Our Profession Quotes
32 quotes by 31 authors
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[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Nothing is known in our profession by guess; and I do not believe, that from the first dawn of medical science to the present moment,…
— Astley Cooper
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To be married in our profession is not an easy thing. Theres too many beautiful people around, very interesting people. Its just a matter of…
— Antonio Banderas
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Walter Beasley is an anomaly: a successful performing musician who possesses the rare skill of understanding the musical process beyond the intuitive. This special ability…
— Branford Marsalis
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There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.
— Luciano Pavarotti
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Our profession is built on the bedrock of trust - the trust that must inherently exist among Soldiers, and between Soldiers and their leaders to…
— Raymond T. Odierno
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Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything…
— George Lois
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I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years…
— Vicente del Bosque
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If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would seem incumbent upon…
— Simon Greenleaf
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Our words and our works are evidence that our profession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is true.
— Alistair Begg
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We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor…
— Charles Spurgeon
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We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you…
— Douglas MacArthur
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The essence of our profession is to give. What is it that we in the theater give? We give our body, voice, feelings, will, imagination…
— Michael Chekhov
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Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels... Let us take the profit, the…
— Norman Bethune
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I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or…
— Ridley Pearson
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Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.
— Christiane Amanpour
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Frankly, to be honest, I hadn't worked for two years before 'Murphy Brown.' It's a nice illusion now to think of all of us as…
— Charles Kimbrough
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What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make…
— Boris Spassky
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There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are…
— Charlie Kaufman
Who Wrote These Our Profession Quotes
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