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• Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Freedom, Rights

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.219, Best Books on

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Time, Citizens, Politics

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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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• 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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• Architecture is not a profession, it is a discipline.

  Raimund Abraham

  Discipline, Architecture

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• Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Veterans Day, Military

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself.

  Sophia Loren

  Avid, Talent, Mediocre

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Amateurs built the Ark; Professionals built the Titanic.

  Elizabeth May

  Fear, Trying Something New, Ark

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• Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Men, Perception

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• As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.

  Charlton Heston

  Actors

  "Charlton Heston Makes Statement About Alzheimer's". Press Conference, transcripts.cnn.com. August 09, 2002.

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• I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting.

  Christopher Pearse Cranch

  Men, Landscape Painting, Calling

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• Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Family, Children, Parenting

  Everybody's Political What's What? (1944) ch. 9

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• It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.

  Ad Reinhardt

  Thinking, Firsts, Painting

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• What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Work, Important, Ifs

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2014). “The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers Vol II: 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright”, p.222, St. Martin's Press

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• There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Different, Artist

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• Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm , reverence, obedience, and perseverance. As soon as you can, place yourself under the guidance of a master, and remain with him as long as possible.

  Cennino Cennini

  Perseverance, Art, Long

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• If it isn’t for the writing, we’ve got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let them know it.

  Irving Thalberg

  Writing, Knowing, People

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• I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.

  Kent Beck

  Greatness, Professionalism, Habit

  Jay Fields, Shane Harvie, Martin Fowler, Kent Beck (2009). “Refactoring: Ruby Edition”, p.74, Pearson Education

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• Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.

  Paul Tournier

  Life, Family, Marriage

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• Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

  George Orwell

  Doe, Want, Publicity

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• I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.

  S. J. Perelman

  Funny, Beautiful, Girl

  1944 Crazy Like a Fox,'Captain Future, BlockThat Kick'.

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• A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.

  Miriam Defensor Santiago

  Education, Teacher, Jobs

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• Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

  Larry Wall

  Funny, Technology, Three

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• There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination. They look, but they don't see.

  Gordon Willis

  Photography, Imagination, Vision

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• Love is your job description - no matter what you do for a living. If you ever feel unsure of what you're supposed to do in a situation, here's a good rule of thumb: always do what leads to greater love.

  Marci Shimoff

  Love, Inspirational, Jobs

  Marci Shimoff, Carol Kline, Marianne Williamson (2012). “Love For No Reason: 7 Steps to Creating a Life of Unconditional Love”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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