Quotes About Profession

but repentance is faith's fruit, and there is no more reality in a profession of faith than there is reality of repentance accompanying it.

It was a profession that fed on gossip.

Dónde más, en un país que no sea totalitario, sino en la profesión política, se espera que el individuo lo sacrifique todo —incluyendo su propia carrera— por el bien nacional?

It must be pretty cool being a lawyer, she said in awe. Cool was not an adjective Jake would use. He was forced to admit to himself that it had been a long time since he viewed his profession as something other than tedious.

You mentioned law school, he said, and this grabbed her attention. They talked about it at length, with Jake careful not to make his description as dreadful as the three-year ordeal itself. Occasionally, like all lawyers, Jake was asked by students if he would recommend the law as a profession. He had never found an honest way to say no, though he had many reservations.

I can feel the competition here, very much like the first few weeks of law school when we were terribly concerned with each other's initial progress. I nod at a few acquaintances, silently hoping they flunk the exam because they're silently hoping I Collapse too. Such is the nature of the profession.

I thought you were a lawyer, I said, spreading peanut butter. I'm a human first, then a lawyer. It's possible to be both...

lawyers, they valued their time. As investigators, they had learned patience. The two roles were often in conflict.

Neither do we. We're not cops with guns. We're lawyers with subpoenas.

As a lawyer, she never felt so worthy. As a person, she had never felt so needed.

It was written by Jerry Alisandros and sent to about eighty lawyers, one of whom was Wally Figg.

I was a street lawyer, and I could dress any way I wanted.

I don't trust judges. Perhaps it's the nature of my profession. I like knockouts, not decisions.

war. Mattie handed over a list and said, "Not including us, there are fourteen lawyers in Brady, all alphabetized with phone numbers.

Any lawyer whose reputation and gossip dwelled on her bad makeup and tight clothing as opposed to her legal skills was doomed to toil in the netherworld of the profession.

Two thousand lawyers in twenty countries, half of them in New York City alone, a thousand right up there packed together on floors 30 through 65.

What is more likely, considering our perverse nature, than that we should neglect the duties, while we wish to retain the privileges of our Christian profession? Our

Vielleicht muss es im Leben eines Schriftstellers diesen Augenblick geben, in dem ein anderer Schriftsteller beschuldigt wird, seinen Beruf verfehlt zu haben.

R?pinkit?s savo gyvenimu, - pasak? Zajoncas Harvardo studentams. - Jeigu jau tiek pasiek?te, j?s? profesiniai reikalai tur?t? susitvarkyti savaime.

BELIEF IS NOT AN INTELLECTUAL MATTER," he complained. "IF HE'S GOT SO MUCH DOUBT, HE'S IN THE WRONG BUSINESS.

In economics, it is often professionally better to be associated with highly respectable error than uncertainly established truth.

Economists are generally negligent of their heroes.

From that position he pushed for national medical insurance, which the medical profession then advocated, and in 1916 he became president of the American Medical Association. In his presidential address he declared, "There are unmistakable signs that health insurance will constitute the next great step in social legislation.

The Board of Health pleaded for help from retired nurses and doctors if they remembered "even a little" of their profession.