Profession Quotes

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The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. — Abraham Lincoln
You should not confuse your career with your life. — Dave Barry
I think it must be apparent to every thinking mind that the noblest of all professions is that of teaching, and that upon the effectiveness… — David O. McKay
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such… — Sigmund Freud
What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not been spoken by… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My charactersâ€”I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters… — Georges Simenon
Arson is a respected profession among certain subcultures in Jersey, and the good ones don't get caught. The good ones channel lightning and mysterious acts… — Janet Evanovich
I've always said that you were too smart to have a profession. Smart people are hopeless in the face of anything actual. They are terrible… — Heidi Julavits
This isn't just a job. This is a service profession. We uphold the law, babe." Ranger — Janet Evanovich
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you… — Benjamin Franklin
Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the… — Rebecca West
Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest… — J D Salinger
...speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people… — Dan Simmons
Nice dress you're almost wearing. You ever think about changing professions?" -Ranger — Janet Evanovich
His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his professionâ€¦He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep inner… — Milan Kundera
Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including… — Michael Crichton
Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked. — Michael Gruber
To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before. We must search… — Alvin Toffler

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