Profession Quotes
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Storytelling: the world's second oldest profession.
Danny Harris
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Acting is like any other profession. I do not think stars need to have any hang-ups in public. I do not like to be treated like someone special - and this I say because I am normal and not because I want to sound humble.
R. Madhavan
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Nothing is known in our profession by guess; and I do not believe, that from the first dawn of medical science to the present moment, a single correct idea has ever emanated from conjecture: it is right therefore, that those who are studying their profession should be aware that there is no short road to knowledge; and that observation on the diseased living, examination of the dead, and experiments upon living animals, are the only sources of true knowledge; and that inductions from these are the sole bases of legitimate theory.
Astley Cooper
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I think that acting is a very humanizing profession.
Kevin Spacey
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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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Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.
Mickey Rourke
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The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession.
Rick Dees
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The profession to which we belong, once venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position.
Nathaniel Chapman
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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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If you would be just as content winning a local Golden Gloves fight as you would making a pile of money as a professional, then fine, go become a boxer. But if the whole idea is for you to get rich, my God, stay in school and learn a profession.
Gerald McRaney
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Farming is a profession of hope
Brian Brett
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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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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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The Lord is not so concerned about what we study or what profession we follow as long as it is an honest living.
Eldred G. Smith
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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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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
Erica Jong
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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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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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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
Thomas More
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One thing you gotta take into consideration is that it's professional wrestling, and you know it going in. There's dangers to every profession, and our particular profession, concussions is one thing.
Bobby Lashley
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I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw.
Josh Brolin
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Music isn't only a profession.
Jose Carreras
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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