Profession Quotes

My dad is really old school: Whatever you do, just be the best at it. He didn’t really care if I was a plumber or a roofer. It didn’t matter what I did. He said, Go out and find out what you like to do, and be the best at it.

Flattery and criticism are always in our profession.

My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure… I started bartending and waitressing.

Success is what you envisage it to be. You have to go into any profession knowing what you want because people will place expectations on you and their idea of success could taint yours.

Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject… Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control.

The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.

If I’d had the nerve, I’d have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn’t, I became a photographer.

The trick to any profession is making it look easy.

Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.

In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.