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Quotes About Profession

There's only 5 real jobs in the world. Teacher, fireman, policeman, doctor and somebody who is in the armed service. If you don't have one of those 5 jobs, you shouldn't take your life that serious.
~ Charles Barkley
A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.
~ Ernest L. Boyer
Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.
~ John Dewey
My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor
~ Steve Case
I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.
~ Jon Hamm
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
~ Dan Quayle
My sister is an ER doctor and my brother is a teacher.
~ Rami Malek
There's a whole generation that's retiring. It is unconscionable that the average salary of a lawyer is $79,000 a year and the average salary of a teacher is $39,000 a year.
~ John McCain
Even in that moment of distraction, Kanai noticed—so tenacious were the habits of his profession—that Fokir was using a different form of address with him now. From the respectful apni that he had been using before, he had switched to the same familiar tui Kanai had used in addressing him: it was as though in stepping onto the island, the authority of their positions had been reversed.
~ Amitav Ghosh
In questo 'Ndondò ha ragione. Non si tratta di doveroso interesse professionale, ma di profonda curiosità umana. Lui è fatto così. Di ogni suo paziente vorrebbe sapere tutto della sua vita privata, fin dalla nascita.
~ Andrea Camilleri
Además, ejercía una profesión noble. Es verdad, cobra dinero por ello. Me gustaría saber si un hombre puede ser buen médico y buscar al mismo tiempo su propio provecho. Quizá sea posible.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.
~ Samuel Johnson
Converse with almost any man, grown old in a profession, and you will find him regretting that he did not enter into some different course, to which he too late finds his genius better adapted, or in which he discovers that wealth and honour are more easily attained.
~ Samuel Johnson
She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she was a librarian, after all.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
I spend most of my days up to my elbows in someone's chest cavity. Really, I know zip about music. He didn't bother hiding his surprise. "Wow. That must be...messy." "That didn't sound too great, did it? Let me reassure you—I'm a doctor, not a serial killer.
~ Sarah Mayberry
I have never thought of writing as a profession. It is a solitary independent activity in which practice can never bestow seniority.
~ John Berger
I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.
~ John Cameron
Wherefore we hold that we ought to introduce only those things which we have described above, and which are adapted to the humble character of our profession and the nature of the climate, that the chief thing about our dress maybe not the novelty of the garb, which might give some offence to men of the world, but its honourable simplicity.
~ John Cassian
Because the work that doctors do has moral urgency, doctors have a highly refined, professionally reinforced sense of right and wrong.
~ John D. Lantos
You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
My main hope for my children would be that whatever profession or calling they choose in life, that they pursue it with passion.
~ Shakira
La chose la plus importante a' toute la vie est le choix du me tier: le hasard en dispose. The most important thing in life is to choose a profession: chance arranges for that.
~ Blaise Pascal
I have mainly been interested in acting. I think it's a great job, a fine way to live your life.
~ Jack Nicholson