Profession Quotes - page 7

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. (Frederick Sanger)
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. View quote
Florenz Ziegfeld
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. View quote
Francesca Annis
I had turned my anxiety into my profession. View quote
Francois Jacob
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. View quote
Gina Gershon
In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side. View quote
Gina Gershon
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. View quote
Geoffrey Holder
Law is a very addictive profession. View quote
George Carman
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. View quote
Hugh Dancy
Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world. View quote
Harry Reasoner
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. (Ian Botham)
Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession. View quote
Jeffrey Tate
I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I started checking things out and I found out there was a flight school down in Daytona Beach, called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. View quote
Jerry Doyle
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. View quote
Jack Kelley
I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession. View quote
John Howe
In the real estate business you learn more about people, and you learn more about community issues, you learn more about life, you learn more about the impact of government, probably than any other profession that I know of. View quote
Johnny Isakson
My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good? View quote
Joseph Howe
I'm a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night. View quote
Josh Fox
My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get. View quote
Laurie Metcalf
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. View quote
Lawrence Korb
I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Doing this part is the highlight of my career. What a way to leave the profession! (Mark Goddard)
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. View quote
Irving R. Kaufman
Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful. View quote
Martin Yan
If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature. View quote
Nalini Nadkarni
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. View quote
Nick Stahl