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Quotes About Profession

I'm a lawyer, said the corkscrew, proudly. I am accustomed to appear at the bar.
~ L. Frank Baum
I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial, said Anne, rather scornfully. Nobody would expect two blacksmiths to be violently attracted toward each other merely because they were both blacksmiths.
~ L. M. Montgomery
I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient was and the sense that this was a noble profession.
~ Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey
I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.
~ Criss Angel
I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting.
~ Christopher Pearse Cranch
I've always had a respect for psychiatry as a profession.
~ Rooney Mara
My mother and father have brought us up to respect everyone with the same equal love and honor them, and you're supposed to honor your profession.
~ O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
If you want to be a professional footballer, you have to respect your profession. You have to respect the people that are making you the star you are. You have to protect the passion every day.
~ Emmanuel Petit
This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.
~ Ansel Adams
The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.
~ John Nelson Darby
My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.
~ Condoleezza Rice
It takes a minute to get use to the TV thing, and I have so much more respect for TV actors now.
~ Lucas Till
AI is nowhere near human-like existence. But 99 per cent of human qualities and abilities are simply redundant for the performance of most modern jobs. For AI to squeeze humans out of the job market it needs only outperform us in the specific abilities a particular profession demands.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.
~ Zach Braff
In my experience, I've noticed that waiting on tables is one of two things that almost everyone thinks they can do. The other is writing. Perhaps it's no accident that there is only one letter of difference between waiter and writer.
~ Debra Ginsberg
Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.
~ Dee Dee Myers
Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it, but the latter are the more often successful.
~ Denis Diderot
Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.
~ Eliza Acton
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
~ Walter Scott
The three most important things for a sportscaster are knowledge of the game, a passion for sports and the profession, and the stamina to struggle.
~ Lesley Visser
So, I think I would say, enjoy the process of learning to dance. The process of our profession, and not its final achievement, is the heart and soul of dance.
~ Jacques d'Amboise
I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.
~ Halle Berry
Jokes against the legal profession were what the legal profession loved most.
~ Ian McEwan, The Children Act