Profession Quotes - page 24

The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession. (Rick Dees)
The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s. View quote
Robert Darnton
Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty. View quote
Rosemary Mahoney
In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession. View quote
Rashida Jones
I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for several years. Which is trying to find a way to not let the insecurity of my profession get the better of me and make me crazy. I'm trying to find a way to maintain my own personal balance in the midst of everything. View quote
Rebecca De Mornay
I know, for me, that I have always been very conscious of how I dress when I go to the studio, I'm very conscious of my body language when I'm working - a lot of times, I'm the only female in the room. It's a very male-dominated profession. I'm always around guys. Guys are going to try you all day, and they're going to flirt all day. View quote
Sevyn Streeter
Though moral axioms to guide the conduct of the practitioner have existed since the beginnings of the profession of healing, Western doctors are most likely to view the Hippocratic Oath of approximately two-and-a-half millennia ago as the first codified set of statements to which they can look for guidance. View quote
Sherwin B. Nuland
No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years. View quote
Shirley Bassey
The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows. View quote
Shuler Hensley
Well, in our business, it's a very tough profession. View quote
Skitch Henderson
If I am to be remembered for anything I have done in this profession, I would like it to be for the four films in which I directed Spencer Tracy. (Stanley Kramer)
If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling. View quote
Stephen Dillane
Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it, and in so doing, took responsibility for my own life. View quote
Stephen Lang
If you love helping people, and you love trying to bring comfort and peace to their life at a very, very difficult time, you're going to have to look pretty hard to find a profession that gives you more opportunities than the funeral business. View quote
Steve Southerland
There's lots of interesting jobs in the profession besides acting, and I like to try and keep an eye on and understand other people's jobs, rather than just my own. View quote
Sarah Sutton
Read, listen to and watch everything you can. Explore the corners of popular culture and the arts. And, of course, these days you have to stay maniacally plugged in to the cutting edge of whatever technology is taking your profession into the future - otherwise you're toast. View quote
Tom Freston
I was raised to be in service to something larger than myself. A lot of actors concentrate on what they will get out of the profession, rather than what they can offer it. The way I see it, if you come with something to offer, you can offer it forever. View quote
Tyne Daly
I don't speak out because I am an actor nor will I keep silent because I am an actor. I respect my profession, but it endows me with no special privileges; but it also does not limit me or muzzle me. I am a person and a citizen with the attendant responsibilities of voice and vote. View quote
Theodore Bikel
To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession. View quote
William Standish Knowles
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. View quote
Wayne Coyne
Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that. (Will Oldham)
I've often wondered about people that come to the profession late in life. I've wanted to be an actor since the first grade. I watched a play being performed by the third grade class, and it was... magic. View quote
William Christopher
Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual. View quote
Nickolas Muray
Altruism itself was so insisted upon in the latter half of the nineteenth century that ... theory and practice, words and deeds, stood in liveliest contradiction. ... Everywhere a conflict rent the world in twain: it created abysses in every thinker's scheme of things: it made its presence so unpleasantly real that the best brains gave up research and thinking, and crept for refuge into a profession, a craft, into libraries, or hid themselves in the mine-shafts of specialism. View quote
Oscar Levy
Being Queen is a profession, a job, a position, an office that one cannot put aside when you come home from work. It is there all the time - and it is there all your life. View quote
Margrethe II of Denmark