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

  Will Rogers

  Life, Sports, Hero

  Quoted in'A RogersThesaurus' inThe Saturday Review, 25 Aug 1962. Another form of the quote appeared in a syndicated newspaper article,15 Feb1925: 'Heroing is one of the shortestlived professions there is'.

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• Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.

  Ogden Nash

  Men, Care, Professionalism

  'I Yield to my Learned Brother' (1935)

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• The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.

  John Steinbeck

  Horse, Book, Writing

  "The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights". Book by John Steinbeck, 1976.

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• No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

  Horace

  Art, Men, Psychology

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• Preaching is not a profession, it’s a passion

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Passion, Preaching

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

  Charles Lyell

  Money, Credit, Debit

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• The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

  James A. Baldwin

  Knowledge, Science, Government

  "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1961.

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• Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Perfect, Acting, Actors

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• Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Education, Teacher

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  Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Funny, Witty, Political

  Familiar Studies of Men and Books "Yoshida-Torajiro" (1882)

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• To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

  Virginia Woolf

  Father, Work, Slavery

  Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). “A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas”, p.173

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• When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Nature, Learning

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• Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.

  James Bryce

  Science, America, Practice Of Medicine

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• Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Time, Citizens, Politics

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• It is a great profession. There is the fascination 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 jobs and homes to men. Then it elevates the standards of living and adds to the comforts of life. That is the engineer's high privilege.

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Moving, Home

  Herbert Hoover (1951). “The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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• Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Character, Exercise

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• Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

  Oscar Wilde

  Romance, Privilege, Income

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.215, Wordsworth Editions

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• My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion; but when a healthy wind blows, they fall accordingly.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Money, Fall, Blow

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• Look, when you're the president, there's all kinds of things said about us. I mean, it's just the nature of the job.

  George W. Bush

  Jobs, Mean, President

  "Bush admits mistakes, defends decisions". www.today.com. November 3, 2010.

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• I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.

  Ben Kingsley

  Thinking, Curves, Names

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• I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.

  Chuck Jones

  Jobs, Pay, Wanted

  Chuck Jones, Maureen Furniss (2005). “Chuck Jones: Conversations”, p.161, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it became a difficult choice for me as to whether to major in music or literature. It wasn't until my 30s that I began a profession in music.

  Tom Glazer

  Difficult Choices, Literature, Grew

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• Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Mad, Mathematics, Proportion

  John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.103, Cambridge University Press

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• If you're looking for work and have a choice of a job, choose a job that allows the opportunity for some creativity, and for spending time with your family. Even if it means less pay.

  Dalai Lama

  Jobs, Creativity, Mean

  The Dalai Lama, Howard C. Cutler, Dalai Lama, Howard Cutler (2005). “The Art Of Happiness At Work”, p.62, Hachette UK

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• To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Jobs, Ungrateful, World

  Phyllis McGinley (1965). “Sixpence in Her Shoe”

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