Profession Quotes - page 6

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal. (Loretta Young)
Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody. View quote
Lawrence Wright
There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power. View quote
Frances McDormand
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. View quote
Twyla Tharp
Apologists for the profession contend that lawyers are as honest as other men, but this is not very encouraging. View quote
Ferdinand Lundberg
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. View quote
Andrew Greeley
I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it. View quote
Asa Gray
It took me a few years to realize I might want to get into acting as a profession. View quote
Bill Fagerbakke
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. View quote
Bebe Neuwirth
A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases. View quote
Charles Jencks
Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it. (Chesley Sullenberger)
Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top. View quote
Chili Davis
Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad. View quote
Christiane Amanpour
I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has. View quote
Constance Baker Motley
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. View quote
Constance Baker Motley
I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better. View quote
Cy Coleman
Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world. View quote
Cyril Cusack
But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting. View quote
Dabney Coleman
My parents are very proud of my success but still worry, as I'm in a profession where there is no guarantee of work. They have always supported my decision to go into acting, but there have been tough times work-wise. View quote
David Harewood
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. View quote
Derek Jacobi
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. (Diana Rigg)
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. View quote
Diane Cilento
I was in a profession that received a lot of media. View quote
Darrell Royal
Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession. View quote
Edie McClurg
I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be. View quote
Fairuza Balk