Professions Quotes

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My concern has always been that people who I portray, or the professions that I portray, are not embarrassed by my portrayal of them. — George Dzundza
Our cities with their swollen populations and cliff dwelling high-rise buildings are breeding places for loneliness. Neighborhoods crumble under the housing development bulldozers and families… — Allan Fromme
The two oldest professions in the world â€” ruined by amateurs. — Alexander Woollcott
My conclusion: Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well. No other occupation offers as many ways to help others learn and… — Clayton Christensen
The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them. — George Eliot
Ever judge of men by their professions. For though the bright moment of promising is but a moment, and cannot be prolonged, yet if sincere… — Robert Browning
Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease which, once contracted, cannot be got out of the system. If… — Monica Dickens
Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanitarian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The conservatives who saw… — Germaine Greer
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly. — Plato
The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see… — Herbert Hoover
Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who… — Calvin Coolidge
The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the… — Naomi Wolf
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing… — Betty Friedan
Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about human nature is… — Steven Pinker
When you make a bad pitch and the hitter puts it out of the park and you cost your team the game, it's a real… — Bob Feller
When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I… — Wilfred Owen
This reference to the Scots side of her ancestry is the first of two visual explorations into Tori Amos's diverse cultural past. As is the… — Kevyn Aucoin
All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing… — Thomas Berry
All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story. — Brian Swimme
Art and relligion are not professions: they are not occupations for which men can be paid. The artist and the saint do what they have… — Clive Bell

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