Quotes
Quotes about Profession
90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.
It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory and staying there.
I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all.
Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
For many persons, law appears to be black magic--an obscure domain that can be fathomed only by the professional initiated into the mysteries.
American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people. -Robert L. Payton.
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
There's something in't More than my father's skill, which was the great'st Of his profession, that his good receipt Shall for my legacy be sanctified By th' luckiest stars in heaven; and would your honor But give me leave to thy success, I'd venture The well-lost life of mine on his grace's cure By such a day and hour.
We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.
The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people that make balloon animals, I always think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be.
All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own. - Oscar Firkins: Memoirs and Letters.
No letters after your name are ever going to be a total guarantee of competence any more than they are a guarantee against fraud. Improving competence involves continuing professional development ... That is the really crucial thing, not just passing an examination.
It is one of the incidents of the profession. [Lat., E un incidente del mestiere.]
Beware of a misfit occupation. . . . Consider carefully your natural bent, whether for business or a profession.
I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]
All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
