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“Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it is frowned on to be original. First rule of restoration: follow the intention of the artist. Never try to improve on him.”

Trying Firsts Art Might Artist Originals Intention Profession Restoration

Author:J. M. Coetzee

“I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved.”

Citizens Involved Politician Decided Profession Patriot

Book:A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982

Source: A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982

“'I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China, and continue my profession.' 'As sanitary engineer?' 'No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries of the world.'”

World Country Travel China Profession France Engineers Travel The World Adventurer Yugoslavia Sanitary

Author:Bruce Chatwin

“When government is invested with money power it rises above the citizen and under the profession of protecting him may actually constitute the greatest threat to his well-being and safety. The power which control of the money system gives to government to interfere in and direct and even take the life of the individual should not exist on this earth. No man or group of men is warranted in holding this terrible power over fellow men.”

Men Giving Should Wells May Government Earth Individual Groups Citizens Terrible Direct Safety Fellows Threat Profession Well Being Making Money Interfere Fellow Man Rise Above Money Power

Author:E.C. Riegel

“Fortunately I've got a weak character, so I never did decide to dedicate myself to only one of my professions. And I'm very glad. After all, if I'd rejected chess or music then my life wouldn't have been two times, but a hundred times less interesting.”

Ifs Has Beens Two Character Success Interesting Hundred Weak Profession Chess Glad Rejected Weak Character

Author:Mark Taimanov

“Our words and our works are evidence that our profession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is true.”

Jesus Christ Lord Evidence Jesus Christ Profession Our Words Lord Jesus Christ

Author:Alistair Begg

“Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954

“Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.”

Political Politics Serious Complicated Noble Profession Seriousness

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Connecting is vital for any person who wants to achieve success. It is essential for anyone who wants to build great relationships. You will only be able to reach your potential-regar dless of your profession or chosen path-when you learn to connect with other people.”

People Want Persons Able Path Achieve Essentials Profession Chosen Connecting Great Relationship Chosen Path

Author:John C. Maxwell

“I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.”

Feels Use Today Speak Language Military Profession Warfare

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.”

Creative Teacher Teaching Information Profession Mentor Provoking Delivery Great Teacher

Author:Ken Robinson

“We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.”

Pleasure Duty Delight Profession Driven Holiness Bondage Compulsion Piety Fear Not Fetters

Book:Morning and Evening

Source: Morning and Evening

“Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself.”

Difficult Talent Profession Mediocre Get Ahead Faith In Yourself Avid Sophia

Author:Sophia Loren

“Lawyers are necessary in a community. Some of you...take a different view; but as I am a member of that legal profession, or was at one time, and have only lost standing in it to become a politician, I still retain the pride of the profession. And I still insist that it is the law and the lawyer that make popular government under a written constitution and written statutes possible.”

“When members unite with the church, they should not only make a profession of faith in Christ (that is essential), but in light of 2 Corinthians 10:6 and Hebrews 13:17, etc., they should also agree to submit to the authority and discipline of the church, should they be found delinquent in doctrine or life.”

Should Light Found Christ Church Discipline Members Essentials Authority Agree Profession Doctrine Etc Submit Hebrew Delinquents Corinthians

Author:Jay Adams

“The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement.”

Practice Profession Architecture Engagement Participation Civics Civic Engagement

Author:Samuel

“The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.”

Thinking Men World Success Careers Profession Finest Congratulations Professionalism Career Success

Book:Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2

Source: Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2

“Jack Bogle's passionate cry of Enough! contains a thought-provoking litany of life lessons regarding our individual roles in commerce and society. Employing a seamless mix of personal anecdotes, hard evidence and all-too-often-underrated subjective admonitions, Bogle challenges each of us to aspire to become better members of our families, our professions and our communities. Rarely do so few pages provoke so much thought. Read this book.”

“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 Can Character Four Journey Months Couple Lucky Average Profession

Author:Josh Hartnett

“Don't even think of acting as a profession unless not doing it would cause you to sicken and waste away.”

Thinking Causes Acting Waste Profession

Author:William Lucking

“And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.”

Want Would Be Dancing Profession Chosen

Author:Suzanne Farrell

“What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it.”

Author:Robert Duvall

“I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.”

Profession Defined

Author:Karen Allen

“I developed physically and mentally to take such a big step in my life and in my profession, which is boxing, knowing that it would have pros and cons, highs and lows in this sport that is so macho. I kept this hidden for many, many years.”

Years Bigs Sports Steps Knowing Lows Profession Boxing Macho Highs And Lows Pros And Cons

Author:Orlando Cruz

“Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.”

Inspirational Matter Profession Lawyer Disguise

Author:Thomas More

“Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets.”

Ifs Men Should Wells Helping Body Courses House Secret Holy Sick Harm Profession Physicians Intercourse Divulge

Author:Hippocrates

“With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.”

Law Profession Lawyer Medical Exception Physicians Medical Profession Above The Law

Author:Samuel Hopkins Adams

“We have many responsibilities, and one cannot expect the full blessings of a kind Providence if he neglects any major duty. A man has duties to his church, his home, his country, and his profession or job.”

