Quotes About Profession

We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.

The bulk of my calls are from agents who are letting you know about material that's coming your way.

Every race gets the religion it deserves, and only as policemen, pugilists, and priests have they succeeded, here and there a successful lawyer, but nothing more serious.

I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.

I wasn't sued out of medicine, I wasn't arbitrated out of the profession.

As a former teacher, it pains me to watch such an essential and rewarding profession suffer due to government neglect.

Being a dandy is a condition rather than a profession. It is a defense against suffering and a celebration of life.

I feel every profession suffers from a little bit of dissatisfaction from time to time. Even I do feel that way as far as my career is concerned.

Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.

I don't think a lot of people are calling me to play doctors and lawyers, which is fine with me. I can put a suit on, but I don't really like to.

But the suit I wear is my work attire, and nothing else.

It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.

I would not encourage everyone to take up this profession. Not everyone is suited for any particular field.

As a comedian, I found this thing, this profession, that suits my mind and life force. To drop it to do something else? I just don't get that.

I'm super grateful to be an employed actor.

Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more its neighbor, than in the unreal half-artistic professions, which, while they pretend to be close to art, in practice deny and attack the existence of all art - as, for example, all of journalism does and almost all criticism and three quarters of what is called (and wants to be called) literature.

Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Business or profession?' 'I guess you'd call me a writer.' No profession,' said the police car, as if talking to itself. The light held him fixed, like a museum specimen, needle thrust through chest.

experiments show that bankers—especially when they are reminded that they are bankers—act in a more dishonest and selfish way.50 They are shaped by their profession

Love is an emotional attachment. Unless you love your work or profession, you cannot be a true success. Love always magnifies and multiplies.

Acting is the loneliest profession I know.

A lawyer is basically a mouth, like a shark is a mouth attached to a long gut. The business of lawyers is to talk, to interrupt one another, and to devour each other if possible.

And though creative writing as an intellectual exercise may be pursued with profit by anyone, writing as a profession is not a job for amateurs, dilettantes, part-time thinkers, 25-watt feelers, the lazy, the insensitive, or the imitative. It is for the creative, and creativity implies both talent and hard work.

75% to 90% of American trial lawyers are incompetent, dishonest, or both.