Profession Quotes

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I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for several years. Which is trying to… — Rebecca De Mornay
Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them… — Will Oldham
Can I pay any higher tribute to a man [George Gaylord Simpson] than to state that his work both established a profession and sowed the… — Stephen Jay Gould
Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more… — Herbert Hoover
Acting is an empty and usless profession. — Marlon Brando
The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities. — Dennis Lehane
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
Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But… — Abraham Polonsky
Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in… — Archie Panjabi
The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the… — Bill Parcells
I never thought of politics as a profession. — George Papandreou
Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior… — Michael Polanyi
Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by… — Michael Polanyi
My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones. — Condoleezza Rice
The early part of my career I really struggled, getting turned down again and again. I was in debt, and it was horrible. And then… — Joely Richardson
Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it. — Chesley Sullenberger
It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another. — Dan Simmons
Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in… — Frederick Sanger
It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight. — Audrey Tautou
Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions. — Jaron Lanier

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