Profession Quotes

Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come from another writer one or two rungs on the career ladder ahead of you.

~ Sara Sheridan

Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric.

~ Sara Sheridan

Electricity should not be banned, it just needs much better government regulation and understanding by the medical profession of the full range of toxicity that it presents to the human.

~ Steven Magee

The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.

~ Sara Sheridan

You are infinitely my superior in merit; all that I know - You have qualities which I had not supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you, beyond what - not merely beyond what one sees, because one never sees any thing like it - but beyond what one fancies might be. But still I am not frightened. It is not by equality of merit that you can be won. That is out of the question. It is he who sees and worships your merit the strongest, who loves you most devotedly, that has the best right to a return.” (326)

~ Jane Austen

And since he was seeing more and more people who were unhappy for no apparent reason, he was becoming more and more tired, and even a little unhappy himself. He began to wonder if he was in the right profession, whether he was happy with life, whether he wasn't missing out on something. And then he felt very afraid because he wondered whether these unhappy people were contagious.

~ François Lelord

Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.

~ Clay Shirky

Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine.

~ Sara Sheridan

earn what you can since everything's for sale

~ Geoffrey Chaucer

A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way.

~ Julia Cameron

No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a mistake in the choice of his profession, and every man, worthy of the name, will row long against wind and tide before he allows himself to cry out, 'I am baffled!' and submits to be floated passively back to land.

~ Charlotte Brontë

What job do you want to do?And I see them all hanging up before me, like clothes on a rack, all the jobs, tinker, tailor, soldier, and you have to pick one and then you have to pretend for the rest of your life that that's what you are. So they aint no different really from accidents of birth. I didn't know that phrase then but I learnt it later. It's a good phrase...

~ Graham Swift

Boss may be on, but leader can be anyone.

~ Ameya Agrawal

I think it is a duty I owe to my profession and to my sex to show that a woman has a right to the practice of her profession and cannot be condemned to abandon it merely because she marries. I cannot conceive how women's colleges, inviting and encouraging women to enter professions can be justly founded or maintained denying such a prin

~ Harriet Brooks

[you’ll acquire] A certain amount of cynicism. This business works on you. When you were in law school you had some noble idea what a lawyer should be. A champion of individual rights; a defender of the Constitution; a guardian of the oppressed; an advocate for your client’s principles. Then after you practice for six months you realize you were nothing but hired guns. Mouthpieces for sale to the highest bidder, available to anybody, any crook, any sleazebag with enough money to pay your outrageous fees. Nothing shocks you. It’s supposed to be an honorable profession, but you’ll meet so many crooked lawyers you’ll want to quit and find an honest job. Yeah Mitch, you’ll get cynical. And it’s sad, really.

~ John Grisham

The grandeur of a profession is...above all, uniting men: there is only one true luxury, that of human relationships.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

We may indeed be justly proud of our apostolic succesion. THESE ARE OUR METHODS - to carefully observe the phenomena of life in all its stages , to cultivate reasoning faculty so as to be able to know the true from the false. THIS IS OUR WORK - to prevent disease, to relieve suffering and to heal the sick.

~ William Osler

Lover of love. I adore love letters, and professions of love, and true, heartfelt moments when two people know they’re meant for each other.

~ Lauren Blakely

After all, choosing a profession is extremely challenging – it is likely thehardest thing one has to do in the period of reaching maturity.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Don't be too enthusiastic when choosing a profession – think of earningfor life too.

~ Eraldo Banovac

I finally decided what I want to be when I grow up - late.

~ Brian Spellman

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What price does my soul pay?

~ Dennis Prager

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

~ Chuck Schumer

Americans are very practical folks. Accustomed to hard choices in their own lives, they are willing to give us in intelligence a lot of slack as we make the hard choices our profession demands.

~ Michael Hayden

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

~ Martin Filler

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

~ James A. Baldwin

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.

~ Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

~ Jack Kevorkian

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

~ Margaret Heffernan

Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. anything.

~ Eric Topol

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

~ Ronald Reagan