Quotes About Profession

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

Theology has not advanced an inch in the last 1,000 years. How much respect does a profession deserve if it cannot add to the knowledge and understanding of man?

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.

Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

My wife, the family therapist Belinda Berman

Each civilization, each nation, each family, each profession, each sex and each class has its own history. Humans have so far been interested mainly in their own private roots, and have therefore never claimed the whole of the inheritance into which they were born, the legacy of everybody's past experience. Each generation searches only for what it thinks it lacks, and recognizes only what it knows already.

For me, it's an easy way to make money. I'm just hitting a ball over a net. Of course, I've grown up with it. It's a part of me. It's all I really know how to do.

What I should have been, you see, is a neurologist.

You never forget a trade.

I worked at Military Media, an advertising agency for military-base newspapers. Don't ask, I won't tell.

I just have no interest in the industry of acting, I don't want anything to do with it. But I respect the craft.

while also noting the quiet efficiency of the nurses as they darted in and out of rooms. I'd always believed nurses were underappreciated.

M.R.: In the humanities certain professors spend their time in effect teaching their Ph.D. thesis. N.C.: Anybody who teaches at age fifty what he was teaching at age twenty-five had better find another profession. If in twenty-five years nothing has happened which proves to you that your ideas were wrong, it means that you are not in a living field, or perhaps are part of a religious sect.

The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.

Thievery is a time-honored profession, my girl. Not to be confused with these hooligans who mug people on the street, or bloodthirsty klutzes who burst into banks, guns blazing. We're discriminating. We're romantic." His voice rose in passion. "We're artists

tailor-made a job I'd like more.

I need you, your boat and your equipment for a month, maybe two. I can't dive alone because I just don't know the waters well enough to risk it, and I don't have the time to waste. I have to be back in Connecticut by the end of August." "To get more chalk dust under your fingernails." She sat back slowly. "You have no right to criticize my profession." "I'm sure the chalk's very exclusive at Yale," Ky commented.

the guy said industry slang for flight attendant was Space Waitress. Or Air Mattress.

Who in their right minds would trust someone who made a profession out of poking around in sick people?

As a matter of fact, this effort at discipline had been helped by the interests of a difficult profession, but the old conclusion to which Ralph had come when he left college still held sway in his mind, and tinged his views with the melancholy belief that life for most people compels the exercise of the lower gifts and wastes the precious ones, until it forces us to agree that there is little virtue, as well as little profit, in what once seemed to us the noblest part of our inheritance.

I don't believe in writers' block. Do doctors have 'doctors block?' Do plumbers have 'plumbers' block?" No. We all have days when we don't feel like working, but why do writers turn that into something so damn special by giving it a faintly romantic name.

In my own profession, some surveys show that up to 80 percent of pastors rate their preaching skills as well above average.