When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.
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.
Beware of any profession for which you must buy new clothes.
Living is a hazardous profession.
Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching.
A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession.
Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience.
When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.
I do my profession, my job, I give me all for my club. . . the rest doesn't matter to me. I don't care what happens on the outside.
Obedience is a hard profession.
Parenting is the most important profession in the world.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people try their hand at this demanding profession (humor columnist). After a few months, almost all of them have given up and gone back to the ninth grade.
So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.
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.
Each profession has its own toolkit.
He was a superb military officer but he was also an extraordinarily gifted politician. That he was an unusually open, honest and no-nonsense politician did not make him unsuited for the profession, only uncommon. In uniform and in politics Barry's purpose was always the defense of freedom. And nobody before or since managed the task more ably or more colorfully than Barry Goldwater.
It's all about finding your voice in whatever your profession. . . it helps your confidence.
Law is an imperfect profession in which success can rarely be achieved without some sacrifice of principle. Thus all practicing lawyers -- and most others in the profession -- will necessarily be imperfect, especially in the eyes of young idealists. There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.
I knew that I liked what I was doing, that it was what I wanted to do for a living, and that the profession didn't really exist so much. So I had to create it. ?
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.