Quotes About Profession

Allow your passion to become your purpose and it will one day become your profession.

I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

Good knowledge of an art or profession is essential to be successful in life. A man with insufficient knowledge will always cause harm to himself and others.

It is said that the principal element that distinguishes a profession from a business is that in a profession, one's primary obligation is to those he serves, not to himself.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

Penso em aceitar decididamente minha profissão de louco, assim como Degas tomou a forma de um escrivão.

I think that men have no right to profess themselves architects hastily, without having climbed from the steps of these studies and thus, nursed by knowledge of many arts and sciences, having reached the heights of the holy ground of architecture.

Men should discover their past. I admit to this. It has been my profession. Only so can we learn our limitations and come in time to suffer life with compassion. Nevertheless, I now believe there are occasions when … to tamper with the past, even one's own, is to bring [on] that slipping, sliding horror which revolves around all that is done, unalterable, and yet which abides unseen in the living mind … [and makes] us lonely beyond belief.

Executioners and army elders in Russia are allowed to curse. His Majesty exempted them in recognition of their difficult professions. Danilkov

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

If a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer 'writer' for fear that he may go on to ask me what I write, and to answer poetry would embarrass us both.

My father was a dentist, and I always thought that he was one of the 10. It's an interesting way to personalize and humanize, which is one of the most important aspects of communication.

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

It's all about finding your voice in whatever your profession... it helps your confidence.

When asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession, Bette Davis would answer, "The courage to be hated."

I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.

My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.

I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.

This is not the position in life that I had hoped to fill. I want to be an obstetrician. Who quarrels with an obstetrician? Even the obstetrician who delivered Bugsy Siegel goes to bed at night with a clear conscience.

I have, as may be apparent, not much respect for editors as a class.

But tell me, this physician of whom you were just speaking, is he a moneymaker, an earner of fees or a healer of the sick?

Everything that is responsible for creating something out of nothing is a kind of poetry; and so all the creations of every craft and profession are themselves a kind of poetry, and everyone who practices a craft is a poet.