Quotes About Profession

I went to UC Davis because I wanted to be a vet. It's a great profession if it's right for you, but it's memorizing the bones and the muscles, and I am terrible at stuff like that. Also, there's a lot of blood and gore involved.

I would have loved to have been science-minded enough to be in the caring profession - either as a doctor or nurse or vet.

If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet.

I was a pretty independent kid. I thought maybe I'd be a veterinarian or an environmental lawyer.

Depending on the show, I've played a cop, a criminal, or a victim. So there's a range.

If you look at Victorian England, being a soldier was considered a noble profession.

It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.

Have you heard this classic accounting joke? Question: What's the definition of an accountant? Answer: Someone who solves a problem you didn't know you had in a way you don't understand.

Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a branch of literature would seem to require. Few here think of relying upon the exertion of poetic talent for a livelihood, and of making literature the profession of life. The bar or the pulpit claims the greater part of the scholar's existence, and poetry is made its pastime.

Do you know, every time I've seen you you've been like the Grim Reaper of goodwill and cheer. You should find another profession.

Journalism — a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your profession.

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

He's a lawyer, he's a priest. This does not compute. - Harry Dresden

As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?

The grandeur of a profession is...above all, uniting men: there is only one true luxury, that of human relationships.

It's not what you know but the kind of job you do that makes the difference.

To let the gospel of Jesus shape how we work means to heed the influence of both the psychological idols within our hearts as well as the sociological idols in our culture and profession.

I left journalism because I met too many interesting people at an uninteresting salary.

I never liked being a salesman. . . . Ever since I got my first two orders: Get out! and Stay out!

If law school is so hard to get through how come there are so many lawyers?

If you're in a good profession it's hard to get bored because you're never finished-there will always be work you haven't done.

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade.