Profession Quotes - Page 37

• 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

  Editors, Directors, Hybridity

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• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Success, Agreement

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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• Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many.

  Linus Torvalds

  Important, Want, Economy

  "FM Interviews: Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates software developers". Interview with Rishabh Aiyer Ghosh, firstmonday.org. October 3, 2005.

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• Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.

  John Travolta

  Sports, Three, World

  "John Travolta: 'I don't think I would be here without Scientology'". Interview with Carmen Gray, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2013.

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• Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks.

  Christy Turlington

  Looks, Modeling, Tied Up

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• Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Routine, Physics, Prophecy

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• Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

  Isaac Watts

  Time, Understanding, Depth

  Isaac Watts, Philip Doddridge, David JENNINGS (1819). “The Improvement of the Mind ... By Isaac Watts, D.D. Also His Posthumous Works Published from His Manuscripts by D. Jennings, D.D. and P. Doddridge”, p.21

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• Being a musician is a noble profession.

  Paul Weller

  Musician, Noble, Noble Profession

  "Paul Weller: I am aware of the words 'national treasure' being attached to me" by Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2010.

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• But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Work, Simple, Dedication

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• I had parents who believed I could do anything - and I know how that made me feel. I think both my parents, having careers in the medical profession, feel they are helping people on a daily basis, and that was inculcated in me as a value. I had to struggle with giving up the idea of becoming a doctor myself.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Giving Up, Struggle, Thinking

  "Reese Witherspoon's New Passion". Interview with Abigail Pesta, www.marieclaire.com. January 11, 2008.

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• I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.

  John Wooden

  Teaching, Teacher Appreciation, Thinking

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• There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Friends, People, Political

  "The Struggle for Russia". Book by Boris Yeltsin, 1994.

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• In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

  Loretta Young

  Education, Branches, Common

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• And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.

  Florenz Ziegfeld

  Achievement, Add, May

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• Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.

  Harsha Bhogle

  Work Ethic, Consistency, Ethics

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• Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

  Martin Filler

  Architecture, Weak, Hearted

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• Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.

  Martin Filler

  Practice, Lasts, Architecture

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• I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Want, Happened

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• Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Integrity, Men, Our World

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition”, p.99, Zed Books

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• Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

  Will Rogers

  Inspiration, Idols

  Newspaper article, 15 Feb. 1925, in Paula McSpadden Grove The Will Rogers Book (1961) p. 193

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• My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Literature, Clients, Dresses

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• I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: so with physicians - I will not speak of my own trade - soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years, but do not tell.

  Jonathan Swift

  Hate, Animal, Love Is

  Jonathan Swift (2016). “Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal”, p.374, Simon and Schuster

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• It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was true that time heals bereavement it does so only at the cost of the slow extinction of those loved ones from the heart's memory which is the sole place of their abode then or now. Faces fade, voices dim. Seize them back, whispered the sepulturero. Speak with them. Call their names. Do this and do not let sorrow die for it is the sweetening of every gift.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Memories, Heart, Names

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing”, p.296, Pan Macmillan

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• Life is a mission, not a career. A career is a profession, a mission is a cause. A career asks, What's in it for me? A mission asks, How can I make a difference?

  Sean Covey

  Motivational, Careers, Differences

  Sean Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• My art and profession is to live.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Art

  Michel de Montaigne (1967). “The Essays of Montaigne”

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