Quotes About Profession

One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge.

To me, part of the fascinating profession of acting is to participate in all these strange situations, to try to understand all these interesting characters, fictitious or real, their human nature... It's extraordinarily fascinating.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

I'm a character actor; that's my skill set.

Performing is a thing in itself, a distinct skill, different from making recordings. And for those who can do it, it's a way to make a living.

My first profession was public accounting; I became a CPA. I was three years into public accounting - great profession, great skill set, but I didn't want to do it forever.

As for another profession ... I suppose I'd manage a global-macro hedge fund. I love that kind of stuff. Weird, I know, but I find it fascinating.

I love teaching. I wouldn't take a job that didn't include it.

I wrote newspaper articles professionally for seven years, and I love newspapers.

I love what I do, so I don't mind working.

I love being a lawyer more than I like writing.

For better or worse, I take my acting seriously. I may not have been in the best movies ever made, but I take it deathly serious, and I love being an actor.

I love being an actor and a job is a job, and I'm always happy to have a job.

I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.

I am really glad to be working at the profession that I love.

I think for something like law or medicine you really have to love it and I didn't love it.

If she can't spell, she shouldn't be a librarian.

The Seaman's Practice

We need to understand why in a society so dependent on technology, a society that benefits so richly from the results of engineering, a society that rewards engineers so well, engineering isn't perceived as a desirable profession.

I love the fact that one of history's greatest heroes had a job title—agronomist—that most of us have never even heard of.

La chose la plus importante à toute vie est le choix d'un métier : le hasard en dispose.

You must get me a house, Childermass," he said. "Get me a house that says to those that visit it that magic is a respectable profession – no less than Law and a great deal more so than Medicine.

It is, after all, many centuries since clergymen distinguished themselves on the field of war, and lawyers never have.

But if you are going to take up a profession – and I cannot see why you should want one at all, now that you have come into your property – surely you can chuse something better than magic! It has no practical application.