Top 90 Professions Quotes

One of the things I love about my job is the cornucopia of different professions in one.

In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they’re not enough.

I encourage members of the media to attempt to Be Best in their own professions.

Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that’s because we’re more valuable objects and ornaments.

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.

I believe that teaching is one of the most noble professions and it’s no easy task to shape the minds of the next generation.

I switched between professions that are like chalk and cheese.

A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It’s unfortunate.

While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

We kind of forget because what television tends to do with these professions like lawyers and doctors and police officers, we create them on such a heroic level that you kind of forget that these are really people.

I don’t want to say I took myself too seriously, but I put a lot of pressure on myself coming out of school. I saw so many people leave the business behind, certain opportunities disappear for folks who had to go into other professions. That kind of terrified me. As a result, I wanted things to happen really quickly.

What we used to have in Britain was professions, and then we had industry. Then at some point, maybe with Margaret Thatcher, we suddenly industrialised our professions. And now we have lawyers with products and banks with products, and lecturers and teachers with products.

There are some professions that culturally and sociologically take a long time to change, and because of that, there’s still sexism in comedy audiences. We shouldn’t blame them: I do it too. A woman comes on, and I feel slightly anxious. I’m a woman in comedy, and I do that; I think everyone does.

Mine is one of the most beautiful professions in fashion: making others happy with an idea… I am happy because I did the job I dreamt of as a child.

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

I think I’m a writer, and it’s my job. People in other professions are expected to do their jobs all the time. Why shouldn’t I?

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

If you look back on professions, when they became undervalued and paid less, women tended to do better in them.

There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.

In most professions, you build up confidence and a sense of achievement as you go along, but that’s really not true for acting.

In certain professions, you can love your profession; you can do it in a very professional way and do it wonderfully, but you do not have this possibility to communicate with others – I express myself singing, and I think this is a real luxury.

Few professions are given as much power as we entrust to those who wear the uniform of a police officer. These individuals dedicate themselves to a calling in which threats that can materialize in an instant are part of the job description.

Modelling is no better or worse than many other professions, but it is more obvious, more accessible.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

I challenge those who are in business and other professions to see that there are copies of the Book of Mormon in their reception rooms.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

Even with limited success as an actor, you usually have a more interesting life than in many other professions, so it’s not an unreasonable choice.

Los Angeles is much like Mumbai, the film industry rules the city over most other professions, so it feels like home.

By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society.

Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we all are reluctant to see them, take on traditionally feminine roles or professions. That is just not something that they do easily.

My default position is not to be an actor. My default position is to be a follower of Jesus Christ. If that means I continue in acting, great! I’d love that. But if it means I need to change professions someday because I can’t provide for my family, well, that’s what I need to do.

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.

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more – even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there’s a gender gap.

What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.

Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They’ll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.

I frequently have scenes that take place in places I’ve never been or characters who have professions that I know nothing about that I’ve got to research. But that’s what Google is for.

Without there being some national strategy, it is difficult for educators to know what kinds of engineers or technicians to produce and for potential students to know what professions to study for.

I don’t like gross monetary inequities. I firmly believe that the wrong people and the wrong professions are being rewarded, and rewarded absurdly, and that the hardest work the obscenely rich do is ensuring that they preserve their privileges, status symbols, and bloated bank accounts.

Politics is far more complex and difficult than other professions, as it involves takeover of your own personal life.

The place where I hail from – a village in Gopalganj in North Bihar – people only know two professions: an engineer or a doctor.

Cricket, like all sport, offers glory to few and a lifetime of it to even fewer. For the investment it demands, it offers short careers that end when people in other professions are starting to flourish.

The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities.

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.

I realize that ‘hire qualified women!’ is the sort of outraged demand that’s often met with a sigh. No one disagrees, and yet gender inequality in high-paying positions extends into all professions.

People are making a lot more noise about representation and diversity. But I think modeling is one of the professions where people can be kind of racist.

Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.

Certain people get an opportunity because they happen to be in the right place at the right time. It has no bearing on their talent. I don’t think we should look at it and feel bitter about it. That’s the way the cookie crumbles in all professions.

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another’s defects, and the bearing of one another’s burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society.

I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too – be a psychologist, a librarian, et cetera. Now I’ve decided that reading fiction that features characters who are in those professions will do.

In learning to utilize antibiotics for the control of human and animal diseases, the medical and veterinary professions have acquired powerful tools for combating infections and epidemics.