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Quotes About Profession

The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Death is my beat. I make my living from it. I forge my professional reputation on it. I treat it with the passion and precision of an undertaker--somber and sympathetic about it when I'm with the bereaved, a skilled craftsman with it when I'm alone.
~ Michael Connelly
professional mourners
~ Michael Connelly
Extrapolating from the statistical growth of the legal profession, by the year 2035 every single person in the United States will be a lawyer, including newborn infants.
~ Michael Crichton
Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.
~ Michael Gruber
To Redelmeier the very idea that there was a great deal of uncertainty in medicine went largely unacknowledged by its authorities. There was a reason for this: To acknowledge uncertainty was to admit the possibility of error. The entire profession had arranged itself as if to confirm the wisdom of its decisions.
~ Michael Lewis
There was a reason for this: To acknowledge uncertainty was to admit the possibility of error. The entire profession had arranged itself as if to confirm the wisdom of its decisions.
~ Michael Lewis
Toda profesión estaba organizada para confirmar la sabiduría de sus decisiones
~ Michael Lewis
All these exquisitely schooled, sophisticated people, each and every one of whom feels special, are presented with two mainly horrible ways to earn a living: trawler fishing and aluminum smelting.
~ Michael Lewis
Farming is the riskiest profession in the world since the fate of the crop is closely linked to the behaviour of the monsoon.
~ M. S. Swaminathan
If you are a doctor or farmer, be sincere about your profession. If you can do what you do honestly, you will end up serving your country.
~ Farhan Akhtar
Acting is my profession; I enact all roles with sincerity.
~ Mohanlal
I don't need to do only one thing, you know? Even in the entertainment industry, nobody's 'just a singer.'
~ Jessica Jung
I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.
~ Al Spalding
Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
~ Van Morrison
Anant Nag and Vishuvardhan sir are two of the best actors with whom I have worked.
~ Suhasini Maniratnam
If someone comes to me with a script and says, 'Sir, this hero...' I'm like, 'Is there a name, or he is just called a hero?' We are not heroes. Heroes are people fighting for us at the border. We are not heroes; we are just doing our job.
~ Rajkummar Rao
As a child, my sister and I had very fruitful imaginations, and I would think that I wanted to be one profession or I'd want to have this experience in life. I realized it's not because I actually wanted to be a Coast Guard helicopter rescue pilot or something like that - I just enjoyed the idea of playing it.
~ Ian Harding
My dad's a professor of medicine; my mum was a nurse. My little sister is going into healthcare. My older sister is a nurse; my brother's in finance - I'm the runt of the litter.
~ Will Poulter
I come from a pretty scientific family. My sister is a neurologist and my brother is an engineer.
~ Mary Elizabeth Winstead
My sister's an actor as well.
~ Kodi Smit-McPhee
My mom was a hairdresser. My aunt was a hairdresser. My brother was a hairdresser. My sisters are hairdressers.
~ Mark Ruffalo
My ambition is to sit behind a desk and work.
~ Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Sitcoms are usually given short shrift by the acting profession, but it's quite an amazing job.
~ Lea Thompson