176 Quotes on Profession

• Mistakes are the stepping stones towards perfection.

  Author: Sophia Jones

• And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.

  Author: Florenz Ziegfeld

• In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

  Author: Loretta Young

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

  Author: Martin Yan

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

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

  Author: Isaac Watts

• In any profession it gets to be a grind.

  Author: Denzel Washington

• My profession is called record production.

  Author: Tony Visconti

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

  Author: Liv Ullmann

• Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks.

  Author: Christy Turlington

• Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director.

  Author: Michael Thomas

• It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

  Author: Twyla Tharp

• I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

  Author: William Taft

• One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge.

  Author: Kiefer Sutherland

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

  Author: Dean Stockwell

• 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.

  Author: Patrick Stewart

• Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

  Author: Robert Stevenson

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

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

  Author: John Steinbeck

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

  Author: John Steinbeck

• One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

  Author: Edith Stein

• I don't do stunts and I don't think many actors do. For an actor to say they do their own stunts I don't think is very respectful of the profession of stunt men and women.

  Author: Nick Stahl

• Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.

  Author: Robert Stack

• Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.

  Author: Boris Spassky

• Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it.

  Author: James Spader

• 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.

  Author: Sydney Smith

• It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

  Author: Dan Simmons

• I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.

  Author: Simone Signoret

• A man must be strong in that profession, he must have vigor of body and mind, yet I am all out of breath if I walk up a hill; I have not the heart to crush even a fly.

  Author: Gregorio Sierra

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

  Author: Henryk Sienkiewicz

• Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

  Author: George Shaw

• Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

  Author: George Shaw

• My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

  Author: Charles Schumer

• 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.

  Author: Margaret Sanger

• Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession.

  Author: Frederick Sanger

• I was in a profession that received a lot of media.

  Author: Darrell Royal

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

  Author: Jean Rousseau

• Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

  Author: Will Rogers

• I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.

  Author: James Rogers

• They do say that the profession gets increasingly difficult, but my career seems to have been inside out. I'm playing the biggest parts now that I'm older. That's probably right, because I wasn't ready for them before.

  Author: Diana Rigg

• Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?

  Author: Jef Richards

• The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.

  Author: Publius Renatus

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

  Author: Jules Renard

• In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

  Author: B. Reece

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

  Author: Ronald Reagan

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

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

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

  Author: Dan Quayle

• I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training.

  Author: Joseph Pulitzer

• 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?

  Author: Abraham Polonsky

• Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession.

  Author: Michael Polanyi

• Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing.

  Author: Michael Polanyi

• It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.

  Author: Amy Poehler

• Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

  Author: Pablo Picasso

• There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.

  Author: Luciano Pavarotti

• People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.

  Author: Estelle Parsons

• Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

  Author: Wilfred Owen

• Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

  Author: Lord Northcliffe

• Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.

  Author: Paul Newman

• People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well.

  Author: Bebe Neuwirth

• I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession.

  Author: Parminder Nagra

• I think a secure profession for young people is history teacher, because in the future, there will be so much more of it to teach.

  Author: Bill Muse

• Besides, I always thought that one of the great attractions of practising law was what I like to call the collegiality of the profession and I think that duty of collegiality applies even when we are retired.

  Author: Len Murray

• I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of the fact that when I was in art school, I had no money whatsoever.

  Author: Martin Mull

• 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.

  Author: Constance Motley

• I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

  Author: Constance Motley

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

  Author: Thomas Moore

• If you would be just as content winning a local Golden Gloves fight as you would making a pile of money as a professional, then fine, go become a boxer. But if the whole idea is for you to get rich, my God, stay in school and learn a profession.

  Author: Gerald McRaney

• Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.

  Author: Edie McClurg

• If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

  Author: Olivier Martinez

• Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

  Author: Charles Lyell

• I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

  Author: Bela Lugosi

• In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.

  Author: Bela Lugosi

• Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

  Author: Sophia Loren

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

  Author: Gerald Lieberman

• 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.

  Author: Joseph Lancaster

• This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.

  Author: Lawrence Korb

• I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well.

  Author: Rem Koolhaas

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

  Author: William Knowles

• 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.

  Author: Steve Kerr

• I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

  Author: Rose Kennedy

• I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.

