Profession Quotes

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.

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It’s not an occupation or profession, it’s a compulsion.

They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

Now, being a model and an actor, I’m trying to learn more as my profession demands it.

I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have demoralized, persecuted, so many, including women, gays, non-believers.

It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.

Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.

A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.

The very definition of ‘beauty’ is outside.