Profession Quotes

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The best decision I ever made was to become a priest and I think the second best was to resign. — John O'Donohue
Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their… — Alexander Herzen
Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad. — John Edensor Littlewood
In every single job, in every single business, in every single profession - in whatever you do - there can be the satisfaction and the… — Wayne D. Dosick
HOMÅ’OPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession. — Ambrose Bierce
First, it must be a pleasure to study the human body the most miraculous masterpiece of nature and to learn about the smallest vessel and… — Rudolf Virchow
The trick to any profession is making it look easy. — Morgan Freeman
Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me. — Julia Child
Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their… — Honore de Balzac
I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create… — Christopher Pearse Cranch
In limited professions there's boundless theft. — William Shakespeare
A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation. — Mark Twain
If you're looking for work and have a choice of a job, choose a job that allows the opportunity for some creativity, and for spending… — Dalai Lama
Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every… — Pablo Picasso
I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred circumstances and my… — Edvard Munch
Every professional was once an amateur. — Alexander Pope
I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as… — Mary Oliver
All professions are... filled with demands. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering… — Sophia Loren
It was a dangerous profession I had chosen ... because no one likes a funny kid. In fact, adults are scared silly of them and… — Art Buchwald

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