Quotes About Profession

I wanted to be an engineer or a nurse.

I tend to play nurses and waitresses and policewomen.

My mum wanted me to be a doctor because she worked in nursing. So she was quite disappointed when I came back from a holiday in France, and said I wanted to be a chef.

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

I have an agent and everything. I audition occasionally.

I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.

My chosen occupation isn't necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.

Specialties facilitate commerce, and promote efficiency in the professions, but are often narrowing to individuals. The spirit of the age tends to doom the lawyer to a narrow life of practice, the business man to a mere money-making career.

If you had any brains, you'd be in a real career, like selling life insurance.

That Mark's a pediatric cardiologist mostly offsets—to me, if not to everyone—how he's also kind of an asshole.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

I could stay at the bottom of the organization chart, as an engineer.

by profession an observer of tones and gestures

It is the pest of our profession that we seldom see the best side of human nature.

Women do not enter a profession in significant numbers until it is physically safe. So until we care enough about men's safety to turn the death professions into safe professions, we in effect discriminate against women.

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

Pride goeth before a fall, gentlemen. So in closin', I jest want to say that in life, or in any profession or business, it ain't how or where you start that counts - it's where you finish.

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

G. K. Chesterton described as "a taboo of tact or convention, whereby we are free to say that a man does this or that because of his nationality, or his profession, or his place of residence, or his hobby, but not because of his creed about the very cosmos in which he lives.

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

One doctor makes work for another.

Medicine, the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

Got teeth? Thank your dental hygienist.