Profession Quotes

Law is a very addictive profession.

But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity.

One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course. This happens in every job, but because I have worked in comedy for twenty-five years, I can probably speak best about my own profession.

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.

Being a musician is a noble profession.

Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession.

I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.

No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

I guess we're all lucky to be in this profession where you can be someone else for two or three months on a film shoot. I find it restful. Vachement agreable.

I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

But acting is very much a profession that is you're hot one moment and not the next - and that is totally cool. I think that's what I find most fascinating and most exciting about it - is that it can be gone in a puff of smoke.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.

I do this profession. I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people.

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

Well, in our business, it's a very tough profession.

I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.

My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.