“We had early on women having the right to vote, then women in the workforce during WWII, just going back in history, and then we had the higher education of women, and then women more fully participating in the economy and in business, the professions, education, you name the subject... but the missing link has always been: is there quality, affordable healthcare for all women, regardless of what their family situation might be?” MightNamesQualitySituationEconomySubjectsMissingHigherVoteProfessionLinksHealthcareWwiiAffordableParticipatingHigher EducationRight To VoteWorkforce Author:Nancy Pelosi
“If people are teaching economics, they need to teach all the different disciplines, all the different schools in economics. They can't just teach one because then the person isn't equipped to deal with the economics profession.” PeopleIfsNeedsPersonsDifferentSchoolDealsTeachTeachingDisciplineEconomicsProfession Author:Charles Koch
“I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.” TryingResponsibilityAcceptingPatientProfessionMedicalMedical ProfessionAssisting Author:Jack Kevorkian
“The concept of an "architect" is one of the oldest professions in the world. Whereas, some professions, such as a "lawyer", have their roots in Latin, "Archi - tecton" is actually a Greek word, and much older. Just knowing how old the profession is gives me hope that we will still exist for years to come, even if we are changing.” IfsWorldGivingYearsStillsKnowingConceptsRootsGive MeProfessionLawyerGreekLatinArchitect Author:Santiago Calatrava
“I have purpose. My life has meaning. I am engaged in a profession that I'm passionate about. I have some place to go every day. I'm expected. There's always a task at hand. I have beautiful relationships in my life. I have a beautiful home, I go to meetings. I work with others. I stay busy.” HomeHandsBeautifulPurposeTasksMeetingsBusyPassionateProfessionExpectedEngagedPlaces To GoTask At Hand Author:Mackenzie Phillips
“There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren't a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.” TwoJobsGuyHellMediaProfessionCoachesCoachingGood Coaches Author:Bobby Knight
“I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have demoralized, persecuted, so many, including women, gays, non-believers.” LittlesUseTalkingGayIncludingProfessionBelieverUncomfortableOrganizedHierarchyPersecutedOrganized ReligionNon BelieverDemoralized Author:Adrienne Rich
“I can do what my energy, my time, to my other sort of commitment. And then also emotional, religious harmony. So in these two field, now that more or less I think the spirituality or human values in these fields, I may consider my only professional field. The political, national struggle, these are not my profession.” ThinkingHumansMayI CanTwoPoliticalValuesSpiritualityEnergyCan DoReligiousStruggleFieldsEmotionalCommitmentHarmonyProfessionMy TimeHuman Values Author:Dalai Lama
“The invitation come from some institution who really involving so-called my own profession, these fields. And then different universities or education sort of institution, I feel that is the place where the awareness of these things to start and to spread a more human community. So then on that level, yes, I have some obligation.” FeelsHumansDifferentCommunityMy OwnLevelsAwarenessFieldsInstitutionsUniversitySpreadProfessionObligationInvitationsInvolving Author:Dalai Lama
“As a young woman working in journalism, I assumed harassment and discrimination came with the territory and that you just had to get on with the job. As I rose to senior positions, it took me awhile to realise that just because I'd survived relatively unscathed didn't mean the younger women joining the profession would do so, and it isn't until you hit a certain age that the reality of ageism - which is much more acute for women - kicks in.” MeanRealityAgeJobsYoungCertainPositionRoseProfessionDiscriminationJournalismKicksRealisingTerritoryYoung WomenSurvivedSeniorJoiningHarassmentAgeism Author:Catherine Mayer
“This is a large part of the academic profession: to make up complex, subtle arguments that are childishly ridiculous but are enveloped in sufficient profundity that they take on a kind of plausibility.” KindArgumentComplexesProfessionRidiculousSufficientSubtleAcademicProfundity Author:Noam Chomsky
“For those of us who got into good colleges or the professions, did we stand up to that high school history teacher who told us some ridiculous lie about American history and say, "That's a ridiculous lie. You're an idiot"? No. We said, "All right, I'll keep quiet, and I'll write it in the exam and I'll think, yes, he's an idiot." And it's easy to say and believe things that improve your self-image and your career and that are in other ways beneficial to yourselves.” ThinkingWayWritingBelieveSaidSelfSchoolLyingEasyCareersTeacherCollegeQuietHigh SchoolProfessionRidiculousIdiotAmerican HistoryBeneficialExamHistory TeacherGood CollegeSchool History Author:Noam Chomsky
“We need to identify the least effective or ineffective teachers and for those people we need to either quickly accelerate their practice or move them out of the profession. That's what I believe and quite frankly I have never met anybody at least to my face who said they disagree with that notion.” PeopleNeedsBelieveSaidFacesMovingI BelievePracticeTeacherMetsNotionProfessionDisagreeAccelerate Author:Michelle Rhee
“When I was 7 years old and my father [Pablo Escobar] tells me "my profession is that of a bandido (a bandit) that is what I do" - these are the words he tells me after the assassination of the Minister of Justice ordered by my father himself in 1984 - it's very difficult to react to that when you are only 7 years old because you don't realize the significance of the word bandido.” YearsFatherDifficultRealizingJusticeProfessionMinistersSignificanceAssassinationBanditsPablo Escobar Author:Juan Pablo Escobar
