Quotes About Profession

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

My father was a lawyer.

I've been in contact with music since I was four or five years old through my father, because of the interest he had in music and all his musical skills. I finally managed to make that my profession.

My father was not able to get all the vinyl he used to listen to with me. He couldn't travel as he did it because of his profession as a diplomatic career.

My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature

The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God; and this can be done only by means of the acknowledgment and profession of the truth by each one of us.

Every life is a profession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

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.

He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly successful, have acquired an entirely different kind of culture, literary or artistic, of which they make no use in the specialised work of their profession, but by which their conversation profits.

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.

For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture.

My husband's girlfriend worked for an airline, but she was not a flight attendant, like I'd first assumed. She was an actual pilot. I supposed that made it better.

each followed such a profession as was most proper for the nature of their Species, which the Empress encouraged them in, especially those that had applied themselves to the study of several Arts and Sciences; for they were as ingenious and witty in the invention of profitable and useful Arts, as we are in our world, nay, more; and to that end she erected Schools, and founded several Societies.

Confess: its my profession that alarms you. This is why few people ask me to dinner, though Lord knows I dont go out of my way to be scary.

Lou había acabado ejerciendo su profesión porque le encantaba leer. Cayó en la cuenta, mientras curioseaba por las grandes estanterías, de lo poco que leía ahora. Trabajaba sobre todo con papeles indescifrables y mapas sobrescritos. En lo que a libros concernía, solo se ocupaba de su exterior. Aquí tendría tiempo para leer

one of the great gifts of our profession is that the process of doing what we do allows us to become better human beings.

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.

It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon.

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

I think a secure profession for young people is history teacher, because in the future, there will be so much more of it to teach

Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.