Profession Quotes
1155 quotes by 963 authors
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Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.
— Samuel Hopkins Adams
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Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Lo, I am the most stupendous in the land at my particular profession.
— Chris Jericho
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Take lots of time for yourself, discovering yourself-pursue not only a profession but other life passions, I always make time to rock climb or hike…
— Sarah Silverman
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Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That's because, when you invest in real estate,…
— Robert Kiyosaki
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The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the…
— Aldous Huxley
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The American people rightly look to their military leaders to be not only skilled in the technical aspects of the profession of arms, but to…
— J. Lawton Collins
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Quiet time and solitude are vital to helping me keep perspective. I consider myself fortunate to have so much quiet built into my profession. I…
— Thomas Kinkade
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Cheating is baseball's oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it.
— Thomas Boswell
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Love is never abstract. It does not adhere to the universe or the planet or the nation or the institution or the profession, but to…
— Wendell Berry
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To me designing has never been a job or profession. It's a way of life, like a priest or rabbi.
— Ed Benguiat
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In any profession, there are always ups and downs.
— Sachin Tendulkar
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I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved in order to stand up for my…
— Ronald Reagan
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The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man…
— Ayn Rand
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When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law.
— Leon Jaworski
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Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.
— Halle Berry
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In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those…
— Daniel H. Pink
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I'm fully aware that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines…
— Colin Firth
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