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Source: Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson

“Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.”

Knows Ignorance Equal Careful Profession Sheer No Confidence

Book:Orson Welles: Interviews

Source: Orson Welles: Interviews

“Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.”

Party Profession Lists Checks Guests Cocktails Cocktail Parties

Author:Robert Stack

“Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child's confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers' lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson.”

Thinking Children Has Beens Shows Used Magic Late Tools Including Profession Show Business Entertainers Forward Thinking

Author:Criss Angel

“Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.”

Stars Groups Essentials Notion Profession Architecture Contradiction Collectives Modesty

Author:Rem Koolhaas

“What is now called "green architecture" is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.”

Years Firsts Has Beens Issues Intellectual Concerned Green Response Deeper Profession Architecture Related Engaged Consideration Sustainability Caricatures

Author:Rem Koolhaas

“Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me.”

Should Writing Different Profession

Author:Rem Koolhaas

“There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting all your energy into one thing; its the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.”

Giving Art Energy One Thing Negative Profession Architecture Obsession Italian Lunch Transforming Giving Everything

Author:Renzo Piano

“Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.”

Play Might Able Realizing Acting College Profession Blunders Lead In

Author:Ed Asner

“If I had wanted only to make lots of money, I would have chosen a different profession.”

Ifs Different Wanted Profession Chosen Lots Of Money

Author:Peter Stamm

“Someone has said that even criticism is better than silence. I don't agree to this. Criticism can be very harmful unless it comes from a master; and in spite of the fact that we have hundreds of critics these days, it is one of the most difficult of professions.”

Said Facts Difficult Silence Masters Criticism Agree Critics Profession These Days Spite

Author:Janet Scudder

“Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment.”

Moments Profession Present Moment Theatrical

Book:Me and Mine: A Medley of Thoughts and Memories

Source: Me and Mine: A Medley of Thoughts and Memories

“What must it be like to live in Rush Limbaughs world? A world where when anyone other than conservative, white men attempts to do anything or enter any profession, be it business, politics, art or sports, the only reason theyre allowed entry or, incredibly, attain excellence is because the standard was lowered. Be they liberals, people of color, women, the poor or anyone with an accent.... Edgy, controversial, brilliant. What a way to shake up intelligent sports commentary. Hitler would have killed in talk radio. He was edgy, too.”

“My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.”

Growing Up Growing Profession Southern Far Away Illinois

Author:Laurie Metcalf

“Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it and in so doing took responsibility for my own life.”

Writing My Own Acting Responsibility Profession Fantastic My Own Life

Author:Stephen Lang

“I am always impressed by the fact that even the tiniest amount of being listened to, the barest suggestion of the possibility of kind treatment, can bring such an immediate rush of emotion. I think this is because we are almost never really listened to. In my work as a psychologist, I am reminded every day of how infrequently we are heard, any of us, or our actions even marginally understood. And one of the ironies of my "listening profession" is its lesson that, in many ways, each of us ultimately remains a mystery to everyone else.”

Source: The Sociopath Next Door

“Some people find that if they share a profession with their partner, they dont talk about anything else.”

People Ifs Share Profession Partners

Author:Pam Ferris

“It's a special honor to be one of the leaders of this football team. But I said it once, I'll say it again, no one person wins a game by themselves. Individually, it's top of the mountain, my sport, my profession. It's what you dream about as a kid.”

Persons Said Dream Kids Games Winning Sports Leader Team Special Football Honor Mountain Profession Football Team Mvp

Author:Aaron Rodgers

“It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled with a great number of persons of either sex who had devoted themselves to the profession of perpetual chastity.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Study me, reader, if you delight in me, because on very few occasions shall I return to the world, and because the patience for this profession is found in very few, and only in those who wish to compose things anew. Come, oh men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose to nature.”

Ifs Men World Found Wish Study Return Reader Miracle Delight Profession Occasions

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“I didnt go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession.”

Next Rocks Military Moon Picks Program Profession Officers Nasa Notches

Author:Jim Lovell

“Acting is the loneliest profession I know.”

Knows Acting Profession

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.”

Men Humans Mean Ends Views Ideals Perfection Aim Instruments Profession Faculty Livelihood Liberal Education

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“You know, you don't see hospital consultants going on strike, and I don't believe that teachers and headteachers should. It's within their rights, it's a civil right, but I think it is wrong in terms of the reputation of the profession.”

