Quotes About Profession

In my own profession, some surveys show that up to 80 percent of pastors rate their preaching skills as well above average. Our congregants aren't so kind; 60 percent say our messages aren't so hot—rating them as average or below.

I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.

Planning a wedding can be murder. Planning weddings for a living is nothing short of suicide.

was the least of his responsibilities. He served as the onboard dentist, doctor, and surgeon

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

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

The mercenaries and parasites of the Press, who prostitute its more than royal power, and dishonor a noble profession, will find it easy to mock at things too wonderful for them to understand; for to them the price of a paragraph is more than the value of sincerity.

Nurses can take the pressure.

Nurses are IV leaguers.

We'd all be worse without a nurse.

The woman about to become a mother, or with her new-born infant upon her bosom, should be the object of trembling care and sympathy wherever she bears her tender burden, or stretches her aching limbs... God forbid that any member of the profession to which she trusts her life, doubly precious at that eventful period, should hazard it negligently, unadvisedly, or selfishly!

A great comfort, it has been called, if, in looking on to future years, you are able to think that you are in a profession or a calling from which you will never retire: for the prospect of a total change in your mode of life, and the final pause of the Occupation which for many years employed the greater part of your waking thoughts, and all this amid the failing powers and flagging hopes of declining years, is both a sad and a perplexing prospect to a thoughtful person.

He started a sarcastic smile, but quenched it, according to the etiquette of his profession.

Writing well is one of the most crucial tools of the modern person. It is a skill required by nearly every profession, and one that allows you to get your work done, help others, and leave behind a legacy of your thoughts and actions so you may be remembered long after you are gone.

Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life.

Whatever their other contributions to our society, lawyers could be an important source of protein.

Se ammazzi per sfizio, sei sadico, sei. Se ammazzi per soldi, sei un mercenario. Se ammazzi per soldi e per sfizio, sei un marine, ragazzo.

Writers of history often seek the dramatic over the truth. It is a failing of the profession.

The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

The Civil War marked a milestone in the transformation of nursing from a menial service to a genuine profession.

Hey, Axi. What's the difference between a doctor and a lawyer?" I knew this joke—it was one of Robinson's standards. And I was only half-surprised he was trotting it out now. Playing along, I said, "I don't know. What?" "A lawyer will rob you; a doctor will rob you and kill you, too.

Are you a contractor?" "No, I'm legit." He made me laugh, even at such an old joke. "Actually, I'm an architect. That's just a general contractor who doesn't have enough ambition to make any money.

I hit people for a living, son.

I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my roots are in modern and ballet but, professionally, that's not really out there any more, unfortunately, so these artists aren't really having a lot of ballet dancers behind them so I had to learn hip hop really quick.