  Author: Jack Kelley

• Hardly any actor objects to press. It's a question of it being done in the way they like to see it done, meaning to get down to the serious interview what the profession is so we can reach out to the people to help them get along.

  Author: Harvey Keitel

• 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.

  Author: Irving Kaufman

• Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.

  Author: Donald Kagan

• You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.

  Author: John Johnson

• They must have a feeling of do or die. It is such an overcrowded profession.

  Author: Louise Jameson

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

  Author: Helmut Jahn

• I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

  Author: Derek Jacobi

• I had turned my anxiety into my profession.

  Author: Francois Jacob

• My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage.

  Author: E. Hunt

• Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.

  Author: Robert Howard

• Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe.

  Author: Robert Howard

• 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.

  Author: Geoffrey Holder

• All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

  Author: William Hogarth

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

  Author: Eric Hoffer

• Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

  Author: Katharine Hepburn

• Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

  Author: Katharine Hepburn

• It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

  Author: Katharine Hepburn

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

  Author: Shuler Hensley

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

  Author: Skitch Henderson

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

  Author: William Hazlitt

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

  Author: Friedrich Hayek

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

  Author: Laurell Hamilton

• He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.

  Author: Margaret Halsey

• If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

  Author: Uta Hagen

• One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.

  Author: Andrew Greeley

• I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.

  Author: Asa Gray

• To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

  Author: Robert Graves

• Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

  Author: Ulysses Grant

• As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it became a difficult choice for me as to whether to major in music or literature. It wasn't until my 30s that I began a profession in music.

  Author: Tom Glazer

• 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.

  Author: William Glasser

• Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress.

  Author: Gina Gershon

• In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side.

  Author: Gina Gershon

• To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

  Author: Robert Frost

• 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.

  Author: Martin Fischer

• My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.

  Author: Colin Firth

• And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

  Author: Suzanne Farrell

• He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.

  Author: Clifton Fadiman

• 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.

  Author: Rahm Emanuel

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

  Author: George Eliot

• 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.

  Author: Sergei Eisenstein

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

  Author: Dwight Eisenhower

• 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.

  Author: Dwight Eisenhower

• My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.

  Author: Christopher Durang

• Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

  Author: William Dunbar

• It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.

  Author: David Douglass

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

  Author: Rick Dees

• 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.

  Author: Michael Davis

• I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself.

  Author: Hugh Dancy

• Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world.

  Author: Cyril Cusack

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

  Author: Russell Crowe

• It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.

  Author: Wayne Coyne

• You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again.

  Author: Francis Coppola

• I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

  Author: Caroline Cooney

• If you didn't join for the girls, choose another profession.

  Author: Tom Conti

• But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.

  Author: Dabney Coleman

• I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.

  Author: Cy Coleman

• 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.

  Author: Diane Cilento

• When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

  Author: James Carville

• 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.

  Author: Jimmy Carter

• Music isn't only a profession.

  Author: Jose Carreras

• Law is a very addictive profession.

  Author: George Carman

• In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.

  Author: Frank Capra

• I would not encourage everyone to take up this profession. Not everyone is suited for any particular field.

  Author: John Cameron

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

  Author: Candace Cameron

• Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.

  Author: Samuel Butler

• Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.

  Author: James Bryce

• Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.

  Author: Vera Brittain

• Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

  Author: Kingman Brewster, Jr.

• 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.

  Author: Ian Botham

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

  Author: William Booth

• So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.

  Author: Dirk Bogarde

• 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.

  Author: Marc Bloch

• What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession.

  Author: Georges Bizet

• At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.

  Author: Henry Bessemer

• I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

  Author: Halle Berry

• I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.

  Author: Gael Bernal

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

  Author: Henry Beecher

• My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.

  Author: Warren Beatty

• No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.

  Author: Shirley Bassey

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

  Author: James Baldwin

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

  Author: Lauren Bacall

• In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.

  Author: Charles Babbage

• 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.

  Author: Charles Babbage

• Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

  Author: W. Auden

• It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all.

  Author: Armand Assante

• It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession.

  Author: Leon Askin

• I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future.

  Author: Maurice Ashley

• 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.

  Author: Francesca Annis

• I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it.

  Author: Loni Anderson

• Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.

  Author: Christiane Amanpour

• Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.

  Author: Joan Allen

• I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get.

  Author: Andre Agassi

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

  Author: Lord Acton

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