“We might hope that the law as a profession does not vanish, because justice may vanish with it - but we could probably do with far fewer lawyers. Since I think agriculture will come back closer to the center of life, I think there will be many vocational opportunities there - especially with the so-called 'value-added' activities associated with food production. That's a windy way to say more local wine and cheese-makers - and probably fewer giant factories producing cheez doodles and Pepsi Cola.” ThinkingWayMayDoeMightLawValuesOpportunityJusticeActivityWineProductionsProfessionLawyerLocalsGiantsMakersFactoriesFewerCheeseAgricultureWindyPepsiFood ProductionWine And Cheese Author:James Howard Kunstler
“Art is created to make us, to make our passage through the world better, fruitful - and I would say that every story in the end, if it is good, tells us something. This is actually what I meant when I said a novelist is a teacher. Which is why I am constantly dealing with "didactic". Now a teacher in the sense I use it is not somebody who has the profession of standing in front of children, with a piece of chalk in his hand scribbling on the blackboard. That is not the teacher I have in mind. The teacher I have in mind is something less tangible.” IfsWorldMindChildrenArtSaidEndsStoriesUseHandsTeacherPiecesFrontsArt IsStandingProfessionNovelistsPassagesTangibleChalkDidacticBlackboard Author:Chinua Achebe
“When a profession is protected by academic freedom and tenure, it tends to turn inward. To a large extent that's good.” TurnsProfessionAcademicProtectedInwardTenureAcademic Freedom Author:Martha C. Nussbaum
“LSD is no longer playing a bad role in the drug scene and psychiatrists are again trying to submit their proposals for research with this substance to the health authorities. I hope that LSD will again become available in the normal way, for the medical profession. Then it could play the role it really should, a beneficial role.” WayShouldTryingPlayRolesSceneDrugAuthorityNormalResearchAvailableProfessionMedicalSubstanceSubmitBeneficialProposalPsychiatristLsdMedical Profession Author:Albert Hofmann
“I think it comes down to the type of personality that the performing arts seem to attract. And that's outgoing, very sensitive - sometimes incredibly insecure - people, that for some reason need a lot of validation. They have a lot that they have to get out, and they choose one of the hardest professions in the world in which to exist, being as sensitive as you need to be.” PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsArtSometimesReasonSeemsTypePersonalityProfessionHardestPerformingSensitiveInsecureValidationOutgoingPerforming ArtsInsecure People Author:Audra McDonald
“When you are an historian, there's probably nothing that matters more than to be recognized by your colleagues in your own profession. I was lucky enough to win the Pulitzer Prize for History. I had to give a talk right after that to some young people. The most important thing to tell them, I think, is that you can't ever know that it's going to turn out that way.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayGivingImportantMatterEnoughYoungTurnsWinningLuckyImportant ThingsProfessionPrizeHistorianColleagues Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“You can't start out at 20 in whatever your profession is and say, "I want to win an Olympic medal," or "I want to become president," or "I want to win the Pulitzer Prize." If you love what you're doing, it's sort of a nice thing that happens toward the end of your career, or in the middle of your career. It is not the reason you were doing it. The reason you were doing it is because every day you wake up in the morning and you can't wait to learn something new.” IfsWantEndsReasonHappensWinningWaitingPresidentCareersMorningNiceMiddleWake UpProfessionPrizeSomething NewMedalNice ThingsOlympic Medals Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“I think the most important advice is, a person doesn't have to find out right away. It's not like their first attempt at finding a profession is the only one they're going to find. I might well have gone down other paths, and it still might have been okay. But if you find something that you love, and if it keeps deepening with each new experience, then just stay with it.” IfsThinkingFirstsWellsPersonsHas BeensStillsImportantMightGonePathAdviceFindingsOkayProfessionMight Have BeenNew Experiences Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“I feel like the reason I ended up becoming a playwright is because I never choose the right word. As a kid, my fantasy profession was to be a novelist. But the thing about writing prose - and maybe great prose writers don't feel this way - but I always felt it was about choosing words. I was always like, "I have to choose the perfect word." And then it would kill me, and I would choose the wrong word or I would choose too many perfect words - I wrote really purple prose.” WayFeelsWritingReasonKidsFeltPerfectFantasyBecomingProfessionNovelistsProsePurpleKill MePlaywrightRight WordsWrong Words Author:Annie Baker
“In art, I think it's not useful to be a professional of the profession. It will not give you something new.” ThinkingGivingArtProfessionSomething New Author:Albert Serra
