Profession Quotes
1155 quotes by 963 authors
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Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion, the…
— Sheila Jeffreys
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Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.
— Dizzy Gillespie
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We recognize a tree by its fruit, and we ought to be able to recognize a Christian by his action. The fruit of faith should…
— Ignatius of Antioch
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Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.
— Harriet Martineau
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I'm going with the flow. I feel when the time is right to stop, it will be flashing in neon lights for me, like this…
— Lindsay Davenport
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Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
— Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.
— Caroline B. Cooney
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I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession. I love all of it, thinking up the plots,…
— Caroline B. Cooney
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Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or…
— Edith Stein
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There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
— Edith Stein
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Rather than a profession, photography has always been a passion for me, a passion closer to an obsession.
— Marc Riboud
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I am troubled by the devaluing of the word 'design’. I find myself now being somewhat embarrassed to be called a designer. In fact I…
— Dieter Rams
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Education is such a noble profession, its a wonderful way to serve.
— Erin Gruwell
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If architecture is going to nudge, cajole, and inspire a community to challenge the status quo into making responsible changes, it will take the subversive…
— Samuel Mockbee
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I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making…
— Maurice Ashley
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I don't think of myself as a critic or teacher either, but simply - and at the obvious risk of disingenuousness - as someone who…
— Richard Gilman
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Law is a very addictive profession.
— George Carman
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It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out…
— David Douglass
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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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We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you…
— Anna Deavere Smith
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