Profession Quotes

Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.

The thing I really look for in this business is there are guys who are into football and there are guys who are in the profession for other reasons.

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.

Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away.

I feel like I delivered a blow, an unfortunate blow to a profession that not only did I personally love doing but that I value for society.

My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession.

I wanted to be a shoe designer, but I never thought it could be a profession. But what was the alternative? Doctor? Too dirty! Air-hostess? Maybe not! Then someone gave me a book on Roger Vivier, and, cheri, instantly I knew that was it!

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.

He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.

When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance.

I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.

Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real commitment to serving the best interests of their clients.

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?

The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.

Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.

Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.

Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.

Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.