Profession Quotes

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

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.

(Salary) certainly is one point of dissatisfaction with teachers and although money is not why someone enters the profession, it is an issue. Teachers need to be able to pay their bills and support their families.

She was committed to her profession as a nurse to serve people and to serve the community she lived in.

My family has been in this business for the last eight generations. But today the profession has failed to fulfil our basic needs of food and shelter.

I know many journalists who would like to comment on the deep structure of their profession and its suck-up to advertisers, not to mention the dominant social order. But their editors won't let them.

It's sad. It's unfortunate that workers in every profession make very bad decisions, but hopefully people will see it's not everybody. I just hope people think priests are approachable. There are priests who are here to do the right thing. I will be faithful. I want to change people's views.

The information in this report is an indispensable resource for juvenile justice practitioners and others in the criminal justice profession. Communities will find this information extremely helpful as they identify specific risk and prevention factors while taking advantage of the community assessment tool available through the First Lady's Helping America's Youth Initiative.

The precision and attention to detail of the legal profession has always excited me. It's just as thrilling as flying an airplane.

It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.

It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.

You just knew they were all talents. On top of being talents, they were intelligent, and they appreciated their profession with a maturity that seemed beyond their years.

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

In my own profession, having watched one firm collapse, it's about self-preservation.

We are not going to apologize for prostitution but we are going to struggle for the dignity of the profession.

The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

Until about four years ago, the Chinese medical profession was still following a version of the diagnostic manual that still listed homosexuality as an illness. That has also changed, but that may not have filtered down into how individual doctors or just ordinary people perceive it. Things have certainly gotten better, though, but this latest raid shows that the government can still step back, as well as forward.

Being a family child care provider, we are somewhat tied down in our profession, both economically and time-wise, because we cannot take the time to go back to school.

We must still sort out difficulties with the dental profession and move stalled negotiations forward.

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

I don't know. It just happens and you love your work and you love your profession, you stay there and you will find each other.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

I never miss an opportunity to meet kids everywhere in Canada because I'm a teacher by profession.

It is very important for the legal profession to be involved in the community. The competition is a wonderful way to promote communication skills, confidence, poise and those kinds of things.

He exemplified the finest traditions of our profession and served his readers well. All of us at Forbes are devastated by what has happened and send our condolences and prayers to his wife and family.