Profession Quotes
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The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.
Kevin Spacey -
Piano playing consists of common sense, heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco, without technique an amateur, without heart a machine. The profession does have its hazards.
Vladimir Horowitz
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Lobbying is the world's second - oldest profession.
Bill Press -
Why the hell would anyone ever choose police work as his profession, he wondered.
Ed McBain -
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
Katharine Hepburn -
Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!
Georges Bizet -
What our profession is all about is interacting with people.
Lorin Maazel -
When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.
Oscar Wilde
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The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful and boring; and is a creature of physical ebullience.
Doris Humphrey -
Education provides you a profession. But not vocation. You do it only because you need to work to earn money to buy your food, buy your clothes, pay the bills. Our life has a greater meaning, and a greater purpose.
Satish Kumar -
Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
Katharine Hepburn -
Soldiers are members of a profession of arms which has existed virtually unchanged for thousands of years- far longer than most other human institutions have existed. The Army has done so because of its unique character- a uniqueness based primarily upon intangibles that cannot be costed.
William A. Connelly -
He who makes war his profession cannot be otherwise than vicious. War makes thieves, and peace brings them to the gallows.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
The difference between the girls today and models of the past is that we are not only interested in fashion: we are going in so many different directions at once. We work harder -- at night and on weekends. On the modeling profession.
Claudia Schiffer
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The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
I do this profession. I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people.
Gerard Depardieu -
Writing is a crummy profession, but a good hobby.
Paavo Haavikko -
I never intended to be on television or in a movie. The theater was all I ever dreamed about, once I decided to try to make it as a business profession. All this other stuff has just been icing.
Scott Bakula -
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
Hermann Hesse -
In the sales profession, the real work begins after the sale is made.
Brian Tracy
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I think women who are pretty certainly have an advantage in any field, in any profession. When a girl is born people still say: Oh, I'm glad that she is pretty. They don't look at whether she is intelligent.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard -
I thrive on challenges, and there is no more imposing challenge for someone in my profession than winning an NBA title.
Phil Jackson -
A discipline, a region of the world of thought, should seek to know itself. Like an individual human being, it has received from its origins a stamp of character, a native mode of response to the situations confronting it. Right responses, 'responsibility', will require of the profession as of the individual an insight into the powers and defects of the tool which history has bequeathed to it.
G. L. S. Shackle -
I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was perhaps too exalted; I may say, is too exalted. I leave it to others more worthy to fill the niches of art.
Samuel Morse