Quotes About Profession

I took the standpoint that the profession of technologist, a man who masters matter, is a masculine profession, if not the only masculine profession there is.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

I'm an actor and a writer, that's how I think of myself. Sometimes my time is divided equally, sometimes less equally, but that's what I do.

I always saw being in a band a full time job.

As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.

Offering sex for money is not a profession that glorifies women; it is a profession born of desperation, poverty, alienation, and loneliness.

Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description.

None of my family is good at being patient. It's why we all become doctors.

I admitted I was afraid of the very idea, as afraid as a mortal might have been of designing offspring genetically to enter certain branches of the arts or certain professions.

Your mother was a goatherder. (Savitar) It's an honorable profession. (Takeshi) Yeah, for a goat. (Savitar)

How are you in the profession of protecting people without knowing who I am? I've been told I have one of the most recognizable faces in the world. (Aiden) Wow…just out of curiosity, when you go to bed at night, do you find yourself ousted off the mattress by that ego? (Leta)

Gareth raked her with a nasty glare. "What are you? A fucking lawyer?" Susan:"Worse. Reporter.

If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an actor.

My art and profession is to live.

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

I've never been a teacher in my life.

One of the crazy things about our job is that we get taught these insane skills that we could never use in real life.

The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.

In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not only those who have never studied or experienced the realities of war, but also professional soldiers frequently fall into the error. But the principles of warfare as I learned them at West Point remain unchanged.

Young men make mistakes. This is inevitable, in any profession.

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.

One hundred and one. No person above seventeen years of age shall have any benefit or protection of the law, or be capable of any place of profit or honor, who is not a member of some church or profession, having his name recorded in some one, and but one religious record at once.