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Quotes About Profession

There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.
~ Bill Bryson
Charlize Theron and Cate Blanchett are very good actresses.
~ Jack Nicholson
It's nice to have recognition for doing a good job, but at the end of the day, I'm just an actor and I'm doing my job and I'm always trying to get better at doing that job.
~ Richard Madden
The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.
~ William James
My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
~ C. L. R. James
Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon.
~ Merlin Mann
Actor is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven't really experienced any of that. Everyone's been really happy for me, which is really, really great.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I told myself.
~ Norman Mailer
Much of the profession is empirically bankrupt because it is no longer taught economic history.
~ Charles P. Kindleberger
Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.
~ Alexander Herzen
I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job.
~ James Gandolfini
At one point in my practice, of the 10 largest home builders in the United States, seven of the 10 were my clients.
~ William Krisel
It is not the mere study of the Law, but to become eminent in the profession of it, which is to yield honor and profit.
~ George Washington
I've never been a cop nor hope to be a cop, thanks.
~ Ed McBain
When I went in, my editor said, 'I hope you don't think you're a writer.' And I said, 'I hope you don't think I'm a journalist.' And, uh, turned out we were both right.
~ Julia Cameron
Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.
~ John Constable
I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
~ Anton Chekhov
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
~ Mark Twain
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
~ Jules Renard
Have you ever noticed that the lawyer always smiles more than the client?
~ George Carlin
If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
~ Beverly Cleary, Ramona's World
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people try their hand at this demanding profession (humor columnist). After a few months, almost all of them have given up and gone back to the ninth grade.
~ Dave Barry
The dentist drills some more and you hear him make a mistake. And to cover it up, they all say the same thing: "Okay, rinse."
~ Bill Cosby