Profession Quotes

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I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says,… — Agatha Christie
By the way, were we to find life-forms on Venus, we would probably call them Venutians, just as people from Mars would be Martians. But… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and… — Vincent Van Gogh
Once more September marveled that even the Dodo knew what she wanted to be when she was grown. She simply could not think what she… — Catherynne M. Valente
In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe; but there is… — P D Ouspensky
Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and… — Jasper Fforde
A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession. — Charles Bukowski
Don't waste your time, do something worthwhile with it." But what can that mean: worthwhile? Finally to start realizing long-cherished wishes. To attack the error… — Pascal Mercier
Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the… — Oscar Wilde
So, I think I would say, enjoy the process of learning to dance. The process of our profession, and not its final achievement, is the… — Jacques d'Amboise
History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea. — Henry Adams
Golf is my real profession. Entertainment is just a sideline. I tell jokes to pay my greens fees. — Bob Hope
My profession is to always find God in nature. — Henry David Thoreau
Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion. — Duke Ellington
Music is like a mirror in front of you. You're exposing everything, but surely that's better than suppressing. ... You have to dig deep and… — Enya
By profession I am a Soldier & take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father. — Douglas MacArthur
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. — James Bryce
Historians of a generation ago were often shocked by the violence with which scientists rejected the history of their own subject as irrelevant; they could… — I. Bernard Cohen
Art critic! Is that a profession? When I think we are stupid enough, we painters, to solicit those people's compliments and to put ourselves into… — Edgar Degas
Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I tell my students):… — Suzanne Farrell

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