Profession Quotes - Page 18

• Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

  Leos Carax

  Cinema, Territory, Way

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• Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.

  Natasha Leggero

  Comedy, Just One

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• Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Politics, Handicrafts, Poisonous

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.335

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• The ethical practices of lawyers are probably no worse than those of other professions. Lawyers bring some of the trouble on by claiming in a sanctimonious way that they are interested only in justice, not power or wealth. They also suffer guilt by association. Their clients are often people in trouble. Saints need no lawyers: gangsters do.

  Lawrence M. Friedman

  Practice, Justice, People

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• Planners and designers should encourage as much diversity in human habitats as they find in animal habitats. It is not possible to resolve all conflicts or to gain all ends. Choices have to be made. Different aspects of the public good should be stressed in different places. To achieve variety in land use patterns, there should also be a variety of relationships between the professions, not an institutionalized decision-making tree. Relationships between the constructive professions should, therefore, be deconstructed.

  Tom Turner

  Animal, Land, Diversity

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• The word smart is not applied to all professions, even if you are smart in that profession. No one talks about smart lawyers. They may say a brilliant lawyer. They'll talk about a creative artist. Smart is saved for scientists. It just is. It's not even really applied to medical doctors. It applies to scientists in the lab figuring out what hadn't been figured out before.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Smart, Artist, Doctors

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• Teachers are not glorified babysitters with summers off. Their profession fuels all others, and on a normal day that is amazing enough in and of itself.

  LZ Granderson

  Summer, Teacher, Fuel

  "The courage of teachers" by LZ Granderson, www.cnn.com. June 18, 2013.

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• The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.

  Jules Renard

  Letters, Ridiculous, Poor

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.245, Tin House Books

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• There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. 'Tis the same argument employed by the ruling few against the subject many in aristocracies; by the rich against the poor in democracies; by the learned professions against the people in all countries.

  Frances Wright

  Country, Ignorance, People

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition”, p.55

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• The general public is easy. You don't have to answer to anyone; and as long as you follow the rules of your profession, you needn't worry about the consequences. But the problem with the powerful and rich is that when they are sick, they really want their doctors to cure them.

  Moliere

  Powerful, Doctors, Medicine

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• Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate betweenthem. When the one comes, the other goes. They could not come together without laughter, or a significant silence, for the one's profession is a satire on the other's, and either's success would be the other's failure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Laughter, Doctors, Silence

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.197, Delphi Classics

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• If anything is evident about people who manage money, it is that the task attracts a very low level of talent, one that is protected in its highly imperfect profession by the mystery that is thought to enfold the subject of economics in general and of money in particular.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Money, People, Levels

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.348, Princeton University Press

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• Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice.

  Joseph Addison

  Work, Luxury, Way

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.65

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• I took the standpoint that the profession of technologist, a man who masters matter, is a masculine profession, if not the only masculine profession there is.

  Max Frisch

  Technology, Men, Mastery

  Max Frisch (1994). “Homo Faber”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am in the theatrical profession myself, my wife is in the theatrical profession, my children are in the theatrical profession.I had a dog that lived and died in it from a puppy; and my chaise-pony goes on, in Timour the Tartar.

  Charles Dickens

  Dog, Children, Wife

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.177

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• There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an irony it would be if fanatics continued to kill and yet it was the apathy and silence of the medical profession that most wounded the ability to provide what is, after all, a medical procedure.

  Anna Quindlen

  Doctors, Rights, Medicine

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• The girl must early be impressed with the idea that she is to be "a hand, not a mouth"; a worker, and not a drone, in the great hive of human activity. Like the boy, she must be taught to look forward to a life of self-dependence, and early prepare herself for some trade or profession.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Girl, Work, Boys

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Country, Jobs, Bankers

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• A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.

  Samuel Richardson

  Religious, Men, Religion

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• In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Success, Jobs, Order

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• My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.

  John Grisham

  Father, Decision, Lawyer

  Twitter post from Jul 29, 2016

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• The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.

  Robert Darnton

  Oxford, England, 1960s

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• I've always had a respect for psychiatry as a profession.

  Rooney Mara

  Psychiatry

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• 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.

  Jude Law

  Reading, Directors, World

  "Jude Law Talks SIDE EFFECTS, GATTACA, EXISTENZ, A.I., SHERLOCK HOLMES 3, His Favorite Comic Books, Future Projects, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 7, 2013.

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• Every time you prefer the pleasures of this world to the joys of heaven, you spit in the face of Christ; every time when to gain in your business, you do an unrighteous thing, you are like Judas selling Him for thirty pieces of silver; every time you make a false profession of religion, you give Him a traitor's kiss; every word you have spoken against Him, every hard thought you have had of Him, has helped to complete your complicity with the great crowd which gathered around the Cross of Calvary, to mock and jeer the Lord of life and glory.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Kissing, Giving, Joy

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