Quotes About Profession

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

The law is a tedious profession and is relieves the boredom by its own little comedies

As everyone knows, in my profession we go around screwing each other as much as possible, mostly to see ourselves do it. Narcissists are always making love to number one.

A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.

People created chaos, not places, and they were damned good at it no matter where they lived. And when this glittering gem of a city teamed up with the world's oldest profession, fantasy piled atop fantasy; it could convince anyone that impulse was a virtue, not a vice.

Along with racism and sexism, our society has a form of caste system based on what you do for money. We call that jobism, and it pervades our interactions with one another on the job, in social settings and even at home. Why else would we consider housewives second-class citizens? Or teachers lower status than doctors even though their desk-side manner with struggling students is far better than many doctors' bedside manner with the ill and dying?

The best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.

Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real commitment to serving the best interests of their clients.

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

Show business is just like high school, except you get paid.

Baking is my business, and it will always come first.

If you wish to know the truth about your business or your profession, know that it is an activity of good. It is an activity of your partnership with the infinite.

There is no business like show business. There is also no business like certified public accounting, but that doesn't rhyme as well.

The legal profession is a business with a tremendous collection of egos. Few people who are not strong egotistically gravitate to it.

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.

I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher.

All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can represent reality ought to be plumbers.

Physicians attend to the business of physicians, and workmen handle the tools of workmen. [Lat., Quod medicorum est Promittunt medici, tractant fabrilia fabri.]

A lawyer is basically a mouth, like a shark is a mouth attached to a long gut. The business of lawyers is to talk, to interrupt one another, and to devour each other if possible.

People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

I always wanted to be a medical doctor, and I never thought of business.

So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever.