Profession Quotes · Page 5

I do not like football. It is just my profession.

— Gabriel Batistuta

Acting is an empty and usless profession.

— Marlon Brando

Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.

— Van Morrison

Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.

— David Mamet

Art is a profession, not a shrine.

— Elizabeth Hardwick

You should not confuse your career with your life.

— Dave Barry

Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Every professional was once an amateur.

— Alexander Pope

Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away.

— William Lucking

To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.

— Sonia Sotomayor

If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control.

— Anthony Stafford Beer

If you didn't join for the girls, choose another profession.

— Tom Conti

Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.

— Kathleen Raine

Being creative isn't confined to a specific set of professions -- everyone can and should be innovative.

— Paul McDonald

Education is such a noble profession, its a wonderful way to serve.

— Erin Gruwell

In Hungary, acting is a profession. In America, it is a decision.

— Bela Lugosi

Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is…

— Fay Weldon

Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

— John Maeda

What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one…

— George Crabbe

When you start writing things to try to persuade someone who's not already part of your guild or your profession that something…

— Paul Bloom

Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora…

— Steven Pinker

Coming out as gay was an easy enough matter for me, since I worked in a profession where being gay had a…

— Stephen Fry

Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession…

— Vincent Van Gogh

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their…

— Oscar W. Firkins

A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because…

— Charles Jencks

We need to identify the least effective or ineffective teachers and for those people we need to either quickly accelerate their practice…

— Michelle Rhee

I'm part of the first generation who grew up with manga [comics] and anime [animation], you know, after 'Godzilla.' I was absorbed…

— Satoshi Tajiri

It seems to me... that I have always lived! I possess memories that go back to the Pharoahs. I see myself very…

— Gustave Flaubert

We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world…

— Graham Greene

Outsiders always look for a reason to explain why they are not inside. They never look in the mirror. Let's face it,…

— Isaac Stern

To say that a schlemiel is a luckless person is to touch only the negative side. It is the schlemiel's avocation and…

— Maurice Samuel

I have known female whores who spoke very bitterly of their calling. "If they don't like my face, they can put a…

— Quentin Crisp

There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about…

— Steven Pinker

The essence of our profession is to give. What is it that we in the theater give? We give our body, voice,…

— Michael Chekhov

“So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel: First, Competition; Secondly, Dissidence; Thirdly, Glory. The first,…

— Thomas Hobbes

To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.…

— Alvin Toffler

That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power…

— Anonymous

A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When it becomes a part of every man's thinking that a single thought can change the polarity of our entire body toward…

— Walter Russell