Quotes with profession

  • For me, the heyday was in 1959. It was before the Ferus Gallery moved across the street, in the days when Ed Kienholz and Walter Hopps ran it. At that time, art was taken very seriously in terms of being an artist, and not as a profession.
  • The first three men in the world were a gardener, a ploughman, and a grazier; and if any man object that the second of these was a murderer, I desire he would consider that as soon as he was so, he quitted our profession and turned builder.
  • There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

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  • Benjamin Franklin Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Beatrice Webb ... if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • Vera Brittain Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
    Vera Brittain
    English nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist (1893 - 1970)
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  • James Baldwin The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Sherlock Holmes The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
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  • Henry Ward Beecher To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner A duped newspaper or magazine could contend that a fiction-spouting journalist obtained part of his salary via fraud, and use a criminal proceeding to try and recoup that money. Given the profession's notoriously low wages, however, it's probably not worth the publicity headache and legal fees. No news organization has ever pursued such a case.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality of sacredness. He may be making shoes, or he may be cleaning the roads, but he will bring to his work some quality, some grace, some beauty, which is not possible without samādhi.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Katharine Hepburn Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • William Hogarth All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.
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  • Bruce Barton As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Will Rogers Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Herbert Hoover Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.
    On Growing Up: Letters to American Boys & Girls (1962)
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Konstantin Stanislavisky Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.
    Konstantin Stanislavisky
    Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher (1863 - 1938)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Billy Al Bengston For me, the heyday was in 1959. It was before the Ferus Gallery moved across the street, in the days when Ed Kienholz and Walter Hopps ran it. At that time, art was taken very seriously in terms of being an artist, and not as a profession.
    Billy Al Bengston
    American artist and sculptor (1934 - )
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  • Sophia Loren 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.
    Sophia Loren
    Italian actress (1934 - )
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  • Margaret Halsey He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.
    Margaret Halsey
    American writer
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  • Asa Gray I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Francis Bacon I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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