Quotes About Profession

I was very serious about journalism, even though colleagues from that time believe that I invented my reports. I didn't invent them, I merely exaggerated slightly.

No comprendió el estado de guerra interna ni se dio cuenta de que la guerra es la obra de arte de los militares, la culminación de sus entrenamientos, el broche dorado de su profesión. No están hechos para brillar en la paz.

There's nothing ever monetarily or fame-seeking or any of the other motivations that sometimes go hand-in-hand with this profession. To me, it's just not like that. I'm on a journey of self-discovery and trying to avoid total existential crisis. That's the kind of operating zone that I'm approaching this business from.

I'm lucky my parents are incredibly supportive and generous people who have put so much faith in me as I jump into this crazy business. It really is so far outside their comfort zone in terms of what a profession can be.

I love animals, and I was always attracted to the idea of being a zoo veterinarian or a veterinarian with the circus.

Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

All professions are a conspiracy against the country.

Management is now where the medical profession was when it decided that working in a drug store was not sufficient training to become a doctor.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Shoemaker, stick to your last.

Culture is what your butcher would have if he were a surgeon.

The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best I could bring to it.

I have no idea how people think of literary agents. Truthfully, I don't think they think of them very often.

As actors, you live in doubt; that's one of the truths of the particular job.

I'm going to be quite choosy about singing. If I connect to a tune and like what I am offered to sing, I'll do it. I am an actor by profession, not a singer.

I no longer practice medicine, but I can say that, for me, medicine was easier - and certainly less emotionally turbulent - than writing.

I had turned my anxiety into my profession.

I never planned to be an actor. It turned out I could make a living doing it.

The early part of my career I really struggled, getting turned down again and again. I was in debt, and it was horrible. And then my family hit such highs in their careers, I asked myself what I was thinking going into the same profession.

I started taking acting classes when I was 14. That's when I knew I wanted to try it professionally. Before that, I watched movies, always, but I didn't think it was a real job. I watched Turner Classic Movies with my parents. I've always loved the old classics.

For me, turning 65 doesn't include walking away from my profession because of age; I love my job and the company I work for.

As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market.