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Quotes About Profession

The word 'actress' or 'authoress' always struck me as condescending. A doctor's a doctor, right? So I've always referred to 'actors' and 'writers,' regardless of their sex.
~ Sidney Lumet
There are three classes of human beings: men, women, and women physicians. —SIR WILLIAM OSLER
~ Sidney Sheldon
The medical profession is justly conservative. Human life should not be considered as the proper material for wild experiments.
~ Sigmund Freud
The medical profession is justly conservative.
~ Sigmund Freud
It almost looks as if analysis were the third of those 'impossible' professions in which one can be sure beforehand of achieving unsatisfying results. The other two, which have been known much longer, are education and government.
~ Sigmund Freud
Still, Mrs Pargeter reflected, you didn't have to be very intelligent to be a solicitor. Just somehow scrape through a few exams in your twenties and then the British legal system saw to it that you had a meal ticket for life.
~ Simon Brett
In oppressing, one becomes oppressed. Men are enchained by reason of their very sovereignty; it is because they alone earn money that their wives demand checks, it is because they alone engage in a business or profession that their wives require them to be successful, it is because they alone embody transcendence that their wives wish to rob them of it by taking charge...
~ Simone de Beauvoir
For the soldier death is the future, the future his profession assigns him. Yet the idea of man's having death for a future is abhorrent to nature. Once the experience of war makes visible the possibility of death that lies locked up in each moment, our thoughts cannot travel from one day to the next without meeting death's face.
~ Simone Weil
An American thinks of a good cook as a low person; a European respects him as an artist.
~ Sinclair Lewis
He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and i am in my own proper atmosphere. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it.
~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it is the history of every one of us. It is a great art to saunter.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.
~ Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Medicine is not a book but mind, not a business but life
~ Farid F. Ibrahim
Money increases happiness only when it lifts people out of poverty to about $50,000 a year in income. Past that, wealth and happiness part ways. This suggests something practical and relieving: Help your children get into a profession that can at least make around $50,000 a year. They don't have to be millionaires to be thrilled with the life you prepare them for. After their basic needs are met, they just need some close friends and relatives. And sometimes even siblings,
~ John Medina
The British general election of 2010 returned only three MPs to the Commons who described their professions as "science or research" (compared with thirty-eight barristers).
~ John Micklethwait
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
~ John Morley
The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.
~ John Nelson Darby
While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.
~ John O. Brennan
One of them was the usual Irishman who stands by the bar of every pub selling talk for beer, one of the oldest professions.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
No value is attached to a mere profession of faith in Christ; only the love which is shown by works is counted genuine. Yet it is love alone which in the sight of Heaven makes any act of value.—The Faith I Live By, p.
~ Ellen G. White
Guess what drives the world like nothing else does? It is passion. And it will forever remain the driving force behind all careers and professions. ~Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
The driving force behind every career or profession is nothing else but passion. Yes! it (passion) kindles and rekindles one's desire to pursue and realize a vision or aspiration all over again and again, until he or she decides to retire. ~Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
Oriunde as merge ma simt strain.Toti oamenii mi se par prea pozitivi,prea profesionisti.Nu fac parte din societate,si tare as vrea sa evadez din cadrul speciei
~ Emil Cioran