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Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences. -- Honore de Balzac
Professions of humility are the very cream, the very essence of pride; the really humble person wishes to be, and not to appear so. Humility is timorous, and starts at her shadow; and so delicate that if she hears her name pronounced it endangers her existence. -- Saint Francis de Sales
Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic. -- Harsha Bhogle
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions. -- John Morley
There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few. -- Victor Papanek
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly. -- Plato
The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions. -- Junius
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. -- Henry Adams
No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions. -- Patrick J. Kennedy
Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude. -- John Travolta
Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing. -- Peter Singer
The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active intellectual life. -- Emile Durkheim
By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society. -- Ha-Joon Chang
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all. -- Betty Friedan
Without there being some national strategy, it is difficult for educators to know what kinds of engineers or technicians to produce and for potential students to know what professions to study for. -- Ha-Joon Chang
When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to - it leaves nothing. -- Wilfred Owen
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution. -- Henry David Thoreau
In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We don't have enough people going into those fields and there is a high burnout rate in some health care professions, so it is very important that we get more people into the pipeline right now. -- Dave Obey
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits. -- John Locke
Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many. -- Linus Torvalds
The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society. -- Lawrence G. Lovasik
Ladies and gentlemen, on the occasion of my election I received many letters from people representing all segments of the population and all professions, especially from the younger generation, linking my inauguration with great - far too great - expectations. -- Gustav Heinemann
Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap. -- Dee Dee Myers
From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives, high among them cops, doctors, clergymen, journalists and prostitutes. Perhaps that explains why they figure in so much television and cinema. Their lives are lived in the midst of human drama. -- Roger Ebert
What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them. -- Rem Koolhaas
A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law. -- Evan Davis
It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely. -- John le Carre
All professions are... filled with demands. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
In limited professions there's boundless theft. -- William Shakespeare
All professions are conspiracies against the laity. -- George Bernard Shaw
Architecture is changing faster than some other professions. -- Moshe Safdie
Human nature is the same in all professions. -- Laurence Sterne
Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is. -- Will Rogers
Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions. -- Harriet Martineau
Most men have professions, yet few act like professionals. -- Chris Murray
Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions. -- Ann Patchett
I assure you my professions never go beyond my intentions ... -- Elizabeth Inchbald
In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions. -- Rhys Ifans
The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions. -- Derek Bok
Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions. -- Theodore Burghard Hurt Brameld
Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well, -- Clayton Christensen
It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord. -- Francis Bacon
Nice dress you're almost wearing. You ever think about changing professions?" -Ranger -- Janet Evanovich
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As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full. -- Henry David Thoreau
Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America. -- Arthur Erickson
Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting. -- Anjelica Huston
Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over. -- Natasha Leggero
There are professions more harmful than industrial design but only a few of them -- Victor Papanek
The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions. -- Isaac
I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals. -- Jonathan Swift
I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened. -- Marjane Satrapi
In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life. -- Fernand Point
Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions. -- Ludwig von Mises
Modelling is no better or worse than many other professions, but it is more obvious, more accessible. -- Cameron Russell
Being creative isn't confined to a specific set of professions -- everyone can and should be innovative. -- Paul McDonald
Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for. -- Gerald Brenan
The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction. -- Rod McKuen
A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate. -- Tom Colicchio
The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities. -- Dennis Lehane
Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. -- Edgar Allan Poe
The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers. -- Umberto Eco
People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions. -- Jack Welch
It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks. -- Mary Ritter Beard
Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken. -- Martin Filler
I was a frustrated musician, frustrated designer, frustrated art director, frustrated novelist, right. I'd fail at all these different professions. -- Jeffrey Zeldman
Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors. -- John Ralston Saul
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments. -- Cameron Russell
I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private. -- Chris Martin
If you look back on professions, when they became undervalued and paid less, women tended to do better in them. -- Alison Owen
It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks -- Miriam
The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them. -- George Eliot
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
The recent Dictionary of Occupational Titles lists over twenty thousand specialized professions in America; being a millionaire is not one of them. -- Jerzy Kosinski
Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than #"? agriculture -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own. -- Oscar W. Firkins
My concern has always been that people who I portray, or the professions that I portray, are not embarrassed by my portrayal of them. -- George Dzundza
I love research and being educated. It's a great job being able to step into all kinds of professions and into other people's shoes. -- Denzel Washington
I challenge those who are in business and other professions to see that there are copies of the Book of Mormon in their reception rooms. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Throughout history, even the harshest and most shameful measures are regularly accompanied by professions of noble intent - and rhetoric about bestowing freedom and independence. -- Noam Chomsky
I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions. -- Zack Wheat
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
While other professions are concerned with changing the environment to suit the weakened body, chiropractic is concerned with strengthening the body to suit the environment. -- B. J. Palmer
Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it. -- Octavia Butler
Many in the creative professions were nerds in their pasts because they spent so long reading comics and using their imaginations when they were growing up. -- Jim Lee
The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats? -- Dorothy Parker
My opinion with respect to immigration is, that except of useful mechanics and some particular description of men and professions, there is no use of encouragement. -- George Washington
What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction. -- Jean-Francois Lyotard
...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc. -- Charles Fourier
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Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security. -- Alexander Herzen
For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer exists. -- Jean de la Bruyere
My parents have mellowed quite a bit, but, growing up, there was a sense that the only real professions were doctor, engineer, lawyer. Those were your choices. -- Reggie Lee
While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions. -- Ginny Brown-Waite
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
I strongly believe that journalism is one of the most noble professions, because without an informed world, and without an informed society, we are weak, we are weak. -- Christiane Amanpour
While I reiterate the professions of my dependence upon Heaven... I will observe that... no man who is profligate in his morals... can possibly be a true Christian. -- George Washington
Most people who serve in Washington have been trained either as lawyers or as political operatives--professions that tend to place a premium on winning arguments rather than solving problems. -- Barack Obama
Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them. -- Samuel Johnson
Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor. -- George Bernard Shaw
To say that secular means irreligious implies that all the arts and sciences are irreligious, and is very like saying that all professions except that of the law are illegal. -- John Stuart Mill
When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing -- Wilfred Owen
I don't think there is a particular responsibility on designers that is not on other professions... I think there's a responsibility for all of us to engage on all levels. -- Stefan Sagmeister
What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one selected race, Of all professions, and in every place. -- George Crabbe
That education is the most important of all professions is a message the public should hear and understand. And, as importantly, a message that our educators need to hear as well. -- Lowell Milken
In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough. -- Daniel H. Pink
We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can change the character I am playing every couple of months. -- Josh Hartnett
Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because unions are disappearing and because of the global nature of the economy. -- Andy Stern
The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth. -- William Hazlitt
In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and both by precept and example inculcated on mankind. -- Samuel Adams
Our very lives are dependent, for sustenance, on the sweat and sacrifice of the campesinos. Children of farm workers should be as proud of their parents' professions as other children are of theirs. -- Cesar Chavez
Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out. -- Pablo Picasso
The qualities that one needs to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same as to be a good sculptor. In both professions one should have a good relationship with time and space. -- Eduardo Chillida
The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate. -- Naomi Wolf
Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school. -- Henry Louis Gates
In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions. -- Constance Baker Motley

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