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Quotes About Profession

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
~ Helmut Jahn
Shame on military glory, shame on armies, shame on the soldier's profession, which changes men, some into stupid victims, others into base executioners. Yes shame, that's true – but it's too true, it's true in eternity, but not yet for us.
~ Henri Barbusse
Every life is a profession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
As for doing good, that is one of the professions which are full.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Më pëlqen të operuarit, prandaj u bëra kirurg, por jam i përgjegjshëm se truri nuk shërohet njësoj si kockat dhe muskujt
~ Henry Marsh
Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet
~ Henry Mintzberg
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
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.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Our profession is dreadful, writing corrupts the soul.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The General belonged to the learned type of military men who believed that liberal and humane views can be reconciled with their profession. But being by nature a kind and intelligent man, he soon felt the impossibility of such a reconciliation.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I was always working steady, but I never called it art.
~ Leonard Cohen
Perhaps the difference between a professor and a bus driver is that the professor can say stupid things with complete authority while the bus driver is not authorized to make brilliant insights.
~ Les Back
In his profession, Wright had seen horror stacked on horror, plenty of evidence that there was no shortage of hell right here on earth. As to what had kept him sane in the face of all that he had witnessed, it was a simple sense of purpose. "It is that simple, John," Wright said. "There is evil. And there is good.
~ Les Standiford
It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.
~ Aaron Tveit
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.
~ Charles Babbage
Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.
~ P. T. Barnum
The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're providing sustenance - it was never pure.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Medicine is a supremely useful profession. Fiction writing is not.
~ Ethan Canin
I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.
~ Gary Hamel
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
~ Queen Elizabeth II
Images in the 20th century had a unique power where image became divorced from reality, and often more important than reality... Buildings were judged - at least by members of our own profession - more by the way they looked in magazines than by the satisfaction people felt when using them.
~ Christopher Alexander
Hedge-fund managers make too much money relative to their social utility. I wish their rewards were a bit closer to those of, say, schoolteachers.
~ David Ignatius
I think some people have a vague idea, but the general public has no clue what the actual behind-the-scenes of filmmaking is and what this profession is.
~ Freddie Wong