The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
George Eliot

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.
Diane Cilento

The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.
Candace Cameron

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers.
Marc Maron

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.
Andrew Sullivan

The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.
John Nelson Darby

The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.
Patrick Stewart

The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows.
Shuler Hensley

The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again.
Liv Ullmann

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James A. Baldwin

The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.
William Booth

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

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.
Sergei Eisenstein

The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.
Henryk Sienkiewicz

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

The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession.
Rick Dees

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

There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
Boris Yeltsin

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.
Gerald F. Lieberman