Profession Quotes - page 3

The crusade is never off my mind - the exercise I do, the food I eat, the thought I think - all this and how I can help make my profession better-respected. To me, this one thing - physical culture and nutrition - is the salvation of America. (Jack LaLanne)
All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession. View quote
William Hogarth
The advanced members of the medical profession know that the health of society is not to be obtained or maintained by medicines; - that it is far better, far more easy and far wiser, to adopt substantive measures to prevent disease of body or mind, than to allow substantive measure to remain continually to generate causes to produce physical and mental disorders. View quote
Robert Owen
Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it. View quote
Frank Gehry
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities. View quote
Cesare Pavese
Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates. View quote
William Jennings Bryan
I am a showman by profession...and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me. View quote
P. T. Barnum
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love & duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting & challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it. View quote
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Oh, had I received the education I desired, had I been bred to the profession of the law, I might have been a useful member of society, and instead of myself and my property being taken care of, I might have been a protector of the helpless, a pleader for the poor and unfortunate. (Sarah Grimké)
The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [...] One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book. View quote
Camille Paglia
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. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Other job markets may lay claim to the title, but astronomy is actually the world's oldest profession. View quote
Phil Plait
Everyone, at any age, has talents that aren't fully developed-even those who reach the top of their profession. View quote
Garry Kasparov
Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
I used to think I should like to be a bookbinder or bookseller it seemed to me a most delightful trade and I wished or thought of nothing better. More lately I thought I should be a minister, it seemed so serious and useful a profession, and I entered but little into the merits of religion and the duties of a minister. Every one dissuaded me from the notion, and before I arrived at any age to require a real decision, science had claimed me. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. View quote
Jules Renard
Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession. View quote
Anthony Trollope
I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an apology or else a somewhat violent assertion of right. (Anthony Trollope)
Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand. View quote
Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence. View quote
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one. View quote
Herbert Hoover
I read once that the true mark of a pro - at anything - is that he understands, loves, and is good at even the drudgery of his profession. View quote
Paul Halmos