Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching. — Michael Heseltine Copy Share Image
He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Do you know, every time I've seen you you've been like the Grim Reaper of goodwill and cheer. You should find another… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
Aviation is a dynamic profession. The rate of obsolescence of equipment is high and new aircraft have to be placed in inventory… — Keith B. McCutcheon Copy Share Image
I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other… — Gael Garcia Bernal Copy Share Image
Those who are compelled to paint by force, without being in the necessary mood, can produce only ungainly works, because this profession… — Titian Copy Share Image
“The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
The general public is easy. You don't have to answer to anyone; and as long as you follow the rules of your… — Moliere Copy Share Image
The whole thrust of science and the medical profession is to try and prevent it from happening, to try to prolong life,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The young people, they don't knock on the door politely and say "May I come in?" They barge in, they take your… — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies.… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
We have it in our heads that women only need to take up a certain amount of space and then we've done… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
Financial firms are sending their back-office jobs overseas. But what do fine artists do? They create something new, unexpected, and delightful that… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
I don't want to make vast generalizations about people who go into legal professions, but there are similarities in the barristers that… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then,… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
No matter what you do, no matter what your profession is, no matter how old you are, everybody deals with haters, — Ariana Grande Copy Share Image
If you want to push design into new areas, you have to work closely across the boundaries of people's trades and professions.… — Jeanne Gang Copy Share Image
I'm fully aware that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and… — Nickolas Muray Copy Share Image
We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance. — Miriam Defensor Santiago Copy Share Image
I never intended to be on television or in a movie. The theater was all I ever dreamed about, once I decided… — Scott Bakula Copy Share Image
I think it must be apparent to every thinking mind that the noblest of all professions is that of teaching, and that… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
One of the good things about the profession of being a professor, is that you also have time to do what interests… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.' There is no essential difference between… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
I'm the proverbial kid in the candy store. I'm a guy who is lucky enough to have been chosen to turn his… — Dick Latvala Copy Share Image
Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore,… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
Arms is a profession that, if its principles are adhered to for success, requires an officer do what he fears may be… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but… — Josh Brolin Copy Share Image
Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession… — Kim Gandy Copy Share Image
To me, first and foremost, basketball is a fun sport. It is a hobby, an interest. And second, it is a profession.… — Yao Ming Copy Share Image
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself. — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
