Profession famous quotes

It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
-- Al McGuire

#Basketball #Profession

Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment.
-- Alec-Tweedie

#Moments #Theatrical #Profession

Every professional was once an amateur.
-- Alexander Pope

#Profession

Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
-- Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

#Doe #Journalism #Profession

You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Liberty #Honest #Profession

If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control
-- Anthony Stafford Beer

#Cybernetics #Management #Profession

No matter what you do, no matter what your profession is, no matter how old you are, everybody deals with haters,
-- Ariana Grande

#Matter #Deals #Profession

Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.
-- Arthur Erickson

#America #Building #Profession

Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness.
-- Arthur Honegger

#Madness #Composing #Profession

I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.
-- Asa Gray

#Calling #Members #Profession

Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.
-- Aziz Ansari

#Comedy #Stand Up Comedy #Profession

Im my profession you have to mystify the enemy.
-- Bernard Law Montgomery

#Enemy #Profession

Her profession's her religion, her sin is lifelessness.
-- Bob Dylan

#Work #Sin #Profession

You can find the intangibles of being a quarterback in almost every profession in the world.  There's nothing like it.
-- Brady Quinn

#World #Quarterback #Profession

Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.
-- Brendan Behan

#Together #Helping #Profession

Farming is a profession of hope
-- Brian Brett

#Farming #Profession

The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.
-- Candace Cameron

#Profession

I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.
-- Cate Blanchett

#Lucky #Profession

As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.
-- Charlton Heston

#Actors #Profession

Lo, I am the most stupendous in the land at my particular profession.
-- Chris Jericho

#Land #Superstar #Profession

You know, I consistently change in my own life so the roles I'm suitable for also change, and that's a really nice thing about this profession.
-- Chris Klein

#Nice #Roles #Profession

Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks.
-- Christy Turlington

#Looks #Modeling #Profession

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.
-- Clay Shirky

#Members #Profession

I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.
-- Constance Baker Motley

#Long #Enough #Profession

I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.
-- Cy Coleman

#Get Better #Lucky #Profession

But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
-- Dabney Coleman

#Teaching #Acting #Profession

The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.
-- Daniel Quinn

#Ambiguous #Profession

Storytelling: the world's second oldest profession.
-- Danny Harris

#World #Storytelling #Profession

I was in a profession that received a lot of media.
-- Darrell Royal

#Sports #Media #Profession

Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.
-- David Mamet

#Doe #Profession #Train

Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession.
-- David Talbot

#Causes #Journalism #Profession

I am not confident around people. Maybe, I have become slightly more confident over the years because of my profession.
-- Deepika Padukone

#Years #People #Profession

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.
-- Derek Bok

#Art #Profession

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.
-- Dirk Bogarde

#Profession

Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.
-- Douglas Coupland

#Figures #Wells #Profession

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

#Citizens #Should #Profession

Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.
-- Edie McClurg

#Acting #Profession

There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
-- Edith Stein

#Profession

I assure you my professions never go beyond my intentions ...
-- Elizabeth Inchbald

#Integrity #Intention #Profession

Amateurs built the Ark; Professionals built the Titanic.
-- Elizabeth May

#Ark #Profession

install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time.
-- Ezra Pound

#Writing #Brain #Profession

Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living.
-- Fay Weldon

#Writing #Occupation #Profession

I had turned my anxiety into my profession.
-- Francois Jacob

#Anxiety #Profession

You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.
-- Frederik Pohl

#Long #Reason #Profession

This is a profession in which how you look dictates whether or not you get work, so a model has to be healthy.
-- Gabriella Wilde

#Healthy #Looks #Profession

Everyone, at any age, has talents that aren't fully developed-even those who reach the top of their profession.
-- Garry Kasparov

#Age #Talent #Profession

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
-- George Bernard Shaw

#Skeptic #Profession #Persons

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
-- George Bernard Shaw

#Drinking #Conspiracy #Profession

Law is a very addictive profession.
-- George Carman

#Law #Profession

The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right.
-- George Meany

#Gains #Economics #Profession

I never thought of politics as a profession.
-- George Papandreou

#Profession

My profession?consists of bringing truths nearer to the point where they explode. 396
-- Hans Werner Henze

