1.
Money lending is a horrible profession. If we are to call it otherwise it is lawful plundering.
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
2.
There are professions more harmful than industrial design but only a few of them
Victor Papanek
6.
To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.
Sonia Sotomayor
7.
I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved.
Ronald Reagan
9.
You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.
John H. Johnson
10.
We reach the point where our profession is also our hobby.
Robert Anderson
11.
It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.
Katharine Hepburn
12.
Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!
Georges Bizet
13.
There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
Edith Stein
14.
Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.
David Mamet
16.
Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
Marcel Proust
18.
It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.
Francis Bacon
19.
Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.
Octavia Butler
20.
Engineering is a great profession. There is the satisfaction of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realization in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's high privilege.
Herbert Hoover
21.
I am not confident around people. Maybe, I have become slightly more confident over the years because
of my profession.
Deepika Padukone
22.
The world cannot always understand one's profession of faith, but it can understand service.
Ian Maclaren
23.
I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.
P. T. Barnum
24.
Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach.
John Taylor Gatto
25.
Making chocolate is a way of life, not a profession.
Jacques Torres
27.
I've always had a respect for psychiatry as a profession.
Rooney Mara
28.
Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it.
Douglas Coupland
30.
If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control.
Anthony Stafford Beer
31.
Architecture is much more than a profession; It's a discipline.
Odile Decq
32.
Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
Henry R. Luce
33.
To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
Robert Graves
36.
Lo, I am the most stupendous in the land at my particular profession.
Chris Jericho
37.
The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right.
George Meany
38.
It's all about finding your voice in whatever your profession... it helps your confidence.
Jack Black
39.
As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.
Charlton Heston
41.
I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.
Chris Martin
43.
It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.
Al McGuire
44.
Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.
Confucius
46.
Any profession of faith…entrusts the mind and heart to a truth that cannot be proven but can be lived.
Luke Timothy Johnson
48.
The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.
Derek Bok
49.
You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.
Frederik Pohl
50.
Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered.
Fran Lebowitz