Quotes About Profession

Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that's what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn't one moment in my life when I thought I wanted to be anything else.

I'm an actor, not a writer. I'd be pretty annoyed if the writers tried to come in and hang over my shoulder telling me how to act, so I don't go in and tell them how to write.

I go to work and get to hang out with nothing but my kind of guys!

I don't want to be a hardware engineer. That seems like a terrible job.

I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner.

When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats.

My background is in health care.

I always kind of wanted to go into healthcare.

A job is a very healthy thing to do.

Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.

My law degree has always been incredibly helpful.

It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?

I am not a heroine, I am an actor, and that's why I don't think there is any expiry to me.

I am still librarian in your house, for I never was dismissed, and never gave up the office. Now I am librarian here as well.' 'But you have just told me you were sexton here!' 'So I am. It is much the same profession. Except you are a true sexton, books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!

The fault lay with those who had brought him up to the church as to the profession of medicine, or the bar, or the drapery business—as if it lay on one level of choice with other human callings.

Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten pounds a week at begging, it would become a respectable profession immediately. A beggar, looked at realistically, is simply a businessman, getting his living, like other businessmen, in the way that comes to hand. He has not, more than most modem people, sold his honour; he has merely made the mistake of choosing a trade at which it is impossible to grow rich.

I watched him with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies—unless one counts journalists.

Entre más sabiduría tenemos, más podemos ganar. El hombre que busca aprender más de su oficio será ricamente recompensado

J'ai un but, une tâche, disons le mot, une passion. Le métier d'écrire en est une violente et presque indestructible. (I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.) [Letter to Jules Boucoiran, 4 March 1831]

Marketing is a noble profession. It helps people meet their needs. It introduces people to products that enhance their lives, that increase their enjoyment and well-being, that make them safer and more competent, and that save them effort. Marketing presents satisfying products in ways that excite people.

Too many OB/GYN's aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country.

Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYN's aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country. (Poplar Bluff, Missouri, 6 September, 2004)

He hadn't complained to anybody. Even Madame Maigret didn't know why he had fallen into disgrace and been transferred to Luçon. This was the hidden face of the profession, of no concern to those outside.

Sono persone che si danno arie da borghesi. Io non mi sognerei mai di far studiare mio figlio da avvocato