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• Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been actuated by a species of enthusiasm in their pursuit of it. They have kept one object in view amidst all the vicissitudes of time and torture.

  John Knox

  Art, Views, Practice

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilber, p. 208, 1895.

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• You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. Its logic-based creativity.

  John Romero

  Creativity, Artist, Thinking

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• Allow your passion to become your purpose, and it will one day become your profession.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Passion, One Day, Purpose

  Twitter post from May 23, 2012

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• There are some militarists who say: ‘We are not interested in politics but only in the profession of arms.’ It is vital that these simple-minded militarists be made to realize the relationship that exists between politics and military affairs. Military action is a method used to attain a political goal. While military affairs and political affairs are not identical, it is impossible to isolate one from the other.

  Mao Zedong

  Military, Simple, Goal

  "On Guerrilla Warfare".

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• Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thing—very often I think a lot of writers write because they have failed to do other things. How many writers can’t drive? A lot. They’re not practical. They are not capable in everyday life.

  Ha Jin

  Writing, Thinking, Everyday

  FaceBook post by Ha Jin from Dec 01, 2012

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• All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing human/Earth relationship.

  Thomas Berry

  Earth, Program, Institutions

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• All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.

  Brian Swimme

  People, Essentials, Stories

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• Art and relligion are not professions: they are not occupations for which men can be paid. The artist and the saint do what they have to do, not to make a living, but in obedience to some mysterious necessity. They do not product to live - they live to produce.

  Clive Bell

  Art, Men, Saint

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• Preaching is not a profession, it's a passion! If a man can't preach with passion he shouldn't preach at all.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Passion, Men, Preaching

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• Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it.

  Wilder Penfield

  Hate, Brain, Different

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

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• Men have been adjudicating on what women are, and how they should behave, for millennia through the institutions of social control such as religion, the medical profession, psychoanalysis, the sex industry. Feminists have fought to remove the definition of what a woman is from these masculine institutions and develop their own understandings.

  Sheila Jeffreys

  Sex, Men, Feminist

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• Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Music, Way, Jazz

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• We recognize a tree by its fruit, and we ought to be able to recognize a Christian by his action. The fruit of faith should be evident in our lives, for being a Christian is more than making sound professions of faith. It should reveal itself in practical and visible ways. Indeed it is better to keep quiet about our beliefs, and live them out, than to talk eloquently about what we believe, but fail to live by it.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Christian, Believe, Tree

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• Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

  Harriet Martineau

  Class, Excellence, Moral

  Harriet Martineau (1838). “How to Observe: Morals and Manners”, p.85, Transaction Publishers

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• I'm going with the flow. I feel when the time is right to stop, it will be flashing in neon lights for me, like this is it. It could be this year, it could be next year, I have no idea. Anyone in their profession seems to think it's fairly clear when it's the right time. I haven't had that moment of clarity.

  Lindsay Davenport

  Thinking, Ideas, Light

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• Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Jargon, Hallmark

  Address to the British Institute of Management, December 13, 1977.

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• I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Writing, Agonizing, Difficult

  Caroline B. Cooney (2012). “Twins”, p.188, Open Road Media

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• It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

  Dan Simmons

  Writing, Relax, Exhausted

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• Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession.

  Frederick Sanger

  Father, Careers, Medicine

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• Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

  Jaron Lanier

  Powerful, Class, Musician

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• Honestly, as hard a profession as acting is, I think music is even harder. Acting, you're like a leech, because someone else does the hard part for you. They write it for you, then the director tells you what to do. You really just need to know how to pay attention, follow instructions.

  Michael Shannon

  Writing, Thinking, Acting

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• I don't do stunts and I don't think many actors do. For an actor to say they do their own stunts I don't think is very respectful of the profession of stunt men and women.

  Nick Stahl

  Men, Thinking, Actors

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• It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

  Audrey Tautou

  Might, Likes, Limelight

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• When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance.

  Mo Yan

  Important, Doe, Literature

  "Mo Yan accepts Nobel prize, defends 'necessary' censorship" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

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• I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn't something I ever thought about.

  Don McLean

  Guitar, Play, Family And Friends

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