Profession Quotes

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[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. — Arthur Conan Doyle
The qualities that one needs to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same as to be a good sculptor. In both professions one should… — Eduardo Chillida
One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among… — Nathanael Emmons
If you're in a good profession, it's hard to get bored, because you're never finished - there will always be work you haven't done. — Julia Child
As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. — Bruce Barton
Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest. — Ambrose Bierce
But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered… — Francis Bacon
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely… — H. L. Mencken
One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich… — P T Barnum
All professions are conspiracies against the laity. — George Bernard Shaw
With regard to the learned professions, little need be observed; they truly form no distinct interest in society . . . [discussing the landed, merchant,… — Alexander Hamilton
'I believe in oÂne God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image of the Deity… — Edward Gibbon
When the homebrewers stop entering the profession, and the backyard breweries are squeezed out, then it will become stagnant. — Greg Noonan
I drank to be funny, or sexy. I drank because I was afraid or happy or sad, and I drank for anything that required emotional… — Lynda Bellingham
Here's a six-foot-ten guy in sneakers and the lady's asking me, 'Profession?' — Jack McMahon
When all is said and done we simply must make teaching in this country an honorable profession-since it's in the classrooms of America where the… — Ernest L. Boyer
Victories come when their time comes. Often later than you wish. Patience is an essential quality of a coach's profession. — Viacheslav Platonov

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