Quotes About Profession

Education continued to come under particularly strong fire...: If women learned how to manage in the world as well as men, if they learned about history and politics and studied for a profession, of course they would soon be demanding a voice and a role outside the home. The medical doctors soon discovered that education was dangerous to a female's health.

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.

As the saying goes, Bruce Jenner is a millionaire, and Mark Spitz is a dentist. It's the wrong sport.

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

I was in a profession that received a lot of media.

On a number of issues, a bipartisan majority of the [economics] profession would unite on the opposite side from a bipartisan majority of Congress. —Arthur Okun (1970)

Banker are arguing over whose profession is the oldest. The geologist points out that his science as as old as the Earth itself. The chemist scoffs at that: Long before the Earth was formed, there were masses of swirling gasses--chemicals. Before that, there was just chaos. The investment banker smiles slyly, nursing a martini: And who do you think created all that chaos?

I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.

Cataloguing is an ancient profession; there are examples of such "ordainers of the universe" (as they were called by the Sumerians) among the oldest vestiges of libraries.

You can't be a good economist unless you're also a good psychologist. Or a good engineer without being the right kind of metaphysician.

It was Lennie Marchbanks at the door. She had met him once or twice before and rather liked him; mechanics struck her as being such easy, agreeable people. And, she noticed, as a psychotherapist, one never had a mechanic for a patient. Why was that? Were they invariably balanced people, free of the neuroses that afflicted non-mechanically-minded others?

Do not allow the profession of which you are a member to induce you to take a bleak view of humanity. You will encounter all sorts of bad behavior but do not judge everybody by the standards of the lowest. If you

Matrons ran hospitals. There may have been doctors around, and some of these doctors may have been allowed to use titles that suggested that they were in charge, but everyone knew that the person doing the real work of running the hospital was Matron.

The manacles we forge for ourselves might be comfortable ones, may not chafe too much, and yet they are manacles nonetheless – bonds of family, of profession, of debt, of personal obligation. Or they may be woven of the simple and only too familiar lassitude that prevents us from doing anything to disturb the established patterns of our life.

And when they are out in public, we are secretly looking at people's arms to determine where we would start an IV, an Arizona nurse said. Sometimes if I'm out with a group of nurses, we're like, 'Wow, look at those veins. I could hit those from across the room.

Nursing is more than a career; it is a calling. Nurses are remarkable. Yet contemporary literature largely neglects them.

Molly had no desire to be a floor nurse. At every hospital where she had worked, there was a rivalry between the ER and the other nursing departments. "We think they're lazy and they think we're bitches," Molly said. One of the most frequent complaints ER nurses had against floor nurses was that floor nurses tried to avoid getting new patients as shift change approached.

nursing was a deeply interpersonal profession in which people had to depend on others—doctors, techs, fellow nurses—to do their job well.

Yes; I am a supercargo; pen, ink, and paper are my tools, and without my tools I am fit for nothing.

Most professional beliefs, especially Christian religious beliefs, are taught through formal, usually verbal, instruction. Such formal instruction may be devoid of personal experience to match the verbal teaching. . . Just as the instruction is verbal, the learner's profession of the belief is verbal.

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine." —Neil deGrasse Tyson

By profession I am a Soldier and take pride in that fact, but I am prouder to be a father

Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.