Professions Quotes

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The painting world is awash with people who cannot paint. This is a condition that would not be tolerated in other professions such as Dentistry,… — Robert Genn
Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting. — Anjelica Huston
For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no… — Jean de la Bruyere
That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power of those who… — William Hazlitt
Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go… — Henry Louis Gates
A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate. — Tom Colicchio
A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for… — Evan Davis
From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes.… — Roger Ebert
The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers. — Umberto Eco
Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America. — Arthur Erickson
No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions. — Patrick J. Kennedy
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions… — John Locke
The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition… — Lawrence G. Lovasik
I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private. — Chris Martin
Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated… — Dee Dee Myers
What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was… — Camille Paglia
In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing. — Peter Singer
When Americans are asked to rank professions in terms of honesty and ethics, insurance agents routinely end up near the bottom of the list -… — James Surowiecki

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