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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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 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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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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Music isn't only a profession.
Jose Carreras
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Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.
Moshe Safdie
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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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It's always fun to welcome new people into your life. When dating anyone or becoming friends with anyone who has a different profession, a different life, it opens doors. All my friends here do such different creative things. It's so awesome.
Christopher Bollen
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People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession.
Estelle Parsons
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Try to pick a profession in which you enjoy even the most mundane, tedious parts. Then you will always be happy
Will Shortz
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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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Lawyers-a 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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Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.
Harry Reasoner
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To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I know that it is so useless that I make little distinction between a man who is only a mathematician and a common artisan. Also, I call it the most beautiful profession in the world; but it is only a profession.
Blaise Pascal
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If you didn't join for the girls, choose another profession.
Tom Conti
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Education is such a noble profession, its a wonderful way to serve.
Erin Gruwell
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Um, well my main profession is acting and music is what I love doing. It's kind of nice like that in a way because it means I'm under no real pressure with the music. I have got complete creative control and I can make whatever I want. So, that takes a lot of the pressures off because there's no financial pressure. And it's something I've always loved doing.
Iwan Rheon
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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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Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director.
Michael Tilson Thomas
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But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.
Ernie Pyle
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I had to decide he said later whether I would be a lawyer by profession and a revolutionary at intervals, or a revolutionary by profession and a lawyer at intervals.
Eleftherios Venizelos
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I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all.
Edward VII
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“General" stands here for the individual who goes into action, whether freely or forcedly. Since anarchy offers him an especially favorable charge, this type is permanent today. Thus, "general" has a universal rather than a special meaning. It can be replaced ad libitum. It refers not to a profession but to a condition. The latter may also crop up in a coolie, in which case it is particularly effective.
Ernst Junger