A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.
Betty Friedan

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
Henry David Thoreau

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
Plato

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
John Locke

I would hope we would begin a series of projects that would do more to bring the different parts of the university together in the study of Asia, for example, in the study of the professions in Asia.
William Kirby

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.
Constance Baker Motley

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.
Miriam Beard

Ladies and gentlemen, on the occasion of my election I received many letters from people representing all segments of the population and all professions, especially from the younger generation, linking my inauguration with great - far too great - expectations.
Gustav Heinemann

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
John Morley

My concern has always been that people who I portray, or the professions that I portray, are not embarrassed by my portrayal of them.
George Dzundza

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
Patrick J. Kennedy

Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
Arthur Erickson

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.
John Ralston Saul

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry B. Adams

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Brooks Adams

Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.
Linus Torvalds

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.
Junius

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.
Derek Bok

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.
Lawrence G. Lovasik