Profession Quotes

• Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

  276 Copy quote

• Prostitution is said to be the world's oldest profession. It is, indeed, a model of all professional work: the worker relinquishes control over himself... in exchange for money. Because of the passivity it entails, this is a difficult and, for many, a distasteful role.

  Thomas Szasz

  Passivity Is, Roles, World

  "The Second Sin". Book by Thomas Szasz, 1973.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Parenting is the most important profession in the world.

  John Wooden

  Important, World

  Fellowship of Christian Athletes, John Wooden (2010). “The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden”, p.78, Regal

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved.

  Ronald Reagan

  Citizens, Politician, Involved

  Ronald Reagan (1983). “A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982”, Gateway Books

  36 Copy quote

  Show source

• Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Writing

  Simone de Beauvoir (1965). “The prime of life”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation.

  Mark Twain

  Healthy, Occupation, Impossible

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.41, Courier Corporation

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Artist, Thinking, Needs

  9 Copy quote

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

  Katharine Hepburn

  Nice, Acting, Selling

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Douglas Coupland

  Figures, Wells, Interesting Man

  14 Copy quote

• Every professional was once an amateur.

  Alexander Pope

  15 Copy quote

• My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion.

  Harry Houdini

  Records, Constant, Disillusion

  Harry Houdini (2007). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: A Complete ExposT”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country.

  Susan Cain

  Country, Wall, Years

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.218, Broadway Books

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Art is not a career - it's a life.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Art, Careers, Art Is

  9 Copy quote

• Square astronaut, round hole. But somehow, I'd managed to push myself through it, and here was the truly amazing part: along the way, I'd become a good fit. It had only taken 21 years.

  Chris Hadfield

  Taken, Squares, Years

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.157, Pan Macmillan

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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, Brokers

  7 Copy quote

• The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the walls are falling down. We are painters and we paint. If I were a sculptor, I'd sculpt.

  Jack White

  Art, Wall, Fall

  7 Copy quote

• Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.

  Norman Rockwell

  Art, Differences, People

  Norman Rockwell (1994). “Norman Rockwell: Mini Masterpieces”, Outlet

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his economic independence... If his daily grind is hateful he has his weekly solace in art.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Art, Integrity, Independence

  7 Copy quote

• I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was perhaps too exalted; I may say, is too exalted. I leave it to others more worthy to fill the niches of art.

  Samuel Morse

  Art, Ideas, Wish

  60 Copy quote

• A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what it will look like if he continues as he's proceeded.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Years, Careers

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Art may be for the privileged few but they have earned the privilege and deny it to no one.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Privilege, May

  7 Copy quote

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

  George Eliot

  Success, Congratulations, Thinking

  George Eliot “Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2”, Lulu.com

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• All professions are... filled with demands.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Demand, Filled

  7 Copy quote

• Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

  Anton Chekhov

  Tired, Science, Night

  Letter to A. S. Suvorin, 11 Sept. 1888

  77 Copy quote

  Show source