Quotes About Profession

Lawyers have their duties as citizens, but they also have special duties as lawyers. Their obligations go far deeper than earning a living as specialists in corporation or tax law. They have a continuing responsibility to uphold the fundamental principles of justice from which the law cannot depart.

Over the years I've grown to love the industry, my job, and the profession itself. It's been a journey full of ups and downs. For the first few years, it was a journey of self discovery where I grew to love acting while acting.

It greatly upsets me when I'm called a journalistic toad - I mean, I am a journalist!

At one point, I actually, ironically, thought I might go into criminology and work with the FBI.

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work.

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

There is no demand for women engineers, as such, as there are for women doctors; but there's always a demand for anyone who can do a good piece of work.

I'd rather sell reefer than do pizza delivery.

If there were mistakes, there were mistakes. But a man has to have a line of work, no?

All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.

If you're just going to meet consumer or clients' demands, you might as well be a plumber - the work will be more frequently available.

The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.

And I don't like to work. I only like working when I'm working.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

I don't know what I would have done if I had had to work for a living.

Without vanity a writer's work is tepid, and he must accept his vanity as part of his stock in trade and live with it as one of the hazards of his profession.

For an actor to go to work every day is an extreme blessing.

If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.

What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.

If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.