My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.
I'm keen to do as little or as much reading and watching as the director may advise, and often off that you kind of stem into other things that you find of influence, perhaps the things that you're watching. It's a good excuse to get to know a new profession, or a new approach, or a new era. It's about authenticity. It's about having the confidence to really feel that you're saturated and know the world you're about to step into and understand the person you're about to be.
The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.
Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose truth we are wholly convinced, one that offers us largest scope in working for humanity and approaching that general goal towards which each profession offers only one of the means: the goal of perfection. . . If he works only for himself he can become a famous scholar, a great sage, an excellent imaginative writer [ Dichter ], but never a perfected, a truly great man.
I am giving this winter two courses of lectures to three students, of which one is only moderately prepared, the other less than moderately, and the third lacks both preparation and ability. Such are the onera of a mathematical profession.
Teaching is a function, not a profession. Anything with something to offer can teach.
Let every man find pleasure in practising the profession he has learnt.
Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat. , Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat. ]
Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. I read less and less fiction these days, finding the buzz and the joy I used to get from fiction in ever stranger works of non-fiction, or poetry.
To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.
I was keen to challenge this vernacular as the role of the photojournalist was changing, and images were becoming urgent and more succinctly linguistic. This is why I moved to publishing artists who were challenging the veracity of both the medium and the profession through their works.
The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [. . . ] One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.
Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list.
I enjoy being an actress a lot, because I can feel different women's lives. I have the chance to feel like a geisha one day, and on another day maybe a scientist. That's the interesting part for me. My profession has helped me to grow up.
The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
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.
Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It’s the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.
I am not confident around people. Maybe, I have become slightly more confident over the years because of my profession.
Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.