Quotes About Profession

young go into the profession with dread, the old can scarcely wait for retirement, and those of the middle years yearn for sabbaticals.

My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.

I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.

Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into it, except lawyers, university men, and men of all sorts that have been bred at Edinborough.

If you get a prudent healthy Wife, your Industry in your Profession, with her good Economy, will be a Fortune sufficient.

A lawyer starts life giving 500 worth of law for 5 and ends giving 5 worth for 500.

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

Scholarship, far from leading inexorably to a profession, may in fact preclude it. For it does not permit you to abandon it.

The most important thing I feel in the acting profession is to create a community that reflects you back to you.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

I guess it's sad that anybody, regardless of profession, that they're in this country, would take a shot at our military.

I think that growth happens and that learning happens in anybody's life regardless of what profession you're in.

Acting is a psychological profession, and every character drains you emotionally, regardless of whether it is an intense art house movie or a light-hearted commercial series.

I got a regret: That I started acting so late. I was 27, and guys who start at 18 or so, there's this kinda continuity of friendships they form in the profession by startin' young, I've never had that.

I'm a regular person with an extraordinary job.

I really don't like talking about me - me as me, that is. Me in relation to what I do is another matter. But me as me is boring.

In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.

Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers.

Cooking is what I do professionally and it is my way of life, but it is also the way I relax. It is the thing I dream about the most; it makes me smile.

Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.

When you see the industry's fickleness so early on, you realise that you are only as good as your last release. It is all about your work. And that has set the way I look at my profession and what I do in my career.

I feel happy when people hire me only as an actor.

I'm an actor; I hire out.