#Profession

Every life is a profession of faith ...
-- Henri Frederic Amiel

#Faith #Life Is #Profession

My profession is to always find God in nature.
-- Henry David Thoreau

#Nature #Profession

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

#Journalism #Publishing #Profession

Engineering is a great profession.
-- Herbert Hoover

#Engineering #Profession

Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.
-- Horace

#Men #Pleasure #Profession

The world cannot always understand one's profession of faith, but it can understand service.
-- Ian Maclaren

#World #Profession

Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.
-- Jacques Barzun

#Age #Profession #Old Age

Making chocolate is a way of life, not a profession,
-- Jacques Torres

#Chocolate #Way #Profession

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.
-- James Carville

#Fame #Profession

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.
-- Jeff Koons

#Art #Thinking #Profession

Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.
-- Jeffrey Tate

#Healthy #Conducting #Profession

All the learn'd are cowards by profession.
-- John Dryden

#Coward #Profession

You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.
-- John H. Johnson

#Something You Love #Profession

The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.
-- John Nelson Darby

#Valuable #Profession

Parenting is the most important profession in the world.
-- John Wooden

#Important #World #Profession

Music isn't only a profession.
-- Jose Carreras

#Music Is #Profession

It is not good for beauty that it should be a profession.
-- Julia Ward Howe

#Beauty #Should #Profession

I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
-- Karen Allen

#Profession

I wasn't sued out of medicine, I wasn't arbitrated out of the profession.
-- Ken Jeong

#Medicine #Profession

The thing about 'Soft Machine' and me was that I never considered another profession.
-- Kevin Ayers

#Machines #Profession

I think that acting is a very humanizing profession.
-- Kevin Spacey

#Thinking #Acting #Profession

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
-- Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#Jargon #Hallmark #Profession

Acting is a youthful profession.
-- Kirk Douglas

#Acting #Profession

Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
-- Lauren Bacall

#Stardom #Profession #Accidents

Human nature is the same in all professions.
-- Laurence Sterne

#Human Nature #Profession #Humans

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.
-- Lawrence Bender

#Profession

Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Men #Profession

I didn't want to lose my sense of myself in my profession.
-- Marissa Mayer

#Want #Profession

Soldiering is a very important profession, is it not?
-- Mike Jackson

#Important #Profession

I feel like I'm in the right profession.
-- Mindy Kaling

#Feels #Profession

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.
-- Moshe Safdie

#Architecture #Faster #Profession

Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.
-- Natasha Leggero

#Comedy #Profession

Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many people.
-- Noah Baumbach

#People #Profession

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.
-- Octavia Butler

#Writing #Frustration #Profession

Architecture is much more than a profession; It's a discipline.
-- Odile Decq

#Discipline #Architecture #Profession

I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.
-- P. T. Barnum

#Profession

Writing is a crummy profession, but a good hobby.
-- Paavo Haavikko

#Writing #Hobbies #Profession

I read once that the true mark of a pro — at anything — is that he understands, loves, and is good at even the drudgery of his profession.
-- Paul Halmos

#Mark #Profession

Money lending is a horrible profession. If we are to call it otherwise it is lawful plundering.
-- Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

#Lending #Horrible #Profession

Architecture is not a profession, it is a discipline.
-- Raimund Abraham

#Discipline #Architecture #Profession

Frustrations are going to be there in every profession you're in.
-- Raphael Saadiq

#Frustration #Profession

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

#Tools #North Carolina #Profession

What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it.
-- Robert Duvall

#Profession

In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.
-- Robert Genn

#Art #Enthusiastic #Profession

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
-- Robert Graves

#Poet #Profession

Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.
-- Russell Crowe

#Reality #Actors #Profession

my present Profession is Physick - Now, when my Pockets are full, I cure a Patient in three Days; when they are empty, I keep him three Months.
-- Susanna Centlivre

#Patient #Empty #Profession

Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions.
-- Theodore Burghard Hurt Brameld

#Teaching #Doubt #Profession