Profession Quotes

One of the advantages of my profession is I come into contact with many people.

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.

It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession.

They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I'm playing the biggest parts now that I'm older. That's probably right, because I wasn't ready for them before.

People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.

At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.

One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.

For so many years fashion was shrouded in mystery, this glamorous profession that people knew very little about, they thought it was so glamorous. It now has become so available, with the Internet, with shops like H&M and Target that do designer collaborations, so it's more available to everyone and that's created more interest.

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

My profession is called record production.

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

They must have a feeling of do or die. It is such an overcrowded profession.

I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.

I'm much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it's certainly not easy.

I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.

I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get.

I am a very lucky man. I am living my life with my hobby as my profession.

I would not encourage everyone to take up this profession. Not everyone is suited for any particular field.

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.

We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that.

Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.