Professions Quotes

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Fortunately I've got a weak character, so I never did decide to dedicate myself to only one of my professions. And I'm very glad. After… — Mark Taimanov
Jack Bogle's passionate cry of Enough! contains a thought-provoking litany of life lessons regarding our individual roles in commerce and society. Employing a seamless mix… — David F. Swensen
We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can change the character… — Josh Hartnett
One of the most fruitless, irritating wastes in the world is arguing-the contentious, endless kind of arguing that is akin to quarreling, and causes feuding… — Richard L. Evans
It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks — Miriam
Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to… — John F. Kennedy
While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and… — Ginny Brown-Waite
The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the… — William Cobbett
It should be apparent that the belief in objectivity in journalism, as in other professions, is not just a claim about what kind of knowledge… — Michael Schudson
What if airplane pilots said, 'my first three years were a wreck'? We worry about the safety of people at the hands of these other… — Deborah
We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while the learning of… — Henry David Thoreau
Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well, — Clayton Christensen
Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because unions are disappearing and… — Andy Stern
Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more… — Samuel Johnson
Good teachers are to education what education is to all other professionsâ€”the indispensable element, the sunlight and oxygen, the foundation on which everything else is… — Lowell Milken
That education is the most important of all professions is a message the public should hear and understand. And, as importantly, a message that our… — Lowell Milken
We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is… — William Hazlitt
I'm with an old family" was the euphemism used to dignify the professions of white folks' cooks and maids who talked so affectedly among their… — Malcolm X
The qualities that made for success in a fighter-pilot seemed to be just those sturdy qualities that made for success in other professions; observation, initiative,… — Jim Bailey
Being creative isn't confined to a specific set of professions -- everyone can and should be innovative. — Paul McDonald

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