Profession Quotes - Page 4

• I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

  Rose Kennedy

  Children, Women, Parenting

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• Work hard at work worth doing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Work, Day Jobs, Labor Day

  Theodore Roosevelt (1967). “Writings”

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• Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Practice, Knows

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• No person, possession, profession, or position ever fills the cup of a wounded, empty heart. It's an emptiness only God can fill.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  God, Heart, Cups

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Aug 15, 2014

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• A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

  Alistair Cooke

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Alistair Cooke (2012). “Reporting America”, p.14, The Overlook Press

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• It would be bypassing the issue to say that the artist's business is to work with this and that material or manipulate the findings of perceptual psychology, and that the rest should be left to other professions.

  Hans Haacke

  Artist, Issues, Psychology

  Hans Haacke (2016). “Working Conditions: The Writings of Hans Haacke”, p.15, MIT Press

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• Financial firms are sending their back-office jobs overseas. But what do fine artists do? They create something new, unexpected, and delightful that changes the world. MFA abilities are harder to outsource and more important in an abundant world.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Jobs, Artist, Office

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• To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Life, Motivational

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• It may be true that there is no God here, but there must be one not far off, and at such a moment one feels His presence; which comes to the same as saying (and I readily give this sincere profession of faith): I believe in God, and that it is His wi

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Believe, Giving, May

  Vincent van Gogh (1959). “Complete Letters: With Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence”

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• You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love.

  John H. Johnson

  Something You Love, Ought

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• Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

  Sophia Loren

  Inspiring, Graduation, Self Esteem

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in and out of sewers and writing gibberish about pipe systems. And none of our our toilets would work.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Running, Art, Writing

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• I'm an artist because that's what I was best at as a kid. It was fun... I continue to be an artist... for the freedom that an art career can bring. I don't need an alarm clock and I am my own boss.

  Mark Kostabi

  Art, Fun, Kids

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• In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Enthusiastic, Jaded

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• Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Pain, Common Sense

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• I'm still not sure what pulled me into the career I chose, even though, now, I can't imagine having done anything else. Mostly, I think I wanted to be a writer, or at least to try for a while.

  Peter Gzowski

  Thinking, Careers, Trying

  Peter Gzowski (2001). “A Peter Gzowski Reader”, McClelland & Stewart Ltd

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• I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

  Charlie Rose

  Directors, Architecture, Film

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. April 2, 2013.

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• At a certain point you have to make a decision in your life about where will you best serve, and I decided that I would best serve as a producer as opposed to a studio executive. There are many upsides to being the studio executive, but one of the downsides is that you get removed from the actual process of making the movie.

  Adam Leipzig

  Decision, Process, Certain

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• My art career actually began under the kitchen table. My mother wanted to get me out of her hair while she cooked, so she laid out some paper and pencils on the floor under the kitchen table.

  Alton Tobey

  Mother, Art, Hair

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• Painting done under pressure by artists without the necessary talent can only give rise to formlessness, as painting is a profession that requires peace of mind.

  Titian

  Artist, Giving, Mind

  "The Quotable Artist". Book by Peggy Hadden, p. 71, 2002.

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• I print giclees for artists and photographers for a livelihood. My original idea was to somehow combine the two.

  Donald Lambert

  Artist, Ideas, Two

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• It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call yourself an artist and you can do all these things.

  Jan Peacock

  Artist, Poet, Epiphany

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• Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that paintings are produced.

  Jim Rowe

  Artist, What Matters, Pay

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• My career doesn't depend on painting Bill Clinton.

  Nelson Shanks

  Careers, Bills, Painting

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• The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.

  T. Allen Lawson

  Artist, Transition, Lines

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