quotes about Profession
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It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
-- Al McGuire -
Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment.
-- Alec-TweedieSource : Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (Ethel) (1932). “Me and Mine: A Medley of Thoughts and Memories”
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Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
-- Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe -
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You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control
-- Anthony Stafford BeerSource : "Applied cybernetics: its relevance in operations research" by A. Ghosal, (p. 2), 1978.
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No matter what you do, no matter what your profession is, no matter how old you are, everybody deals with haters,
-- Ariana GrandeSource : Thomas L. Friedman (2007). “The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century”, p.15, Macmillan
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Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
-- Arthur Erickson -
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Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness.
-- Arthur HoneggerSource : 1951 I Am a Composer.
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I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.
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Im my profession you have to mystify the enemy.
-- Bernard Law Montgomery -
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Her profession's her religion, her sin is lifelessness.
-- Bob Dylan -
You can find the intangibles of being a quarterback in almost every profession in the world. There's nothing like it.
-- Brady Quinn -
Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.
-- Brendan Behan -
Farming is a profession of hope
-- Brian BrettSource : Brian Brett (2009). “Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life”, p.16, Greystone Books Ltd
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The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.
-- Candace CameronSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.
-- Cate Blanchett -
As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.
-- Charlton HestonSource : "Charlton Heston Makes Statement About Alzheimer's". Press Conference, transcripts.cnn.com. August 09, 2002.
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Lo, I am the most stupendous in the land at my particular profession.
-- Chris Jericho -
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You know, I consistently change in my own life so the roles I'm suitable for also change, and that's a really nice thing about this profession.
-- Chris KleinSource : "Q&A: Chris Klein on 'American Reunion' and His Hero Harrison". Interview with Elizabeth Durand, www.mtv.com. July 09, 2012.
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Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks.
-- Christy Turlington -
In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.
-- Clay Shirky -
I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.
-- Constance Baker Motley -
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I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.
-- Cy Coleman -
But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
-- Dabney Coleman -
The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.
-- Daniel Quinn -
Storytelling: the world's second oldest profession.
-- Danny Harris -
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I was in a profession that received a lot of media.
-- Darrell Royal -
Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.
-- David Mamet -
Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession.
-- David Talbot -
I am not confident around people. Maybe, I have become slightly more confident over the years because of my profession.
-- Deepika Padukone -
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The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.
-- Derek Bok -
So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.
-- Dirk BogardeSource : Dirk Bogarde (2012). “A Particular Friendship”, p.23, A&C Black
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Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.
-- Douglas Coupland -
Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
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Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.
-- Edie McClurg -
There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
-- Edith Stein -
I assure you my professions never go beyond my intentions ...
-- Elizabeth InchbaldSource : Elizabeth Inchbald (1808). “The British Theatre: Or, a Collection of Plays, which are Acted at the Theaters Royal ... : With Biographical and Critical Remarks. Such things are. Every one has his fault. Wifes as they were. Lover's vows. To marry or not to marry”
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Amateurs built the Ark; Professionals built the Titanic.
-- Elizabeth May -
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install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time.
-- Ezra Pound -
Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living.
-- Fay WeldonSource : Source: www.slate.com
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I had turned my anxiety into my profession.
-- Francois JacobSource : François Jacob (1995). “The Statue Within: An Autobiography”, p.9, CSHL Press
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You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.
-- Frederik PohlSource : Frederik Pohl, Cyril M. Kornbluth (1984). “Venus, Inc”
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This is a profession in which how you look dictates whether or not you get work, so a model has to be healthy.
-- Gabriella Wilde -
Everyone, at any age, has talents that aren't fully developed-even those who reach the top of their profession.
-- Garry Kasparov -
Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
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The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right.
-- George Meany -
I never thought of politics as a profession.
-- George Papandreou -
My profession?consists of bringing truths nearer to the point where they explode. 396
-- Hans Werner HenzeSource : 1982 Music and Politics.
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Every life is a profession of faith ...
-- Henri Frederic Amiel -
My profession is to always find God in nature.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
-- Henry R. Luce -
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Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.
-- Horace -
The world cannot always understand one's profession of faith, but it can understand service.
-- Ian Maclaren -
Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.
-- Jacques BarzunSource : "Age of Reason". The New Yorker, (p. 103), October 22, 2007.
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Making chocolate is a way of life, not a profession,
-- Jacques Torres -
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When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.
-- James Carville -
I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.
-- Jeff Koons -
Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.
-- Jeffrey TateSource : "Jeffrey Tate: 'I've had to fight all my life'" by Tom Service, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2011.
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You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.
-- John H. Johnson -
The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.
-- John Nelson Darby -
Parenting is the most important profession in the world.
-- John Wooden -
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It is not good for beauty that it should be a profession.
-- Julia Ward HoweSource : Julia Ward Howe (1880). “Modern Society”
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I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
-- Karen Allen -
I wasn't sued out of medicine, I wasn't arbitrated out of the profession.
-- Ken Jeong -
The thing about 'Soft Machine' and me was that I never considered another profession.
-- Kevin AyersSource : "Kevin Ayers: 'I never considered another profession' - one of his final interviews". Interview with Kate Mossman, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2013.
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I think that acting is a very humanizing profession.
-- Kevin Spacey -
Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
-- Kingman Brewster, Jr.Source : Address to the British Institute of Management, December 13, 1977.
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Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
-- Lauren Bacall -
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Human nature is the same in all professions.
-- Laurence Sterne -
Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.
-- Lawrence Bender -
Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]
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I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.
-- Marissa Mayer -
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Soldiering is a very important profession, is it not?
-- Mike Jackson -
Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.
-- Moshe Safdie -
Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.
-- Natasha Leggero -
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Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many people.
-- Noah Baumbach -
Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.
-- Octavia Butler -
Architecture is much more than a profession; It's a discipline.
-- Odile Decq -
I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.
-- P. T. Barnum -
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Writing is a crummy profession, but a good hobby.
-- Paavo Haavikko -
I read once that the true mark of a pro — at anything — is that he understands, loves, and is good at even the drudgery of his profession.
-- Paul HalmosSource : "I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography". Book by Paul Halmos, 1985.
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Money lending is a horrible profession. If we are to call it otherwise it is lawful plundering.
-- Periyar E. V. RamasamySource : Collected works of Periyar E.V.R., p. 514, 2005.
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Architecture is not a profession, it is a discipline.
-- Raimund Abraham -
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Frustrations are going to be there in every profession you're in.
-- Raphael Saadiq -
The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession.
-- Rick Dees -
What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it.
-- Robert Duvall -
In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.
-- Robert Genn -
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To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
-- Robert GravesSource : Reply to questionnaire, "The Cost of Letters", in Horizon magazine, September 1946.
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Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.
-- Russell Crowe -
my present Profession is Physick - Now, when my Pockets are full, I cure a Patient in three Days; when they are empty, I keep him three Months.
-- Susanna CentlivreSource : Susanna Centlivre (1872). “The wonder. The man bewitch'd. Gotham election. Wife well managed. Bickerstaff's burial. Bold stroke for a wife. Artifice”, p.97
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Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions.
-- Theodore Burghard Hurt Brameld -