Quotes About Profession

As with many doctors, his job was his identity.

I am in a profession that has succeeded because of its ability to fix. If your problem is fixable, we know just what to do. But if it's not? The fact that we have had no adequate answers to this question is troubling and has caused callousness, inhumanity, and extraordinary suffering.

I wouldn't be a surgeon if I thought otherwise.)

Not long thereafter Lawson committed an indiscretion that left him issuing solemn apologies to the London ministry. He acknowledged having dishonored his profession with his "uneven and unwary conversation." He battled for several years to clear his name.

The factors that contributed to my becoming a mathematician are complex, no doubt, but one major factor was talent, without which I could have accomplished in my profession no more than could a hunchback in a championship track-and-field competition.

You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

Acting can be the healthiest profession in the world, because it allows you to do things you can't do in real life. It allows you to understand more than just what life provides you.

Someone once said that scientists and prostitutes get paid for doing what they enjoy.

Sales professional is a profession deals with people, it's a people business not a selling job.

It's important to know where you've come from so that you can know where you're going. I probably chose my profession because I was seeking approval, adulation, admiration and affection.

I got into acting because my teachers kept nudging me into it. The power a teacher has to influence someone is so great. I can't think of a profession I have more respect for.

Orpah and Ruth; who will represent to us two sorts of professors of religion: Orpah, that sort that indeed make a fair profession, and seem to set out well, but dure but for a while, and then turn back; Ruth, that sort that are sound and sincere, and therefore are steadfast and persevering in the way that they have set out in.

Not too many professions out there that value forgetfulness. Prostitution, maybe. Politics, of course.

I wasn't pretty, but as my mother once said, prettiness wasn't my profession.

Soy uno de esos lectores tan bulímicos que se avergüenzan de ello y acogen con alegría cualquier motivo honorable, profesional, por ejemplo, para saciar su vicio

One doctor makes work for another.

La mejor manera de apartar las preocupaciones es tener ocupaciones, ser activo. Ocuparnos de las cosas en lugar de preocuparnos por ellas. Nuestras aficiones, nuestra vida profesional o el deporte nos ayudan a tener la mente ocupada4 en cosas productivas para no divagar en miedos absurdos que no aportarán nada bueno a nuestra existencia.

Bulletin a decade earlier, his definition of art: "It's the only profession in the world where your employer wants you to die." I think, in this strangely griefless church, it is perhaps the most honest description he gave of his career. I count up the art dealers in the room: there are four.

People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well.

But I am busiest outside of my teaching classes. Do you know any other business or profession where highly-skilled specialists are required to tally numbers, alphabetize cards, put notices into mailboxes, and patrol the lunchroom?

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

My mum translated this in her head to "witchfinder," which was good because like most West Africans, she considered witchfinding a more respectable profession than policeman.

My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.

accountants, for example, have probably had more impact on the world in the last fifteen years than anyone we usually consider to be creative.