Profession Quotes · Page 4

Obedience is a hard profession.

— Pierre Corneille

I am a lawyer by profession.

— Kapil Sibal

Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.

— Aziz Ansari

Acting is a youthful profession.

— Kirk Douglas

Storytelling: the world's second oldest profession.

— Danny Harris

I work in a profession where you have to be calm.

— Serge Aurier

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

— Robert Graves

Cinema is a passion for me, not a profession.

— Joy Mathew

“Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine.”

— Sara Sheridan

Public scrutiny is a part of the profession. And I kind of enjoy it.

— Pulkit Samrat

Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.

— Ludwig von Mises

Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions.

— Theodore Burghard Hurt Brameld

Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.

— John Edensor Littlewood

Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.

— Benjamin Whichcote

“I was truly shocked to discover how bad the modern medical profession really is!”

— Steven Magee

Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

— Rosemary Mahoney

Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a…

— William Kittredge

Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest.…

— Nathan Myhrvold

No matter how knowledgeable, professional, powerful or wealthy we may be we will still need to be guided and corrected up to…

— Mufti Ismail Menk

I would argue that a majority of the horrors we face would not have happened if the accounting profession developed and enforced…

— Charlie Munger

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something…

— Mary Oliver

Actor is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven't really experienced any of that. Everyone's been really happy…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could…

— Lawrence Korb

I think a lot of us know when it's our time. No matter what profession you're in, you get a feeling. If…

— Nas

What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that…

— Rem Koolhaas

I developed physically and mentally to take such a big step in my life and in my profession, which is boxing, knowing…

— Orlando Cruz

Certainly teachers themselves can do a better job of letting the world know how hard their profession is, but frankly, they have…

— Taylor Mali

Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because unions…

— Andy Stern

My father and Mary Pickford were the reigning stars of not just Hollywood but of the world. Well, to bear my father's…

— Douglas Fairbanks, Jr

One needs to constantly read up, practice and work, irrespective of your profession. If I feel as an actor that I know…

— Sonam Kapoor

Painting is my profession, because it has always been the thing that interested me most. I'm of a certain age, I come…

— Gerhard Richter

Journalism is a fascinating job, you get to study people, you have a great responsibility, and it never grows old. I love…

— Paul Walter Hauser

Historians of a generation ago were often shocked by the violence with which scientists rejected the history of their own subject as…

— I. Bernard Cohen

Nothing will serve you better than a strong work ethic. Nothing. And it's something that you can't teach. You have to be…

— Robert Downey, Jr

We might hope that the law as a profession does not vanish, because justice may vanish with it - but we could…

— James Howard Kunstler

Don't waste your time, do something worthwhile with it." But what can that mean: worthwhile? Finally to start realizing long-cherished wishes. To…

— Pascal Mercier

The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a…

— Betty Friedan

If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their sense. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures.…

— Virginia Woolf

Let's be clear: all professions look bad in the movies. And there's a good reason for this. Movies don't portray career paths,…

— Michael Crichton

“[you’ll acquire] A certain amount of cynicism. This business works on you. When you were in law school you had some noble…

— John Grisham