Ifs Men Kind Country Home Jobs Church Responsibility Duty Balance Blessing Majors Profession Neglect Providence

Book:An enemy hath done this

Source: An enemy hath done this

“One of the most fruitless, irritating wastes in the world is arguing-the contentious, endless kind of arguing that is akin to quarreling, and causes feuding in families and among friends, and leaves resentful feeling in homes, in hearts, in businesses and professions, and in all kinds of gatherings in public and private places, and in all relationships of life-and with so little that it ever seems to settle!”

World Heart Kind Littles Feelings Home Seems Causes Waste Profession Arguing Endless All Kinds Settling Gathering Irritating Contention Resentful Contentious

Author:Richard L. Evans

“One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles.”

Shows Three Trouble Television News Instruments Radio Profession Advertising Dust Journalism Combination Settling Roof Bizarre Show Business Never Settle Television News

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“Law is not a trade, not briefs, not merchandise, and so the heaven of commercial competition should not vulgarize the legal profession.”

Should Law Heaven Trade Competition Profession Merchandise Legal Profession

Author:V. R. Krishna Iyer

“I encounter really tough men and women who are just so harsh, you can't bend them. You do come across these kinds of people in every profession-just unyielding.”

People Men Kind Men And Women Tough Profession Encounters Harsh Unyielding Tough Man

Author:Catherine Keener

“Cooking is in an honest profession where you cannot hide and let others do the work for you. You have to show up, work hard and prove you can do it faster and better. And find a mentor who will recognize your talent and push you in the right direction.”

Hard Shows Can Do Honest Talent Hard Work Prove Cooking Profession Faster Mentor You Can Do It Right Direction

Author:Marcus Samuelsson

“First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.”

Firsts Art Real Philosophy Lasts Ideals Profession Income Plastic Resorts Illustration Art Of Living

Author:Paul Klee

“Likewise 'radical'. I'm only radical because the architectural profession has got lost. Architects are such a dull lot - and they're so convinced that they matter.”

Matter Lost Convinced Profession Radical Dull Architect

Author:Cedric Price

“It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks”

Profession Greek Muse Entering

Author:Miriam

“The efforts of the medical profession in the US to control:...its...job it proposes to monopolize. It has been carrying on a vigorous campaign all over the country against new methods and schools of healing because it wants the business...I have watched this medical profession for a long time and it bears watching.”

Want Long Has Beens Country Age School Jobs Dark Effort Healing Bears Long Time Method Profession Medical Campaigns Propose Dark Ages Vigorous Medical Profession Carrying On

Author:Clarence Darrow

“The FDA and much, but not all, of the orthodox medical profession are actively hostile against vitamins and minerals... They are out to get the health food industry...And they are trying to do this out of active hostility and prejudice.”

“These human experiments have gone largely unchallenged and unquestioned by Congress, the medical profession, and the scientific community at large.”

Humans Age Community Dark Gone Congress Profession Medical Experiments Dark Ages Medical Profession

Author:Ted Gup

“The profession to which we belong, once venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position.”

Age Social Dark Position Profession Medical Dark Ages Degenerates

Author:Nathaniel Chapman

“The individual who violates the rules in a zealous search for an answer to the problem may overstep the bounds and thereby suffer the loss of his relationships to the organized medical profession.”

May Problem Age Suffering Individual Dark Loss Answers Bounds Profession Medical Organized Dark Ages Medical Profession Zealous

Author:Morris Fishbein

“..Radiation...the biggest lobby ...in the world. It's involved in university research. ...industries...the whole medical profession.., the whole military establishment, and the economic and military policy of the country depends on people being willing to handle radio-active materials.”

“The library profession is ... a profession that is informed, illuminated, radiated by a fierce and beautiful love of books. A love so overwhelming that it engulfs community after community and makes the culture of our time distinctive, individual, creative and truly of the spirit.”

Book Beautiful Spirit Culture Individual Community Creative Library Profession Overwhelming Fierce

Book:The Belligerent Profession: An Address Delivered as the Second in the William Warner Bishop Lectureship Series at the University of Michigan, May 22, 1948

Source: The Belligerent Profession: An Address Delivered as the Second in the William Warner Bishop Lectureship Series at the University of Michigan, May 22, 1948

“Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to invent a new institution to cope with it-and almost invariably, these days, it must be an international institution.”

Has Beens Government Politician Majors Scientist Institutions International Profession Invention These Days Outlook

Author:John F. Kennedy

“Engineering is a great profession. There is the satisfaction of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realization in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's high privilege.”

Profession Engineering

Author:Herbert Hoover

“One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge.”

Way Shows Bigs Action Guy Situation Draws Ordinary Extraordinary Dues Profession

Author:Kiefer Sutherland

“With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.”

Persons Philosophy Young Purpose Courage Rich Honesty Life Philosophy Balance Tradition Embrace Historical Rewards Satisfaction Profession

Book:By Land and by Sea: Essays and Addresses

Source: By Land and by Sea: Essays and Addresses

“Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Wells Money Successful Profession Lots Of Money Becoming Successful

Author:Martin Yan

“While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.”

Men Years Made Stills Past Women Pay Men And Women Profession Gaps Earning Stride Parity

Author:Ginny Brown-Waite

“If people are highly successful in their profession they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. They lose their sense of proportion.”

People Ifs Looks Success Sound Loses Successful Conversation Speech Sight Profession Senses Proportion Listening To Music

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf