Professions Quotes

We`re all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I`m lucky to be in a business where I can change the character I am playing every couple of months.

"I thought I was going to go to college and pick one of the more reputable professions and be an upright citizen. All of that seems like so much nonsense now. I guess it doesn`t do to well to envision these projected scenarios of the future. What happens in just about every case is you fall into whatever you fall into. The next thing you know, you`re looking back in retrospect at what it is you`ve now been doing for the last how many years."

Acting and music are self indulgent professions and they are a luxury unless you love what you do. I have a love/hate relationship with what I do. I think, `Where`s the relevance of this? I`m not a doctor, I`m not an aid worker.` But then I think you only have one life and I am a vessel for stories to be told.

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

Like all professions, acting has terrible drawbacks. It can be fearfully boring, fearfully unglamorous . . . but what is fun about the theatre is that we get our prizes while we are alive to enjoy them. We have the pleasure of the audience`s reaction, we have the applause, we have the publicity, we have the tribute and the honors and whatever it may be. Much more than we probably deserve.

Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path.

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.

Fame is another profession. I feel that I have two professions, I have the profession of being an actor and I have the profession of being famous.

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. He cannot, like the architects, cover his failures with trees and vines. He cannot, like the politicians, screen his sort-comings by blaming his opponents and hope the people will forget. The engineer simply cannot deny he did it. If his works do not work, he is damned.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of 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.

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.

When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing.

What does it say about our culture that personality is now considered a technology, a tool of the trade, not only in politics but in business and the professions? Has everyone been forced to become an actor? In sixteenth century England, actors were

(She tells USA TODAY that demand for some professions needed in rebuilding was already strained amid demand for new housing. A labor shortage could push up wages, she says.) We`re going to see a tremendous boom in construction, ... People want to come back home.

I think for a while that health care had a bad name, ... There were some real problems as we adjusted to managed-care systems. But I think we`ve worked through a lot of that, and it`s a good time to work in the health professions.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment to friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.