Quotes About Profession

And like all the better professions, editing is something of an art, too, if it's done well, and something of a mystery as well. Nobody teaches it, of course; you're born to it, the way a good surgeon is born with the right hands; it's something you either can or can't do, though apprenticeship doesn't hurt.

There is no secret" to success, Fred explained years later in accepting the Horatio Alger Award, given to people who overcame adversity. "There are just two things. One, you must like what you do. You must pick out the right business or profession. You must learn all about it . . . so you become enthusiastic about it. Nine out of ten people don't like what they do. And in not liking what they do, they lose enthusiasm, they go from job to job, and ultimately become a nothing.

I was a good lawyer , and most days that was enough. I was aware, however, that I took refuge in my profession, as unlikely as that seemed considering the amount of human suffering I dealt with. It offered me a role to escape into, from what I no longer knew; perhaps nothing more significant than my own little ration of suffering.

What if I become a lawyer?' 'Please don't do that,' says Ruiz. 'Why not?' 'They're like monkeys who get dressed up and fling poo at each other.

To be a good soldier you must love the army. But to be a good officer you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love. That is Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a very hard thing to do. No other profession requires it. That is one reason why there are so very few good officers. Although there are many good men.

Acting, in his view, was the greater and more important legal skill.

A whore can always turn herself into a good little cook over time.

obstinacy is perhaps the only human quality that matters at the end of the day, not only in the profession of the policeman but in many professions. At least in any that have something to do with the notion of truth.

Psychotherapist," I corrected. "We do the same thing as shrinks, but we use smaller words and keep our egos in check.

I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot, thank goodness.

I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.

There are just so many benefits for you to calling yourself a "Property Manager" versus a "Landlord.

That's why every doctor on TV is a drug addict, a sociopath, or just plain mega-rude. Doctors can do anything they want!

What about Helena? It's okay, because she's in the medical profession. They have to do whatever is the best for health. That's right, the Hippocratic oath. She'll be sad, but she won't interfere with us because of the oath. Will you move your things up to my apartment?

It's a wonderful profession, and it opens lots of doors, and I think it's quite right that people can accuse actors and actresses of being dilettante, but you learn on every job, whatever it is, the process moves you on in some way, and yeah, I want to expand my knowledge of our existence, I suppose.

A shoemaker, in making a pair of shoes, cannot spoil a scrap of leather without having to bear the loss; but in our business we may spoil a man without its costing us a farthing. The blunders are never put down to us, and it is always the fault of the fellow who dies. The best of this profession is, that there is the greatest honesty and discretion among the dead; for you never find them complain of the physician who has killed them.

I find that it is the best trade of all; for, whether we manage well or ill, we are paid just the same.

Doctors pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into patients of whom they know nothing.

Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease which, once contracted, cannot be got out of the system. If it was not like that, there would be no hospital nurses, for compared dispassionately with other professions, the hours are long, the work hard, and the pay inadequate to the amount of concentrated energy required. A nurse, however, does not view her profession dispassionately. It is too much a part of her.

Physician's assistant.

My art and profession is to live.

There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist- the taxidermist leaves the hide.

Journalism is the most respected activity in the world. It is the profession everyone needs, and arguing against us is a risk

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.