Quotes About Profession

in a boy like Bigger, young, unschooled, whose subjective life was clothed in the tattered rags of American "culture," this primitive fear and ecstasy were naked, exposed, unprotected by religion or a framework of government or a scheme of society whose final faiths would gain his love and trust; unprotected by trade or profession, faith or belief; opened to every trivial blast of daily or hourly circumstance. There

What was an actuary? Juliet wondered. It sounded as if it belonged in a zoo, along with a cassowary and a dromedary.)

L'homme qui prépare les onguents et les médecines a pour nom apothicaire. Lorsque c'est une femme qui exerce cette activité, on l'appelle sorcière.

You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and the relationship. You have just a profession.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

The recognition that you have positively affected the life of another person in a way that few can is the greatest reward of this great profession.

There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.

The architectural profession has struggled to develop forms of environmental accounting that can guide the design process without overly burdening or complicating it.

Every hooker I ever speak to tells me that it beats the hell out of waitressing.

Some men are heterosexual and some men are bisexual and some men don't think about sex at all, you know, they become lawyers.

To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience. Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.

The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system.

Being a soldier isn't easy, but being a soldier's wife is more difficult still. It's a team effort if you are to succeed; both must believe in the profession and believe that it will always take care of you. You overlook the bad--the loneliness, the cramped quarters, the mediocre hospitals, and the lousy pay--because you believe in the greater good of what you are doing.

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

In my experience most people in your profession seem to think that if they do not admit the existence of a mistake, the mistake will not exist.

So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever.

Cam smiled wryly. "Priests and lawyers. Not exactly the most popular members of society right now, are we?" "And to think, mothers used to dream of their children becoming lawyers or clergymen.

Sweating profusely, the thirsty dentist took a large swig of mouthwash,

What I love is the span between 'Action' and 'Cut'. What I do in that span is what I love about my job".

When choosing a profession, a person will have good incentive for personal development by choosing such a profession that represents a personal challenge.

Teaching is not only a profession, but it a is a purpose of a great life.

Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.

People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.

I wouldn't pretend to tell you we don't pay our lawyers well.