“Acting is one of the professions I most respect because if you tried something and you can't do it and you thought at one time in your life - and of course, I did at one time of my life want it - and you realize that you can't do it that you can't just switch your personality that way, then you are in awe of people who can.” PeopleIfsWayWantCoursesRealizingActingPersonalityProfessionAweOne TimeTime Of My Life Author:Sherry Lansing
“I think journalist is a great profession. It's complicated now. People talk about the demise of investigative reporting.Newspapers play an amazing role in our society, and I still think they are important. I'm sorry newspaper circulation is down. Ultimately, the importance of newspapers can't be replaced.” PeopleThinkingImportantImportanceSorryComplicatedProfessionJournalistReplaced Author:Seymour Hersh
“I'm in a profession with a dismal success rate, in an academic field with a dismal hiring rate. And I don't write, really, about any of that - rather the institutional structures I've negotiated my way through, with healthy doses of luck, provide a breathing, parasitic glimpse into the bureaucratic monolith of the creative-degree machine.” WritingHealthyLuckRateProfessionMy WayAcademicHiring Author:Davis Schneiderman
“Even if you are at the peak of your career, and almost everyone is on some type of ladder to success and waiting to get to the top of their profession, but even if you get there is it enough? So think of this now rather than when you get there and not have thought about it before.” ThinkingEnoughWaitingProfession Author:Nicky Gumbel
“I one hundred percent recognize that comedy is a more narcissistic profession and that I cannot directly improve people's lives the way I could if I had stayed in the policy world. But the trade-off is that I'm happier doing jokes.” WorldComedyPolicyJokesProfessionNarcissistic Author:Negin Farsad
“The good thing about rules is if you have to do an interview, and you make some rules for that interview, like, "I can only ask him about five years of his life or her life," it narrows down your story. It's the same thing with acting. In my profession, if I say, "These are the rules for this character," all of the sudden, you create life.” CharacterActingGood ThingsProfession Author:Johan Philip Asbaek
“I'm aware that I'm kind of a paradox, and at times a bit ill-suited to my profession. But there's something that brings me back. There's something in me that feels like I have to do this, that this is what I'm meant to be doing. If I didn't feel this way, I wouldn't do it. But it's full of contradictions, for sure.” KindProfessionContradictionParadoxMeant To Be Author:Emma Watson
“Any profession should have norms around the issue you raise. And, in the words of the great economic thinker Albert Hirschman, we all owe a measure of loyalty to professional norms. But when the norms seem unhelpful or unproductive, one needs to speak up - to activate voice. And in the extreme, if the profession and one's colleagues seem estranged from a thoughtfully selected course of action, you need to consider the possibility of exit. Of course, if you knowingly violate norms or laws, you need to be prepared to face the consequences - or to lead a revolution!” ActionSpeakEconomicPossibilityRevolutionConsequenceProfessionLoyaltyThinkerBe PreparedNorm Author:Howard Gardner
“Growing up, my parents were my heroes in the way they conducted their lives. My dad works in child protection. As kids, our experiences shape our opinions on ourselves and the world around us and that's who we become as adults, because of that experience. He's certainly been my hero. A hero is someone who puts themselves on the line and sacrifices their own safety for the greater good and for others. And I think anyone in any sort of profession where the welfare of other people instead of individual is inspiring and important.” PeopleThinkingWorldChildrenImportantKidsIndividualParentOpinionGrowing UpSacrificeHeroDadSafetyMy DadProtectionProfessionWelfareMy HeroGreater Good Author:Chris Hemsworth
“And to me, that is the greatest danger, that people start questioning basic facts and start not understanding the importance of democratic institutions such as the free press. I mean, to call the press the enemy is dangerous and just remarkably bizarre. The press is the only profession protected in the Constitution because of how important the framers viewed the press. But in authoritarian regimes, they control the press. And to me, going down an authoritarian path is the greatest danger that we face as a republic.” PeopleMeanImportantUnderstandingEnemyPathDangerousDangerImportanceConstitutionDemocraticProfessionQuestioningBizarre Author:Ted Lieu
“The pressure was always there, but I feel like it was almost invisible to me. I had too much going on once I got rolling with Evolution and won my first title. They say the cream rises to the top, and I felt like the cream. I rose to the top real quick, and I was surrounded by Triple H, Ric Flair, Shawn Michaels, Undertaker, these guys who were very well respected in the profession, and they wanted to work with me.” RealGuyEvolutionRoseProfessionInvisibleUndertaker Author:Randy Orton
“Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession... and I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.” RealizingProfessionResemblance Author:Ronald Reagan
“TV is great and can open up doors, but if you aren't there to cook because you love it, don't go. Don't go to "Top Chef" just to be "famous." It's annoying to our profession and what we all love to do. You want to compete against like-minded people.” PeopleProfessionAnnoyingChef Author:Kristen Kish
