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.
Mary Oliver

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

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Brooks Adams

Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.
William Glasser

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.
Chili Davis

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
Henry R. Luce

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

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
Rahm Emanuel

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

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.
Dirk Bogarde

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.
Ian Botham

Stardom isn't a profession; it's an accident.
Lauren Bacall

Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
Thomas Moore

That's one great thing about my profession, traveling to locations.
Dean Stockwell

The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities, which are human beings.
Marc Bloch

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
Helmut Jahn