Quotes About Profession

To make the choice of career or profession on selfish grounds, without a true sense of calling, is "probably the greatest single sin any young person can commit, for it is the deliberate withdrawal from allegiance to God of the greatest part of time and strength.

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

Cooking was something women did to nourish and nurture their families, whereas for men it was largely something they did professionally to gain money and status.

Every profession that attracts people for "reasons of the heart" is a profession in which people and the work they do suffer from losing heart. Like teachers, these people are asking, "How can we take heart again so that we can give heart to others?"—which is why they undertook their work in the first place.

I have a degree in history, which is one of the reasons I'm an auto mechanic.

I have a degree in history, which is one of the reasons I'm an auto mechanic.

Maybe my mother had been right, and I should have been a lawyer. She always maintained that at least as a lawyer my contrary nature would be an asset.

Finding an Irish-American in the law enforcement profession is like finding hay in a haystack...

it was when Arthur Sackler said it. Doctors are human, and the notion that donning a white coat might somehow shield them from temptation is a fantasy.

In Arthur's view, it was laughable—even insulting—to insinuate that a colorful ad or a steak dinner might be enough to sway the clinical judgment of an MD. Doctors, he argued, simply can't be bought.

Arthur's answer was to adopt the seductive pizzazz of more traditional advertising—catchy copy, splashy graphics—and to market directly to an influential constituency: the prescribers. Arthur had inherited from his parents a reverence for the medical profession.

His name was Arthur Sackler. He was Morty and Ray's older brother. All three of them were physicians;

those were the subjects that Barber dealt with as a historian, and no matter how scrupulous and profession he was in treating them, there was always a personal motive behind his work, a secret conviction that he was somehow digging into the mysteries of his own life.

Beautiful women aren't allowed to be doctors. It's against the rules.

but I'm a trial lawyer, damn it. In the legal system, not everything is black-and-white. I make my living in the gray.

These days, I try to act with integrity, but I'm a trial lawyer, damn it. In the legal system, not everything is black-and-white. I make my living in the gray.

A good lawyer is part con man, part priest," I said. "No idea what you're talking about." "The con man promises riches if you hire him. The priest threatens hell if you don't.

A lawyer needs to know the truth. No, strike that. I can't speak for my brethren. I need to know the truth.

No one under the age of eighteen needs a cell phone unless they're a surgeon, a drug dealer, or a prostitute.

What I love about nursing is the way it legitimizes caring. In fact, I am paid to care.

Journalists are poorly paid and often alarmingly unconcerned about sources or facts, whilst many articles are an infuriating mixture of fact and comment.

killed fifteen men when I was in combat. Yeah, he was a nurse. Couldn't read the label on the medicine bottle.

Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we profess.