Quotes About Profession

You might be a firefighter if the microwave goes off and you run out of the house thinking it was your pager.

Millions of women rose up, said G. K. Chesterton, to declare that they would no longer be dictated to, and promptly became stenographers.

The law as a profession has provided me with more satisfaction than I ever dreamed.

I think a lot of actors feel like outsiders or miscreants. This profession provides an opportunity to play out all the different parts of ourselves.

I'd be a terrible journalist. I wouldn't want to pry; I just don't have that nature.

I wanted to be a psychiatrist.

I always wanted to be a psychiatrist.

My dad's from Nigeria and my mom's from Grenada and they both went into medicine. My dad's a psychiatrist and my mom's a nurse so I was going to go into medicine, also.

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.

I think that it's human nature to categorize and label things. That's generally the way that the medical and psychological professions work. You look at elements of what you have, and you are able to categorize it, and then you can cure it. That's generally what works.

I've always considered myself more of a mathematician than a psychologist.

My mom's a psychologist, and so is my grandfather.

I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et cetera. Now I've decided that reading fiction that features characters who are in those professions will do.

I am a psychologist. That's my training.

My dad left his psychology hat at the door and put his dad hat on when he came into the house. It's amazing having my dad have that awesome job. My mother was a model back in the day. I've seen the pictures. My mother's beautiful.

I have never shied away from the public eye and I chose this profession for myself. I have always been out there and made mistakes, accepted it, accomplished things.

When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.

My plans were to practice law and then possibly go into public service.

I was interested in public service, and looking back at my father, my grandfather and two great-grandfathers, well, yeah, that's what they did, too. And I think public service, like journalism, done right is a really honourable, really important profession.

The digital revolution has wrest a little control away from corporate publishers and white, male, middle-aged critics, but the financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

I came into book publishing without any particular impulse to be in book publishing.

If I were a writer, the Pulitzer Prize would be important to me. This is my profession, so an Oscar is important.

Boxing is a buzz, but I went into it to make a living. I wasn't going to go into the ring and get punched in the head for the fun of it.