Quotes About Profession

My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.

He sounded like the kind of guy who gets mad for a living.

He is a perfect politician: glib, superficial, manipulative; a great sense of self and a natural talent for a profession for which lying is usually listed at the top of the job decription. In short, the clinical definition of your average sociopath.

We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt.

Americans are very practical folks. Accustomed to hard choices in their own lives, they are willing to give us in intelligence a lot of slack as we make the hard choices our profession demands.

I think when actors run away from their work that they're slightly crazy, really!

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

I'm from a small town, and I thought I would be a lawyer.

When I was trying to get into acting, to have been a model was about as low as you could get in the acting profession. But that wasn't sexism, it was snobbery, which I knew and took very humbly.

After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.

You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.

At the end of the visit Steve asked, What percent of the work is exciting? After thinking for a moment, I replied, Oh about ten percent. The rest is routine. As I have learned in life, 10 percent is a good number for most professions. I know it has been enough to keep me going to work every day with a smile on my face.

Spend my whole life working in the Shipping ! You have to be joking!

His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep inner desire. Insofar as it is possible to divide people into categories, the surest criterion is the deep-seated desires that orient them to one or another lifelong activity. Every Frenchman is different. But all the actors the world over are similar.

I'd love to do situation comedy - it's the best job in show business.

I love to photograph the tools of one's trade: Duncan Grant's paintbrushes, the typewriter of Herman Hesse, or even my own guitar, a 1957 Fender Duo-Sonic.

What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it.

I just happen to love fighting and happen to be great at it. And I let my lifestyle carry over into my chosen profession.

Doctors and nurses do crazy hours and keep an ideal afloat through the love and care that they have for their craft and their patients and the institution of the NHS. We should be very proud of it.

It's ridiculous to think that you get to play a game you love for a job you get paid for.

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

Baseball is not what I love. It's my job.

So you're a librarian. His eyes shifted back and forth. I prefer loremaster.

but hey, she works in a video rental store and since it's such a demanding high-powered profession her bitchy behavior is completely reasonable, right? The