Quotes About Profession

Electricity should not be banned, it just needs much better government regulation and understanding by the medical profession of the full range of toxicity that it presents to the human.

One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living.

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.

Better a man honor his profession than be honored by it.

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training

As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.

When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law.

Waging war on his enemies had been Sokolov's habit and his profession for a long time, but being chivalrous to everyone else was simply a basic tenet of having your shit together as a human and as a man.

And I know about psychologists, when they're writing down what you're saying they're really writing down how much money they're going to get when they sell their latest yacht, because they're all yuppies with no respect.…

By the way, were we to find life-forms on Venus, we would probably call them Venutians, just as people from Mars would be Martians. But according to rules of Latin genitives, to be "of Venus" ought to make you a Venereal. Unfortunately, medical doctors reached that word before astronomers did. Can't blame them, I suppose. Venereal disease long predates astronomy, which itself stands as only the second oldest profession.

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

Do you know why sharks don't eat lawyers? Professional courtesy.

I did an episode of The Profiler. I actually worked on the last episode of Murphy Brown.

Music and the music business are two different things.

I've never been in the music industry, only acting.

There's an incredibly grand attitude towards musicals. I don't understand why my profession is so snooty about it.

Finding a good bus driver can be as important as finding a good musician.

If I wasn't a musician, I'd take up the law. They are the rottenest, wealthiest people in America.

My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.

In fact, many of us from my generation of actors are in the profession because we were all deeply inspired by Sridevi.

One thing I disliked about being a lawyer was billing for my time.

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

When you hear of somebody named Goldberg, you think of a guy sitting behind a desk investing your money.