Profession Quotes

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Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more… — Samuel Johnson
Just because you cannot realize your highest aspirations in work does not mean you have chosen wrongly, or are not called to your profession, or… — Timothy Keller
People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession. — Estelle
No it was not the novelty, and it was not the danger and the adventure (although these had their charm). It was certainly not a… — Pauline Gower
Are you not aware that my profession involves beating the living hell out of some poor-unfortunate wearing nothing more than a pair of green lycra… — Sheamus
Good teachers are to education what education is to all other professionsâ€”the indispensable element, the sunlight and oxygen, the foundation on which everything else is… — Lowell Milken
That education is the most important of all professions is a message the public should hear and understand. And, as importantly, a message that our… — Lowell Milken
Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together. — Brendan Behan
You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession… — Benjamin Disraeli
You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love. — John H. Johnson
The profession of the law of which he [a judge] is a part is charged with the articulation and final incidence of the successive efforts… — Learned Hand
The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession. — George Bernard Shaw
Filming this drama made me realise how noble the nursing profession really is -- from the selfless dedication to the care and love for patients.… — Rebecca Lim
Where else, in a non-totalitarian country, but in the political profession is the individual expected to sacrifice all-including his own career-for the national good? — John F. Kennedy
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice. — Marcel Proust
We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is… — William Hazlitt
I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board of other partners… — John Updike
The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as the adult companion… — Gloria Steinem
I'm with an old family" was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their… — Malcolm X

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