Quotes About Profession

Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do…

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

We're a bit like criminal lawyers. We're the public face of things, but it's the civil lawyers who do the serious work, in the shadows.

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak they are manners, morals, and medicine.

Writing books is a suicidal profession. No other demands as much time, as much work, as much dedication, by comparison with its immediate benefits. I don't think many readers finishing a book ask themselves how many hours of anguish and domestic calamities those two hundred pages have cost the author or how much he received for his work …

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

It is a secret worth knowing that lawyers rarely go to law.

Most good lawyers live well, work hard, and die poor.

Medicine is my lawful wife. Literature is my mistress.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness, for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children.

The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.

To be a housewife is ... a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes ungrateful job if it's looked on as only a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently, or the world will be lost indeed.

One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, whereas I should keep to the butcher's trade.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

Acupuncturist: because badass miracle worker isn't an official job title

writing is as much a state of mind as it is a profession

Cut it out." She gave Peabody a shove. "You're making my eye twitch." "We're just sitting here." "I know sex giggles when I hear them." "I wasn't giggling." "Not you. Him." McNab just grinned at her. "Those were manly chuckles." "You're cops. Be cops.

Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it is frowned on to be original. First rule of restoration: follow the intention of the artist. Never try to improve on him.

I believe when two people are in the same profession, they understand each other better.

Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.