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“Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't embrace it. I succumbed to it.”

Writing Embrace Profession Selfish

Author:Rod Serling

“Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!”

Art Beautiful Profession Wretched Beautiful Art

Author:Georges Bizet

“My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage.”

Years Names Profession Hunting Hunts Retired Espionage

Author:E. Howard Hunt

“Flying is the only active profession I could ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.”

War Active Profession Flying Enthusiasm

Author:Wilfred Owen

“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”

Feels Views Impossible Financial Point Of View Profession Lists

Author:Wilfred Owen

“Basically, I would be happy with any profession where I got to be creative and make things.”

Would Be Creative Profession Be Creative

Author:Christopher Paolini

“This reference to the Scots side of her ancestry is the first of two visual explorations into Tori Amos's diverse cultural past. As is the case for many of us, Tori's ancestry is a mix of races and religions, philosophies and professions, fortunes and foibles. What to some may seem like a family tree grown wild and untamed is actually a mighty oak that has weathered life's many storms and can still put out a rare and beautiful blossom like Tori.”

“Making chocolate is a way of life, not a profession.”

Way Profession Chocolate

Author:Jacques Torres

“Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been actuated by a species of enthusiasm in their pursuit of it. They have kept one object in view amidst all the vicissitudes of time and torture.”

Art Views Practice Objects Degrees Excellence Species Profession Pursuit Enthusiasm Torture Vicissitudes

Author:John Knox

“You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. Its logic-based creativity.”

Thinking Might Artist Creativity Creative Logic Profession Programming Programmers

Author:John Romero

“Allow your passion to become your purpose, and it will one day become your profession.”

Purpose Passion One Day Profession Purpose And Passion

Author:Gabrielle Bernstein

“There are some militarists who say: ‘We are not interested in politics but only in the profession of arms.’ It is vital that these simple-minded militarists be made to realize the relationship that exists between politics and military affairs. Military action is a method used to attain a political goal. While military affairs and political affairs are not identical, it is impossible to isolate one from the other.”

Made Action Political Used Goal Realizing Simple Impossible Military Arms Method Affair Profession Not Interested Identical Military Action

Author:Mao Zedong

“Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thing—very often I think a lot of writers write because they have failed to do other things. How many writers can’t drive? A lot. They’re not practical. They are not capable in everyday life.”

Thinking Writing I Can Can Do Capable Everyday Profession Practicals Everyday Life

Author:Ha Jin

“All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing human/Earth relationship.”

Humans Earth Activity Program Institutions Profession Judged Human Activity

Author:Thomas Berry

“All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.”

People World Humans Stories Activity Essentials Profession Cosmic

Author:Brian Swimme

“Art and relligion are not professions: they are not occupations for which men can be paid. The artist and the saint do what they have to do, not to make a living, but in obedience to some mysterious necessity. They do not product to live - they live to produce.”

Men Art Artist Produce Products Paid Saint Profession Mysterious Obedience Occupation

Author:Clive Bell

“Preaching is not a profession, it's a passion! If a man can't preach with passion he shouldn't preach at all.”

Ifs Men Passion Profession Preaching

Author:Leonard Ravenhill

“Preaching is not a profession, it’s a passion”

Passion Profession Preaching

Author:Leonard Ravenhill

“Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.”

Ifs Feels Should Different Hate Brain Terrible Lifetime Profession Surgery Brain Surgery

Author:Wilder Penfield

“Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion, the medical profession, psychoanalysis, the sex industry. Feminists have fought to remove the definition of what a woman is from these masculine institutions and develop their own understandings.”

Men Should Has Beens Social Sex Understanding Industry Institutions Definitions Feminist Profession Medical Behave Remove Masculine Psychoanalysis Medical Profession Social Control

Author:Sheila Jeffreys

“Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.”

Way Music Jazz Profession Miles Plus More Money Jazz Music Mystique

Author:Dizzy Gillespie

“We recognize a tree by its fruit, and we ought to be able to recognize a Christian by his action. The fruit of faith should be evident in our lives, for being a Christian is more than making sound professions of faith. It should reveal itself in practical and visible ways. Indeed it is better to keep quiet about our beliefs, and live them out, than to talk eloquently about what we believe, but fail to live by it.”

Way Should Believe Able Action Christian Spirituality Belief Sound Our Lives Failing Tree Ought Quiet Fruit Profession Practicals Visible Live By Evident

Author:Ignatius of Antioch

“If it isn’t for the writing, we’ve got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let them know it.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Important Knowing Hollywood Profession Screenplays

Author:Irving Thalberg

“I'm going with the flow. I feel when the time is right to stop, it will be flashing in neon lights for me, like this is it. It could be this year, it could be next year, I have no idea. Anyone in their profession seems to think it's fairly clear when it's the right time. I haven't had that moment of clarity.”

“Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.”

Profession Hallmark Jargon

Author:Kingman Brewster, Jr.

“I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.”

Knows Writing Difficult Profession Agonizing

Book:Twins

Source: Twins

“I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession. I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings.”

