Profession Quotes

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Time, Children, Training

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.
Martin H. Fischer

Work, Yourself, Cannot

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
William Hazlitt

Work, Genius, Excel

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
William Hazlitt

Life, Success, Men

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.
Marilyn Manson

Time, Death, Live

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

Faith, Religion, Person

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
John Steinbeck

Business, Book, Writing

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.
Sydney Smith

Beauty, Through, Find

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.
Terry Pratchett

God, Home, Medical

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.
Jimmy Carter

Women, Decision, Military

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Life, Faith, Silent

One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course. This happens in every job, but because I have worked in comedy for twenty-five years, I can probably speak best about my own profession.
Conan O'Brien

Best, Job, Dream

There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a therapist in profession. She lets me talk to her like a therapist once in a while, and she does a great thing. Whenever I have a big dilemma, like this is a big problem in my life, she always says, 'Wow, you're going to have to figure that out.'
Louis C. K.

Life, Great, Woman

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
Dan Quayle

Children, Quite, Teach

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
W. H. Auden

Among, Cooks, Members

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Business, Law, Service

I never thought of politics as a profession.
Georgios A. Papandreou

Politics, Thought

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.
John le Carre

Lonely, Away, Rather

Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.
Kevin Costner

Life, Money, Care

I think it's imperative to follow your heart and choose a profession you're passionate about, and if you haven't found that 'spark' yet, if you're not sure what you want to do with your lives - be persistent until you do.
Steve Kerr

Heart, Until, Lives

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

Yourself, Writing, Else

Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.
Susan Orlean

Work, Experience, Children

With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.
Sienna Miller

Acting, Film, Public

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.
Margaret Sanger

Medical, Today, Past

I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.
Francesca Annis

Age, Yourself, Someone

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

Money, Writing, Ridiculous

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.
Charles Schumer

Teaching, Exalted

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

Faith, Good, Government

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.
Christina Ricci

Love, Successful, Show

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
Ralph Fiennes

Experience, Yourself, End

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