Professions Quotes

169 quotes by 152 authors

There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as… — James Payn
The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities. — Dennis Lehane
Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions. — Jaron Lanier
The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions. — Derek Bok
Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors. — John Ralston Saul
A sexual athlete is not likely to find sufficient energy for work of another athletic kind, and the acting of great parts most definitely was… — Laurence Olivier
[May] this civic and social landmark [the Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center] ... be a constant reminder of the inspiring service that has been rendered… — Calvin Coolidge
In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the… — Constance Baker Motley
In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions. — Rhys Ifans
It almost looks like analysis were the third of those 'impossible' professions in which one can be quite sure of unsatisfying results. The other two,… — Sigmund Freud
Architecture is changing faster than some other professions. — Moshe Safdie
All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own. — Oscar W. Firkins
As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my… — Lavrenti Lopes
Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their… — Alexander Herzen
Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their… — Honore de Balzac
In limited professions there's boundless theft. — William Shakespeare
Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every… — Pablo Picasso
All professions are... filled with demands. — Rainer Maria Rilke
What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one selected race, Of… — George Crabbe
It would be bypassing the issue to say that the artist's business is to work with this and that material or manipulate the findings of… — Hans Haacke

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