Profession Quotes - Page 24

• If you wish to know the truth about your business or your profession, know that it is an activity of good. It is an activity of your partnership with the infinite.

  Ernest Holmes

  Wish, Infinite, Partnership

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “This Thing Called You”, p.68, Penguin

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• I regard it as a duty which I owed, not just to my people, but also to my profession, to the practice of law, and to the justice for all mankind, to cry out against this discrimination which is essentially unjust and opposed to the whole basis of the attitude towards justice which is part of the tradition of legal training in this country. I believed that in taking up a stand against this injustice I was upholding the dignity of what should be an honorable profession.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Attitude, Justice For All

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• Most of you didn't think that helping people share books would be a subversive act...Yet the fact is that you have chosen a profession that has become radical.

  Naomi Klein

  Book, Thinking, People

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• I always like to make explicit the fact that before I went off not too long ago to fight in the trenches, I was a mathematician by profession. I don't like people to get the idea that I have to do this for a living. I mean, it isn't as though I had to do this, you know, I could be making, oh, three thousand dollars a year just teaching.

  Tom Lehrer

  Teaching, Mean, Fighting

  "Song: "Lobachevsky"("Songs by Tom Lehrer")". 1953.

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• I knew that I liked what I was doing, that it was what I wanted to do for a living, and that the profession didn't really exist so much. So I had to create it.?

  Ronda Rousey

  Wanted

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• All men are by nature conservative but conservatism in the military profession is a source of danger to the country. One must be ready to change his line sharply and suddenly, with no concern for the prejudices and memories of what was yesterday. To rest upon formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.

  Hyman Rickover

  Country, Memories, Military

  US Naval Postgraduate School Address, March 16, 1954.

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• While I reiterate the professions of my dependence upon Heaven... I will observe that... no man who is profligate in his morals... can possibly be a true Christian.

  George Washington

  Christian, Men, Heaven

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• If you've been fortunate enough to live out your dream in the profession of your choice, then you have an obligation to send the elevator back down.

  Jack Lemmon

  Dream, Choices, Enough

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• Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

  Gerald Brenan

  Artist, People, World

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• Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession.

  David Mamet

  Self Confidence, Years, Skills

  David Mamet (2011). “True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor”, p.103, Vintage

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• Much of the profession is empirically bankrupt because it is no longer taught economic history.

  Charles P. Kindleberger

  Economic History, Taught, Economic

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• The origin of nursing started out with prostitutes, who would go care for people in jail. That was back when nobody wanted to go to the hospital because it was basically a place that you went to die. It started progressing with the visiting nurses in the South. The women started wearing these outfits to make it look like they were more sophisticated and so that they could be more respected. They started recruiting women from good education backgrounds because they wanted to make it a more respected profession.

  Eve Hewson

  Nursing, Jail, Nurse

  Source: collider.com

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• I happened to write a book about the stuff I've been involved in over the years. It just so happened that my profession is that I was a cop in the New York City Police Department. I guess people thought it was pretty interesting to have these two things meshed together. My life is pretty boring, I don't know why they're doing this. It's fun.

  Ralph Sarchie

  New York, Fun, Book

  Source: collider.com

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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

  Real, Nice, Mean

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• But acting is my main profession so it's about finding the right balance. I don't know how, if I went any further with the music, I would manage to do both - I would have to take time off from acting because I couldn't do both at same time. I could do six months on and six months off perhaps. But I'm really proud of the record. I've worked on it for a while and I'm really glad to finally get the album out, having done three EPs prior to its release.

  Iwan Rheon

  Balance, Acting, Six

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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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

  Soccer, Children, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do love writing but it is a lonely profession. You're lonely and optimistic at the same time.

  Drew Goddard

  Lonely, Writing, Optimistic

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I really admire really good reporters. Obviously not the gossip ones, but it could be quite an interesting profession, depending on what you're investigating.

  Katia Winter

  Interesting, Gossip, Admire

  Source: collider.com

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• It's a wonderful profession, and it opens lots of doors, and I think it's quite right that people can accuse actors and actresses of being dilettante, but you learn on every job, whatever it is, the process moves you on in some way, and yeah, I want to expand my knowledge of our existence, I suppose.

  Miranda Richardson

  Jobs, Moving, Thinking

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• I've never felt stigmatized in my profession, nor have I allowed myself to. I don't feel either male or female, I feel I am just me, and I should be able to do whatever I like.

  Miranda Richardson

  Males, Female, Able

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• [I]f a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into discourse upon any other subject; it is well known, that the language and the notions proper to his own profession are infused into every subject, and all things are measured by the rules of navigation: and if he should take it into his head to philosophize concerning the faculties of the mind, it cannot be doubted, but he would draw his notions from the fabric of the ship, and would find in the mind, sails, masts, rudder, and compass.

  Thomas Reid

  Men, Thinking, Mind

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• Do not forget Him but think on Him often. Adore Him continually. Live and die with Him. This is the glorious work of a Christian; in a word, this is our profession. If we do not know it, we must learn it.

  Brother Lawrence

  Christian, Thinking, Forget

  Brother Lawrence (2009). “The Practice of the Presence of God: The Complete Works of Brother Lawrence with Notes and Scripture References”, p.80, Perieco Publishing

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• Don't drown the man who taught you to swim. If you learned your trade or profession from the man, do not set up in opposition to him.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Swim, Taught

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• The name 'Chuck Jones', according to my uncle, limited my choice of profession to second baseman or cartoonist.

  Chuck Jones

  Uncles, Names, Choices

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• I'm at the eye doctor. I'm always at the eye doctor. It's like this is my profession. I am no longer a writer, I'm now an optomoligical patient. By the way, this job doesn't pay well.

  John Green

  Jobs, Eye, Doctors

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