Profession Quotes

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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.… — Oscar Wilde
The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as â€˜Christiansâ€™ will… — Dallas Willard
Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing… — Tina Fey
He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Human nature is the same in all professions. — Laurence Sterne
He picked the wrong profession. Should've stayed a prostitute. He'd have made millions. - Cat — Jeaniene Frost
It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in… — John Wooden
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy. — Georges Simenon
The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they… — Daniel Quinn
The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive… — William Hazlitt
Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs. — Douglas Adams
If we want to grow as teachers -- we must do something alien to academic culture: we must talk to each other about our inner… — Parker J. Palmer
Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten… — George Orwell
Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded… — Neil Gaiman
That's good; don't deny it. Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar. In this profession, you can… — Ally Carter
By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most… — Wallace Stegner
Just know that itâ€™s fear that keeps most people working at a job. The fear of not paying their bills. The fear of being fired.… — Robert Kiyosaki
We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym… — Lionel Shriver
There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I… — Arthur Conan Doyle
...first thing is that I love you. And the second thing is that as much as I honor your former profession, I donâ€™t think your… — Shannon Hale

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