Top 560 Profession Quotes

Teaching has always been a poorly paid profession, particularly considering its educational requirements and responsibilities.

Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it’s a magnificent profession.

One thing you gotta take into consideration is that it’s professional wrestling, and you know it going in. There’s dangers to every profession, and our particular profession, concussions is one thing.

The cooking profession, while it’s a noble craft and a noble calling, ’cause you’re doing something useful – you’re feeding people, you’re nurturing them, you’re providing sustenance – it was never pure.

I am often considered almost not a part of the profession of Establishment economists. I am even referred to as a sociologist. And by that, economists usually do not mean anything flattering.

My main goal for taking up acting as a profession was to show that sport or MMA teaches you life skills that can be applied to any profession in the world.

I didn’t really want anyone to know that I wanted to write music or make songs because, in a way, I didn’t necessarily know if I wanted to do it for a profession. I wanted to do it to express myself.

There’s some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it’s a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.

Acting’s the best job there is. Pretending to be someone you’re not is good fun. It’s also a non-ageist profession, and you get to work all over the world with people you admire.

I am seriously thinking of making dance as my major profession.

Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, ‘The blunt truth is that men run the world,’ people say, ‘Really?’ That, to me, is the problem.

I learned my profession onstage. I didn’t have a musical background. I had no conservatory training. I don’t play an instrument.

It is just that all my life I have been so involved in my work that I guess one could say in general that, whenever I had to balance my private life and my profession, my profession always won out.

I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don’t miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them.

I initially moved to Bombay to work in the corporate space. After settling my family here in due course of time, I turned to acting which initially started off as a hobby that I wanted to pursue on the side and then became my profession to sustain my passion around five years back.

They wanted me to do movies and television when I was very young, and it was a big temptation, but I really thought the only way I could learn the profession was on the stage.

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

Police and firefighters are great, but they don’t create wealth. They protect it. That’s crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don’t create the wealth themselves.

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

I don’t speak out because I am an actor nor will I keep silent because I am an actor. I respect my profession, but it endows me with no special privileges; but it also does not limit me or muzzle me. I am a person and a citizen with the attendant responsibilities of voice and vote.

It took me a few years to realize I might want to get into acting as a profession.

When I started this profession, I wanted to make films that entertain but that have content. When I went to film school, they made me believe that the two could not mix.

I soon realized that the best thing I could do for the profession of human services was to get out of it.

I think I’m the greatest chick in the game, and I expect all the others to feel the same way. If not, you’re in the wrong profession.

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

I’ve always been a big Cate Blanchett fan. Such a wonderful role model, the way she carries herself through her profession. She has so much grace to her, and so much intelligence. I’ve also always been a big Katharine Hepburn fan.

People, whatever their profession is, have a right to fight for the right causes.

Music is a conversation between the audience and me, and I love that about my profession.

I always loved films, and when I decided to go to film school, it was with the excuse that I would go into making commercials, because that would be a proper profession, and people wouldn’t think I was crazy.

I am a lawyer by profession.

Hardly any actor objects to press. It’s a question of it being done in the way they like to see it done, meaning to get down to the serious interview what the profession is so we can reach out to the people to help them get along.

My mom was a teacher – I have the greatest respect for the profession – we need great teachers – not poor or mediocre ones.

Writing is not a genteel profession; it’s quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

In my profession, I’m around a lot of people whose bodies are their instruments in one way or another.

There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, ‘I’m going to switch careers to do it,’ or they are often not retained… because the salaries and the compensation aren’t there to make it happen.

Call it Camelot’s revenge: the class of court scribes who made it their profession to uphold a make-believe version of America free of conflict and ruled by noble men helped Nixon get away with it for so long – because, after all, America was ruled by noble men.

For me acting is just a profession. As much passion I have for my profession, I always seperate profession from life.

A lot of people are attracted to the acting profession because they think it’s a cheap, easy, free ride. It really isn’t.

Writing songs is a profession; so it’s not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.

There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they’ve been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn’t just an opportunity, it’s their due.

The digital revolution has wrest a little control away from corporate publishers and white, male, middle-aged critics, but the financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.

I’ve always admired teachers for their patience and purpose in choosing their profession.

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.

We had nothing in hand and my father used to live on the street. The profession of acting happened to him when B.R. Chopra picked him up for a film, and my father acted just to earn money for survival.

People who call themselves actors and can’t ever get work; they do need to get another profession.

In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.

I have always been focused on my job. No profession allows you the luxury of being half-focused. If you’re not into it, you’re not there. And the film industry is all the more harsh in these cases, perhaps because it’s a business of the limelight.

I think in any profession, in general, you always imagine yourself at the top of it. And I’m not trying to say I’m at the top of my profession, but I’ve seen what the top people do and what the top people live like. And that’s definitely something I want to be a part of.

What is a master but a master student? And if that’s true, then there’s a responsibility on you to keep getting better and to explore avenues of your profession.

A lot of people celebrate their past, but I don’t look at it all. I don’t Google myself; I focus on the future. This is a volatile profession, and the moment you start thinking you’ve got something, that’s when the floor beneath you falls through, so I hope to make more movies and TV shows.

There are teachers’ unions around the country realizing they want to improve standards of the profession, improve the quality of their profession, and ultimately attract the best and the brightest to their profession. The vast majority of teachers are dedicated and committed.

I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to… It’s a whole different lens you look through the older you get.