profession quotes

Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That’s because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

At some point in time, you definitely have to go drama. Not to say that you’re going drama just because everybody else does it. You do it to challenge yourself. You do it because, naturally, in the profession of acting, you want to show growth. You want to say that you take the craft seriously.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

As a comedian, I found this thing, this profession, that suits my mind and life force. To drop it to do something else? I just don’t get that.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

As a child, when asked what I would be, I usually said I was going to be a huntsman. A fine profession, truly!

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

‚Via Dolorosa‘ is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I’ll never act again.

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.