Profession Quotes

Advertising, an art, is constantly besieged and compromised by logicians and technocrats, the scientists of our profession who wildly miss the main point about everything we do.

Those who are compelled to paint by force, without being in the necessary mood, can produce only ungainly works, because this profession requires an unruffled temper.

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.

Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.

I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved.

As a physician, I am embarrassed by my profession's lack of interest in healthier lifestyles. We need to change the way we approach chronic disease.

I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.

Ballet is not just my profession, it is my life ... It is horrible for me to think that one day it will all finish.

The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession

Lobbying is the world's second - oldest profession.

No person, possession, profession, or position ever fills the cup of a wounded, empty heart. It's an emptiness only God can fill.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself.

Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.

Acting is easy and fun. You earn a lot of money, and you bang out with girls. The profession is given tremendous significance within our society, but it's not really worthy of it.

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

My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage.

Better a man honor his profession than be honored by it.

If you've been fortunate enough to live out your dream in the profession of your choice, then you have an obligation to send the elevator back down.

He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.

If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

I believe a visible church to be a congregation of those who make a credible profession of their faith in Christ, and obedience to him, joined by the bond of the covenant.

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

In the gospel of Jesus, sincere and costly discipleship always accompanies genuine conversion. The gospel of Jesus teaches men that a mere profession of faith alone is no sound evidence of salvation.

We reach the point where our profession is also our hobby.

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible.

The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

What is a master but a master student? And if that's true, then there's a responsibility on you to keep getting better and to explore avenues of your profession.

I just want to be known as a clown because to me, that's the height of my profession. It means you can do everything - sing, dance and, above all, make people laugh.

Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!

Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.

The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.

Painting done under pressure by artists without the necessary talent can only give rise to formlessness, as painting is a profession that requires peace of mind.

There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

Forget about the profession of being a photographer. First be a photographer and maybe the profession will come after.

Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life.

Likewise 'radical'. I'm only radical because the architectural profession has got lost. Architects are such a dull lot - and they're so convinced that they matter.

The trick to any profession is making it look easy.

Life is a mission, not a career. A career is a profession, a mission is a cause. A career asks, What's in it for me? A mission asks, How can I make a difference?

First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.

They come for you in the morning in a limousine; they take you to the studio; they stick a pretty girl in your arms... They call that a profession? Come on!