Profession Quotes

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When people, women included, hear that you are writing, they assume that it is simply a hobby to fill in the time between doing the… — Rachel Billington
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be… — David Brin
Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be unimaginably offensive, as… — Evelyn Waugh
I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one. — George Sand
My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas… — Henry David Thoreau
Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in fact quite normal;… — Bent Larsen
For me, chess is not a profession, it is a way of life, a passion. People may feel that I have conquered the peak and… — Viswanathan Anand
Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible,… — Nickolas Muray
Even if not a single picture is never published, they exist. And that means that we are recording the history of the human race. If… — Philip Jones Griffiths
The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in… — Mikhail Botvinnik
Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions. — Theodore Burghard Hurt Brameld
Cricket is a most precarious profession; it is called a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a batsman facing a… — John Arlott
Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but not the fruits of salvation… — Saint Augustine
No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation. — Horace
The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right. — George Meany
The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth. — Paul Krugman
Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and courtier. But the… — Augustin Thierry
Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession. — Napoleon Hill
Cooks are in some ways very much like actors; they must be fit and strong, since acting and cooking are two of the most exacting… — Andre Simon
I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature… — Anton Chekhov

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