Quotes About Profession

The waiters in France could all be senators in the US.

The legal profession is notorious for complicating the simples of things.

My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage.

Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience.

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.

Speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world.

I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.

August 26, 1557, noted that Mrs. Dawson, widow of one Bryckette, a tooth-drawer, as per orders, "shall paye no quartryge to the hawse nor hange oute any signe or cloth with teethe as she heretofore hath done." Her offense: after the death of her husband, she remarried, yet carried on his trade, becoming the first woman dentist known to history.

If I were there, I'd turn the fire department hose on the entire street, which was probably why it was a good thing that I didn't work with the general public.

Psychiatrists do not nag. We're licensed to tell you the best way to live your life. You people just refuse to listen.

Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.

It should be understood that in medieval eyes an artist was simply a craftsman, his activities having little to do with the twentieth-century notions of self-expression, individual genius and 'artistic temperament' that nowadays cling to his profession.

The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express profound ideas and emotions have ideas and emotions more profound than the rest of us. It isn't so. The ability to express is a special gift with a special craft to support it and is spread fairly equally among the profound, the shallow, and the mediocre.

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

Do I have to talk to insane people?" "You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.

Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order or in a worldly profession.

Philip, his successor in the præfecture, was an Arab by birth, and consequently, in the earlier part of his life, a robber by profession.

It was a profession that seemed to fuse compassion and brutality, without having to reveal which was the dominant impulse, as long as both were accompanied by a high degree of precision.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.

Non si può spiegare quanto sia grande l'autorità d'un dotto di professione, allorché vuol dimostrare agli altri le cose di cui sono già persuasi.

Dopo dodici mesi de noviziato, pieni di pentimenti e di ripentimenti, si trovò al momento della professione, al momento cioè in cui conveniva, o dire un no più strano, più inaspettatto, più scandaloso che mai, o ripetere un sí tante volte detto; lo ripeté, e fu monaca per sempre.

Cold in my professions, warm in ?my? friendships, I wish, my Dear Laurens, it m?ight? be in my power, by action rather than words, ?to? convince you that I love you.