— T. Allen Lawson

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Racing is been my profession since I was 19 years old.

— Danica Patrick

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich.

— Benjamin Franklin

Better a man honor his profession than be honored by it.

— Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

— Anonymous

For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life.

— Wynn Bullock

I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

— Karen Allen

The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

This profession, I don't know why, you're supposed to be so serious and just be so proper.

— Lane Kiffin

Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life.

— Margot Fonteyn

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

— George Bernard Shaw

Nice dress you're almost wearing. You ever think about changing professions?" -Ranger

— Janet Evanovich

In art, I think it's not useful to be a professional of the profession. It will not give you something new.

— Albert Serra

Frustrations are going to be there in every profession you're in.

— Raphael Saadiq

I don't think any actor wants their children to follow them into the profession.

— Helena Bonham Carter