Quotes About Profession

With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.

Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.

With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

It's an incredible paradox that being a doctor is so degrading and yet is so valued by society

Never pursue literature as a trade.

But then, did I look like a detective? Come to think of it, most people don't try to guess what women do for a living by the way they look - but they are usually astounded to find out what I do.

Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come from another writer one or two rungs on the career ladder ahead of you.

People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.

Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.

The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.

We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.

A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.

I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.

I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies -- unless one counts journalists.

There is no profession more essential than that of an educator, and it's time for all of us to embrace and celebrate their importance and contribution to America's children.

Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations.

Victories come when their time comes. Often later than you wish. Patience is an essential quality of a coach's profession.

There's never any time I think I'm a real journalist, because I don't have any of the qualifications or the intentions for that.

Do you know, every time I've seen you you've been like the Grim Reaper of goodwill and cheer. You should find another profession.

When people, women included, hear that you are writing, they assume that it is simply a hobby to fill in the time between doing the washing-up and the ironing. It couldn't possibly be a profession.

The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.

One of the reasons I decided to enter this profession, one of the Riot Librarrrians wrote, was because I'm in love with information, and the library remains one of the few spaces in our lives where information is not a commodity.... There's a subversive element to librarianship that I adore.

Wij dragomans kunnen alleen maar nutteloos zijn, beste jongen,' troostte hij me. 'Maar we doen niemand kwaad met ons werk. In alle andere beroepen kun je de menselijke soort grote schade toebrengen. Denk bijvoorbeeld maar eens aan advocaten en artsen, om van architecten of politici nog maar te zwijgen.

When asked what he did for a living, Dave would answer, "I work for local government," because if he said he was a cop, the mood instantly stiffened.