Thinking Knows Should Believe Term Teacher Rights Don't Believe Profession Strikes Reputation Hospitals Consultants

Author:Michael Gove

“Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.”

Body Profession Relaxation Physicality

Author:Natalia Makarova

“Entrepreneurship is a process, not a job or profession. So be faithful to the process and remember that even when times are bad, the process will give you a glimpse of the future that lies ahead.”

Giving Jobs Remember Lying Process Profession Entrepreneurship Faithful Glimpse Being Faithful

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this; like great chessplayers who play sixteen games at once blindfold and die quite soon of epilepsy. Serve them right! I hope the Mathematicians, however, are well rewarded. I promise never to blackleg their profession nor take the bread out of their mouths.”

People Wells Play Dies Games Born Numbers Promise Mouths Mathematics Profession Glad Bread Mathematician I Promise Sixteen Epilepsy Blindfolds

Book:My Early Life: 1874-1904

Source: My Early Life: 1874-1904

“In the United Kingdom at various stages, journalism has been the profession of gentlemen amateurs. And some of them even pride themselves on being amateurs. Their quality is not comparable with the quality of intelligence services even if most of them harbor a remarkable degree of corruption and incompetence.”

Ifs Has Beens United Quality Stage Pride Degrees Various Corruption Profession Kingdoms Journalism Gentleman Remarkable Harbors Incompetence United Kingdom Intelligence Services

Author:Julian Assange

“Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have to go in that direction. Have more respect for readers.”

Ifs Want Should Long Facts Term Reader Profession Journalism Journalist Long Term Credibility

Author:Julian Assange

“I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.”

People Book Five Twenties Dollars Profession Salesman Twenty Five

Author:Ian Frazier

“Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.”

People Has Beens Beats Management Profession Involving Money Management

Author:Robert J. Shiller

“Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.”

Way Film Seeing Profession Supposed To Be Cinema Territory

Author:Leos Carax

“Architecture is not a profession, it is a discipline.”

Discipline Profession Architecture

Author:Raimund Abraham

“Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.”

Comedy Profession Just One

Author:Natasha Leggero

“Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.”

Politics Profession Poisonous Handicrafts

Book:The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.”

Believe Use Choices I Believe Risk Economic Resources Rewards Conviction Burden Customers Profession Entrepreneurship Capitalist Scarce Risk-taking Economic Systems Scarce Resources

Author:Gary Hamel

“A placebo is a phony cure that works. This is very hard for the medical profession to get their teeth around because they hate placebos, but scientifically, placebos work in about 30% of cases that are psychogenic diseases.”

Hard Hate Cases Disease Profession Medical Teeth Cures Phony Medical Profession Placebo

Author:Charles Jencks

“I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.”

Ifs Writing Believe Literature Don't Believe Profession Treated Believe In Yourself Hobbies

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“The ethical practices of lawyers are probably no worse than those of other professions. Lawyers bring some of the trouble on by claiming in a sanctimonious way that they are interested only in justice, not power or wealth. They also suffer guilt by association. Their clients are often people in trouble. Saints need no lawyers: gangsters do.”

People Way Needs Suffering Wealth Justice Practice Trouble Guilt Saint Profession Lawyer Ethical Association Clients Gangsters Sanctimonious

Author:Lawrence M. Friedman

“Planners and designers should encourage as much diversity in human habitats as they find in animal habitats. It is not possible to resolve all conflicts or to gain all ends. Choices have to be made. Different aspects of the public good should be stressed in different places. To achieve variety in land use patterns, there should also be a variety of relationships between the professions, not an institutionalized decision-making tree. Relationships between the constructive professions should, therefore, be deconstructed.”

“The storm center of lawlessness in every American State is the State Capitol. It is there that the worst crimes are committed; it is there that lawbreaking attains to the estate and dignity of a learned profession; it is there that contempt for the laws is engendered, fostered, and spread broadcast.”

States Government Law Liberty Worst Crime Dignity Committed Spread Storm Profession Contempt Estates Capitol Lawlessness

Author:H. L. Mencken

“The word smart is not applied to all professions, even if you are smart in that profession. No one talks about smart lawyers. They may say a brilliant lawyer. They'll talk about a creative artist. Smart is saved for scientists. It just is. It's not even really applied to medical doctors. It applies to scientists in the lab figuring out what hadn't been figured out before.”

Ifs May Artist Culture Creative Smart Doctors Scientist Profession Brilliant Lawyer Medical Saved Labs Creative Art Creative Artists Medical Doctor

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

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