Profession Quotes - page 2

My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race. (J. G. Ballard)

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

George Bernard Shaw

But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.

Robert E. Howard

Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors. Let them boldly assert the cause of Christ in an age when so many, who bear the name of Christians, are ashamed of Him: and let them consider as devolved on Them the important duty of suspending for a while the fall of their country, and, perhaps, of performing a still more extensive service to society at large; not by busy interference in politics, in which it cannot but be confessed there is much uncertainty; but rather by that sure and radical benefit of restoring the influence of Religion, and of raising the standard of morality.

William Wilberforce

Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about.

Ernest Hemingway

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

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

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting all your energy into one thing; its the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.

Renzo Piano

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

Robert J. Shiller

For a variety of reasons, I have always felt myself an outsider. I don't know how to classify myself in economics. I am a loner. I do not like groupthink, which, if anything, has become more important in economics. In addition, a lot of the values I hold are not the mainstream values in the profession. (James Heckman)

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

Candace Cameron

There is a big divergence between views on a variety of policy issues from fiscal stimulus to financial regulation. It's my hope and my ambition for the economics profession that as we advance our knowledge, that those discussions will narrow in their focus, and that it will help to have more prudent policy-making down the road.

Lars Peter Hansen

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

Uta Hagen

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

Chuck Schumer

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

Christy Turlington

Journalism is not just a cause, it's also a wacky profession.

David Talbot

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

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.

Michael Tilson Thomas

In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty.

Umberto Eco

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession. (James Carville)

Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission.

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

Georges Simenon

Designing is not a profession but an attitude.

László Moholy-Nagy

Jesus, when he was on Earth, he was out there helping people, right? Why did he perform those miracles? To call attention to his profession. Why do you think I do these incredible feats? To call attention to my profession!

Jack LaLanne

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