“Every lawyer, no matter whom they represent, is trying to help someone, whether it's a person, a corporation, a government entity, or a small or big business. To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.” TryingHelpingProfessionLawyerBig Business Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“Relative to the power that movie stars have, and producers and directors, I would say that even the most respected screenwriters have very little power in Hollywood. I don't think it's in the nature of the writer's profession to go after that power. Writers spend their time alone, hallucinating, writing, making these things up, while these other people are out schmoozing, making connections, meeting each other. They are trotting the corridors of power and making sure they've put their own imprints in it. And they're promoting themselves and their images, as they should.” PeopleThinkingWritingMeetingsProfessionProducersRelativeMovie StarMe Alone Author:Robert Towne
“In Hollywood, you tend to get pigeonholed to certain genres, and then when you try to do something different, it's not always so easy. Obviously, you don't want to keep repeating yourself, all the time. So, it's a constant struggle for every filmmaker and actor to find something that you can really feel passionate about. It's a profession like anything else.” TryingDifferentEasyStrugglePassionateProfessionFilmmaker Author:Renny Harlin
“They don't mind getting punched in the face and, more importantly, they don't mind punching other people in the face. I'm just about the movies; I enjoy the dexterity of actors in action movies and the choreography side of things. You've just got to be a different person to be a professional fighter. I train with professional fighters so I know what it takes. It's a very difficult profession, probably harder then the acting profession.” PeopleMindDifferentActionEnjoyDifficultActingTrainProfessionFighterAction MovieChoreography Author:Scott Adkins
“It's always fun to welcome new people into your life. When dating anyone or becoming friends with anyone who has a different profession, a different life, it opens doors. All my friends here do such different creative things. It's so awesome.” PeopleDifferentFunCreativeDatingProfessionWelcome Author:Christopher Bollen
“You're always on duty because you're in a constant state of observation. That's one of the challenges of being a comedian. I think one of the other challenges is that, whether we like it or not, it's a profession that requires failure. It doesn't just encourage failure. It requires it because it's all trial and error. You need to know what doesn't work to know what works.” ThinkingChallengesDutyProfessionObservationComedian Author:Mike Birbiglia
“Life as a performance is just a way to look at life choices as character choices. Every morning you choose what to wear, you choose how to wear your hair, you choose your friends, you more or less choose your profession, and how hard you will work at it. Those are all things that an actor decides about his character when he is performing, and they are things that we decide in life. We create our "character."” CharacterChoicesMorningProfessionPerformingYou ChooseEvery MorningLife Choices Author:James Franco
“I wanted at one point to act, which is a weird thing for men to want to do. It's a very vain profession. I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it. It's like, "Put on some makeup, make me look good. Okay, now I'm going to roll my shoulder." Part of me still feels like, "Wow, that's weird for a man to do."” MenMindOkayProfessionVainOddMakeup Author:Shane Black
“I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me to go into a profession that would be far more secure so I went to medical school. But after practicing medicine for a few years, while raising two sons (with a husband who was also a doctor) I realized that combining medicine with motherhood was more of a challenge than I could handle. So I left medicine and stayed home. And that's when I once again picked up the pen and began to write.” WritingHomeAgeSchoolParentChallengesSonHusbandSevenMotherhoodProfessionMedicalI RealizedPensStorytellerMedical School Author:Tess Gerritsen
“There's a stupid trend in American politics right now with people who have no experience with politics and no grasp of public service as a profession just deciding that they're going to jump into it. The obvious figurehead of this whole "I am an idiot, therefore I can be a politician" is Donald Trump. People think that ignorance of a profession is somehow qualifying for that profession. It's utterly baffling.” PeopleThinkingStupidIgnorancePoliticianObviousProfessionIdiotPublic Service Author:Steve Albini
“People have all these preconceived notions about magicians, like that they're lonely and bitter or they're socially awkward people. I don't know what magician hurt all these people, but I'm constantly having to overcome all these stereotypes. So, no. I'm sure there are just as many magicians who are lonely and bitter as there are comedians, lawyers, or any profession.” PeopleHurtLonelyOvercomingProfessionLawyerBitterComedianAwkwardStereotypeMagicianPreconceived Notions Author:Justin Willman
“I am not allowed by my profession to diagnose somebody from a distance, but one can observe certain symptoms of sociopathy in George W. Bush.” DistanceProfession Author:Martha Stout
“I don't think it's so important to be a movie director. It's a beautiful profession, but no more than to be a cartoon writer. A very rich cartoon writer. I've done a lot of films, and I know deeply that, in all of cinema, there is no director who is as good as Shakespeare.” ThinkingImportantDoneBeautifulFilmRichProfessionCartoon Author:Jesus Franco