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“It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.”

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Author:Dan Quayle

“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.”

“Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.”

Ifs Writing Literature Money Profession Ridiculous No Money

Author:Jules Renard

“Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.”

Ifs Years Shows Film Actors Successful Tvs Percent Profession Chosen Tv Shows Things You Love

Author:Christina Ricci

“In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.”

World Believe Looks May Made Whole Wish Appearance Profession Whole World Exterior

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.”

Life Earth Sports Hero Profession Heroism Being A Hero

Author:Will Rogers

“Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.”

Firsts I Can Choices Term Acting Decided Down And Profession Being The Best Buckles

Author:Mickey Rourke

“The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.”

Knows Children Order Know How Waste Training Philosophical Profession Wasting Time

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.”

States Whole Reality Today Past Church Silence Survival Institutions Profession Medical Arise Machinery Medical Profession

Author:Margaret Sanger

“I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.”

Thinking Should Teacher Teaching Profession Exalted Teaching Profession

Author:Charles Schumer

“My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.”

People Stills States Dream Motivation Universe Speak My Own Acting Successful Profession Accents Businessman Successful Businessman Mr Universe

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.”

Children Important Parent Interest Family Tests Parenting Profession

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.”

Persons Profession Skeptic

Book:Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme

Source: Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme

“Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing.”

Problem Law Ethics Medicine Profession Engineering Nursing Business Ethics Dentistry

Author:Peter Singer

“Every profession will have its rogues, of course, no matter what oaths are sworn, but many health care professionals have a real commitment to serving the best interests of their clients.”

Real Matter Care Courses Interest Commitment No Matter What Profession Health Care Serving Clients Oath Rogues

Author:Peter Singer

“Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.”

Thinking Humans Seems Evil Effects Human Nature Profession Considering Economist Deregulation

Author:Jane Smiley

“Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.”

World Way Trying Running Actors Acting Beauty Fronts Rewards Profession Distinction Entry

Author:Sydney Smith

“What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession then your image of what a good lawyer is is a male image.”

Ifs Grew Grew Up Doctors Males Profession Lawyer Good Lawyer

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.”

Needs Able Cases Position Healthy Normal Profession

Book:Edith Stein Essays on Woman

Source: Edith Stein Essays on Woman

“I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.”

Pride Grateful Profession Lions Mice Apologetic

Book:America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

Source: America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction

“The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.”

Writing Book Seems Horse Profession Racing Stable Book Writing Horse Racing Editing And Writing Business Writing

Author:John Steinbeck

“Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.”

Law Business Profession Shops Stations

Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.”

Funny Political Politics Politician Witty Profession Preparation Politicians And Politics

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“When Americans are asked to rank professions in terms of honesty and ethics, insurance agents routinely end up near the bottom of the list - somewhere between politicians and car salesmen. Generally, insurers are seen as clever hucksters who prey on insecurity and ignorance to sell people what they don't need at prices they shouldn't have to pay.”

People Needs Ends Term Pay Car Honesty Ignorance Politician Ethics Sells Bottom Profession Lists Clever Agents Insecurity Prey Salesman Car Salesman Insurance Agent

Author:James Surowiecki

“In the '50s and '60s, journalism wasn't a profession. It wasn't something you went to college for - it was really more of a trade. You had a lot of guys who came up working in newspapers at the copy desk, or delivery boys, and then they would somehow become reporters afterward and learn on the job.”

Jobs Guy Boys College Trade Profession Newspapers Journalism Copies Desks Reporters Delivery

Author:Matt Taibbi

“Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.”

Profession Ethical Economist

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.”

Thinking Made Force Difficult My Own Wise College Commitment Profession Dancer Justify Interiors Parental

Author:Twyla Tharp

“Being a conductor is kind of a hybrid profession because most fundamentally, it is being someone who is a coach, a trainer, an editor, a director.”

Kind Directors Profession Coaches Editors Trainers Conductor Hybrid Hybridity

Author:Michael Tilson Thomas

“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.”

Want Important Ends Results Economy Position Paid Profession Programmers End Results

Author:Linus Torvalds

“Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.”

World Three Sports Exciting Entertainment Profession Aviation Magnitude Sports Entertainment

Author:John Travolta

“Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks.”

Looks Profession Tied Modeling Tied Up

Author:Christy Turlington

“Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.”

Profession Physics Routine Accurate Prophecy

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.”

Matter Time Understanding Circumstances Mere Depth Appearance Surface Profession Relate Penetrate Hovering

Book:The Improvement of the Mind ... By Isaac Watts, D.D. Also His Posthumous Works Published from His Manuscripts by D. Jennings, D.D. and P. Doddridge

Source: The Improvement of the Mind ... By Isaac Watts, D.D. Also His Posthumous Works Published from His Manuscripts by D. Jennings, D.D. and P. Doddridge

“Being a musician is a noble profession.”

Musician Noble Profession Noble Profession

Author:Paul Weller

“I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get.”

Thinking Looks I Can Different Whole Age Used Joy Careers Appreciate Profession Lenses

Author:Andre Agassi

“But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.”

Work Simple Quality Perfection Satisfaction Profession Expected Luxury Enjoyment Dedication Precision Computer Science Quality Work Job Well Done Personal Satisfaction Dispensable

Author:Niklaus Wirth

“I had parents who believed I could do anything - and I know how that made me feel. I think both my parents, having careers in the medical profession, feel they are helping people on a daily basis, and that was inculcated in me as a value. I had to struggle with giving up the idea of becoming a doctor myself.”

“I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.”

Thinking Teaching Profession Our Society Teacher Appreciation Teaching Profession

Author:John Wooden

“To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.”

Form Father Work Depends Slavery Profession

Book:A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas

Source: A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas

“I wasn't funny as a kid. I remember enjoying comedians, but I never understood it was a job choice or a profession.”

Kids Jobs Remember Choices Enjoy Understood Profession Comedian

Author:Elayne Boosler

“There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.”

People Firsts Political Suffering Politics Friends Politician Ordinary Thirds Profession Temptation Ruins Ordinary Life No Friends

Author:Boris Yeltsin

“In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.”

Common Education Profession Branches Academic Academic Education

Author:Loretta Young

“And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.”

May Source Achievement Add Profession Height Unexpected Modest Really Great Theatrical Chorus Great Achievement

Author:Florenz Ziegfeld

“The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're providing sustenance - it was never pure.”

People Causes Calling Pure Cooking Noble Profession Crafts Providing Feeding Nurturing Sustenance

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.”

Weak Profession Architecture Hearted Short Lived Faint Hearted

Author:Martin Filler

“Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.”

Lasts Practice Majors Profession Architecture Formal

Author:Martin Filler

“I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened.”

Want Happened Profession

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another.”

Men World Kind Moments Body Earth Force Heaven My Own Doubt Wife Integrity Paid Sells Profession Our World Honour Lowest

Book:Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition

Source: Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition