Quotes About Profession

The first, a quote from Voltaire, is contemptuous: "Anything too stupid to be spoken," he asserted, "is sung." The second, an adage from the advertising profession, is tactical: "If you can't make your case to an audience with facts, sing it to them.

Lastly, these findings tell me that the answer to the question of whether, as a group, MDs are primarily patient-serving or self-serving is . . . yes. They are each, depending on their attentional focus at the time.

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

we aim for the practice of Christianity in their everyday life and dealings, and not merely the profession of its theology on Sundays.

The free-lance writer is one who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

As you mature in your profession, your error rate should rapidly decrease towards the asymptote of zero.

See Mastery as Salvation The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The trouble with Lucious, he said, putting his feet up on the desk after this cousin has gone, is that he thinks politics is a fight for justice. Politics is a profession.

The trouble with Lucius," he said, putting his feet up on the desk after his cousin had gone, "is that he thinks politics is a fight for justice. Politics is a profession.

Scientists have no proof that life was not the result of an act of creation, but they are driven by the nature of their profession to seek explanations for the origin of life that lie within the boundaries of natural law.

Why did I become a professional pornographer? What can I say? I needed a job, a job was offered to me, and I took it.

I recommend to young people to seek work for what they will learn, more than what they will earn. Look down the road at what skills they want to acquire before choosing a specific profession and before getting trapped in the Rat Race.

His profession is accounting, but his business is real estate.

we're all employees ultimately. We just work at different levels

Learning skills outside what you think of as your profession will benefit you.

Often I ask people, "What is your business?" And they will say, "Oh, I'm a banker." Then I ask them if they own the bank. And they usually respond, "No, I work there." In that instance, they have confused their profession with their business. Their profession may be a banker, but they still need their own business

Today, doctors face financial challenges I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy:

It's fear that keeps most people working at a job: the fear of not paying their bills, the fear of being fired, the fear of not having enough money, and the fear of starting over. That's the price of studying to learn a profession or trade, and then working for money. Most people become a slave to money—and then get angry at their boss.

Left-hemisphere moment: When assets generate enough income to cover luxuries, that's when you can buy them. Right-hemisphere moment: Think creatively about what your business is. It's not your profession. Subconscious moment: Acquire the type of assets you love, because you will take better care of them and enjoy learning about them.

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.

Jake looked a little more sorrowful as he picked his teeth. Kilt a dentist, he said. A pure accident, but I kilt him.... Well, I've always considered dentistry a dangerous profession, Augustus said. Making a living by yanking people's teeth out is asking for trouble.

Engineers. You had to love them. (The alternative was strangling them, and he didn't want that catching on.) There

Skill. She must know more anatomy than most professors. A doctorate in Prostitution? There was more to the oldest profession than met the eye. Louis Wu could recognize expertise in any field. This woman had it.