Profession Quotes
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Aviation is a dynamic profession. The rate of obsolescence of equipment is high and new aircraft have to be placed in inventory periodically in order to stay abreast of the requirements of modern war.
Keith B. McCutcheon
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I stand or fall in my profession by the public's judgement of my performances. No amount of publicity can dampen a good one or gloss over a bad one.
Alastair Sim
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The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.
William Bolitho
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Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?
William Kittredge
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The essential function of the (design) profession in our society is to enhance and cultivate communications toward: Easier understanding of ideas and complex problems, in the shortest possible time and higher visual and auditory retention of data.
Will Burtin
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Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.
Michael Gruber
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This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.
Julia Barr
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
Marcel Proust
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The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.
Paul Krugman
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I played soccer, and I played in a band, and sometimes I was able to do a movie. And my school would cooperate. It was a very easy way to roll into what later became my profession. It's more innocent. When you're a child actor in the U.S., it's a different thing I think.
Michiel Huisman
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Every profession is an island whose inhabitants earn a precarious living by taking in each other’s washing.
Amanda Craig
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Effective science began when it passed from the occasional amateur into the hands of men who made the winning of knowledge their special function or profession.
William Wickenden
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Acting has a strong sensual quality that I get such a... you say 'kick' in America? It's a fantastic profession in that way.
Erland Josephson
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While I am a lawyer by profession and have travelled to several countries, working and educating myself, I came from a rural background in a Third World country at a time when women were told what their place was and whose mothers enjoyed even less.
Dalia Grybauskaite
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Chess is my profession. I am my own boss; I am free. I like literature and music, classical especially. I am in fact quite normal; I have a Bohemian profession without being myself a Bohemian. I am neither a conformist nor a great revolutionary.
Bent Larsen
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If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling.
Stephen Dillane
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Music isn't only a profession.
Jose Carreras
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Combat is my profession and fighting was a great way to maintain a combat mindset while preparing to lead Marines in war.
Brian Stann
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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
Virginia Woolf
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I am thrilled to be joining 'CBS News' and to have the opportunity to collaborate with some of our profession's most talented journalists.
Steve Capus
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Take lots of time for yourself, discovering yourself-pursue not only a profession but other life passions, I always make time to rock climb or hike or write a few short stories. Also, find good people and surround yourself with them. Most importantly, always believe you will, unequivocally.
Sarah Silverman
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If an artist and a scientist have a common point, it is probably in the need for some kind of imaginative thinking to interpret the material they have.
Catherine Yass
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Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.
Moshe Safdie
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In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.
Hillary Clinton