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Quotes About Profession

had I not known his profession I would have thought
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Simply, things that move, and therefore require knowledge, do not usually have experts, while things that don't move seem to have some experts. In other words, professions that deal with the future and base their studies on the nonrepeatable past have an expert problem (with the exception of the weather and businesses involving short-term physical processes, not socioeconomic ones).
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I am never bothered by normal people; it is the bull***tter in the "intellectual" profession who bothers me.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
are supposedly underpaid because of their emotional reward from serving society.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
10 million earned through Russian roulette does not have the same value as $10 million earned through the diligent and artful practice of dentistry.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
People who are not morally independent tend to fit ethics to their profession, rather than find a profession that fits their ethics.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Since procrastination is a message from our natural willpower via low motivation, the cure is changing the environment, or one's profession, by selecting one in which one does not have to fight one's impulses.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
simplicity has been difficult to implement in modern life because it is against the spirit of a certain brand of people who seek sophistication so they can justify their profession.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Yet simplicity has been difficult to implement in modern life because it is against the spirit of a certain brand of people who seek sophistication so they can justify their profession. Less is more and usually more effective.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
get a profession that is "scalable," that is, one in which you are not paid by the hour and thus subject to the limitations of the amount of your labor.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
activities. It separates those professions in which one can add zeroes of income with no greater labor from those in which one needs to add labor and time (both of which are in limited supply)
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
His was the profession at that era in which intellectual ability displayed itself far more than in political life; for—leaving a higher motive out of the question it offered inducements powerful enough in the almost worshipping respect of the community, to win the most aspiring ambition into its service. Even political power—as in the case of Increase Mather—was within the grasp of a successful priest.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The moral which presents itself to my reflections, as drawn from Hollingsworth's character and errors, is simply this, that, admitting what is called philanthropy, when adopted as a profession, to be often useful by its energetic impulse to society at large, it is perilous to the individual whose ruling passion, in one exclusive channel, it thus becomes. It
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
Therin lies the paradox of the profession,' Faraday said. 'Those who wish to have the job should not have it...and those who would most refuse to kill are the only ones who should.
~ Neal Shusterman
Therein lies the paradox of the profession, those who wish to have the job should not have it.....and those who most refuse to kill are the only ones who should.
~ Neal Shusterman
Therein lies the paradox of the profession," Faraday said. "Those who wish to have the job should not have it . . . and those who would most refuse to kill are the only ones who should.
~ Neal Shusterman
Il n'y a de gouvernement raisonnable et assuré que l'aristocratique. Monarchie ou république, basées sur la démocratie, sont également absurdes et faibles. ----------------- Il n'existe que trois êtres respectables: Le prêtre, le guerrier, le poète. Savoir, tuer et créer. Les autres hommes sont taillables et corvéables, faits pour l'écurie, c'est-à-dire pour exercer ce qu'on appelle des professions.
~ Charles Baudelaire
programming is a job where Lovecraft meets tradecraft, all the time.
~ Charles Stross
For programming is a job where Lovecraft meets tradecraft, all the time.
~ Charles Stross
Nursing Service.
~ Charles Todd
An economist is someone who is good with numbers but does not have the personality to be an accountant." The tarnished image of
~ Charles Wheelan
I had always dreamed of being a professional escort but never thought that there was any real money in it.
~ Chelsea Handler
I hated modeling.
~ Chace Crawford