Top Profession Quotes
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Pablo Picasso
Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.
Shirley Bassey
I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future.
Maurice Ashley
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We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.
Friedrich August von Hayek 
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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
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The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
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I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.
Asa Gray
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The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
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A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled.
Robert Rainy
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Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
Lord Northcliffe
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You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again.
Francis Ford Coppola
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It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
Dan Simmons
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Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
Henry R. Luce
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