To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
Robert Graves

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

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Henry Ward Beecher

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
Virginia Woolf

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

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.
William Standish Knowles

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
Irving R. Kaufman

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.
Charles Babbage

Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
Abraham Polonsky

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.
Geoffrey Holder

We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Well, in our business, it's a very tough profession.
Skitch Henderson

Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful.
Martin Yan

What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession.
Georges Bizet

When I joined the band, being that I was going to take this up as a profession, I realized that there were no two finer guitar players in the world that I'd rather play with.
Michael Davis

When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.
Joseph Lancaster

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.
James Carville

With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
Samuel E. Morison

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
Georges Simenon

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Jules Renard