Profession Quotes

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I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the liberal arts. It… — Ronald Reagan
If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your… — Loren Eiseley
When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of… — William Styron
It may be true that there is no God here, but there must be one not far off, and at such a moment one feels… — Vincent Van Gogh
What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one selected race, Of… — George Crabbe
To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a… — Phyllis McGinley
I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done… — Leopold Stokowski
You know when I decided to become professional - that means to expose yourself naked to the world with the other creative minds - I… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. — Joni Mitchell
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art. — Paul Cezanne
Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm , reverence, obedience, and perseverance.… — Cennino Cennini
What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession. — Dorothy L. Sayers
Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching. — Michael Heseltine
It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for… — Ad Reinhardt
Though there is antipathy in the human heart to the gospel of Christ, yet when Christians make their good work shine, all admire them. It… — David Livingstone
As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many. — Charlton Heston
I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country... — Susan Cain
Art is not a career - it's a life. — Andy Goldsworthy
Square astronaut, round hole. But somehow, I'd managed to push myself through it, and here was the truly amazing part: along the way, I'd become… — Chris Hadfield
I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art. — Jeff Koons

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