Thinking Knows Writing Stories Kids Parent Difficult Profession Plot Pizza Backyards Agonizing Toppings

Book:Twins

Source: Twins

“Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.”

Ifs Long Succeed Profession Our Society Professionalism Sportsmanship

Author:Chili Davis

“Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession.”

Ifs Matter Light Order Religious Eternity Profession Worldly Vocation

Book:Edith Stein Essays on Woman

Source: Edith Stein Essays on Woman

“There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.”

Profession

Author:Edith Stein

“Rather than a profession, photography has always been a passion for me, a passion closer to an obsession.”

Passion Photography Profession Obsession

Author:Marc Riboud

“A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.”

Self Law Used Found Example Expression Function Oneself Profession Mediums Seats Chairs Parliament Benches Self Expression Academia

Author:Evan Davis

“I am troubled by the devaluing of the word 'design’. I find myself now being somewhat embarrassed to be called a designer. In fact I prefer the German term, Gestalt-Ingenieur. Apple and Vitsoe are relatively lone voices treating the discipline of design seriously in all corners of their businesses. They understand that design is not simply an adjective to place in front of a product’s name to somehow artificially enhance its value. Ever fewer people appear to understand that design is a serious profession; and for our future welfare we need more companies to take that profession seriously.”

People Needs Facts Values Names Voice Term Company Fronts Design Serious Products Discipline Corners Profession Welfare Designer Apples Our Future Fewer Embarrassed Lone Adjectives Gestalt

Author:Dieter Rams

“Education is such a noble profession, its a wonderful way to serve.”

Way Wonderful Noble Profession Noble Profession

Author:Erin Gruwell

“If architecture is going to nudge, cajole, and inspire a community to challenge the status quo into making responsible changes, it will take the subversive leadership of academics and practitioners who keep reminding students of the profession’s responsibilities.”

Ifs Community Challenges Responsibility Students Inspire Responsible Profession Architecture Status Quo Reminding Subversive Nudge

Author:Samuel Mockbee

“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.”

People States Able Young Games Interesting Levels United United States Events Higher Bigger Profession Chess Pursue Respectable Tournaments Ambassadors Higher Level

Author:Maurice Ashley

“I don't think of myself as a critic or teacher either, but simply - and at the obvious risk of disingenuousness - as someone who teaches, writes drama criticism (and other things) and feels that the American compulsion to take your identity from your profession, with its corollary of only one trade to a practitioner, may be a convenience to society but is burdensome and constricting to yourself.”

Thinking Feels Writing May Teach Teacher Risk Identity Drama Criticism Trade Critics Obvious Profession Compulsion Convenience

Author:Richard Gilman

“It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.”

Wells Use Fields Profession Reputation Experts Embarrassing Nobel Disappointing

Author:David Douglass

“Law is a very addictive profession.”

Law Profession

Author:George Carman

“I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.”

Years Looks Mean Littles Has Beens Care Wanted Easy Sports Our Lives Football Protect Take Care Profession Realising

Author:Vicente del Bosque

“We who are in the arts are at the risk of being in a popularity contest rather than a profession. If that fact causes you despair . . . pick another profession. Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities . . . We have to create our own standards of discipline.”

Ifs Art Facts Reality Desire Causes Risk Discipline Despair Standards Picks Bigger Communicate Profession Our Relationship Popularity Unfair Contests Chaotic Popularity Contest

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession.”

Causes Profession Journalism Wacky

Author:David Talbot

“The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express profound ideas and emotions have ideas and emotions more profound than the rest of us. It isn't so. The ability to express is a special gift with a special craft to support it and is spread fairly equally among the profound, the shallow, and the mediocre.”

People Writing Ideas Belief Grows Ability Emotion Support Special Profound Spread Profession Crafts Mistaken Shallow Mediocre Glamour Mystique Special Gifts

Book:Writing fiction: a guide to narrative craft

Source: Writing fiction: a guide to narrative craft

“The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.”

Music Criticism Musical Profession Immoral

Author:Richard Wagner

“It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group. But one could not say the adverse chance was 1:10. Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad, and then this particular event would be quite likely.”

“...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic equation and the use of logarithms are often of value in ordinary cases: but all beyond these is but a luxury; a delicious luxury indeed; but not be in indulged in by one who is to have a profession to follow for his subsistence.”

Source: Jefferson: Writings

“Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.”

Writing Children Seems Parent Lines Notion Profession Secure Persistence Suggesting Olympian

Author:Susan Orlean

“On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose your fortune, and to give up your civil honor, all for revolutionary conviction, makes for a league of more practical proof than any religious order.”

Giving Children Order Parent Loses Religious Subjects Honor Giving Up Fortune Conviction Profession Proof Practicals Faithful Revolutionary League Loyal Emperor Having Children

Author:Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

“In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.”

Doubt Students Cooking Profession

Author:Fernand Point

“As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it is their chief business, the occupation and aim of life. For me it is a relaxation, a pastime which distracts me from my principal business, my professorship. I love my profession and my science. I love the Academy and my pupils, male and female, because to direct the work of young people, one must be close to them.”

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