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  • I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.

    P. T. Barnum (2013). “The Humbugs of the World”, p.268, Lulu.com
  • Writing is not a profession, occupation or job; it is not a way of life: it is a comprehensive response to life.

  • But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.

  • In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then, he writes; and if he doesn't feel the urgent need of writing, there are dozens of professions in which it is easier to earn a comfortable living.

    Writing   Men   Doe  
  • Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

    Art   Men   Perception  
  • Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.

  • Conjuring is the only absolutely honest profession - the conjuror promises to deceive, and does.

    Magic   Promise   Doe  
  • I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for several years. Which is trying to find a way to not let the insecurity of my profession get the better of me and make me crazy. I'm trying to find a way to maintain my own personal balance in the midst of everything.

    Crazy   Thinking   Years  
  • Composing is not a profession. It is a maniaa harmless madness.

    1951 I Am a Composer.
  • I wasn't sued out of medicine, I wasn't arbitrated out of the profession.

  • The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.

    Needs   World   Claims  
  • You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and the relationship. You have just a profession.

    "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.
  • One's dream is constantly evolving, rising and falling, changing course. This happens in every job, but because I have worked in comedy for twenty-five years, I can probably speak best about my own profession.

    Dream   Jobs   Fall  
    Honorary Degree Recipient Conan O'Brien's Commencement Address to Dartmouth College Graduates, www.dartmouth.edu. 2011.
  • All professions are... filled with demands.

  • Where else, in a non-totalitarian country, but in the political profession is the individual expected to sacrifice all-including his own career-for the national good?

    John F. Kennedy (2015). “Profiles in Courage: Deluxe Modern Classic”, p.15, Harper Collins
  • Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

    Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.349, University of Chicago Press
  • 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 (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.114, Sophia Institute Press
  • The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the walls are falling down. We are painters and we paint. If I were a sculptor, I'd sculpt.

    Art   Wall   Fall  
  • Just know that it’s fear that keeps most people working at a job. The fear of not paying their bills. The fear of being fired. The fear of not having enough money. the fear of starting over. That’s the price of studying to learn a profession or trade, and then working for money. Most people become a slave to money… and then get angry at their boss.

    Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.49, Robert Kiyosaki
  • I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

    Francis Bacon, John Blackbourne, George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (1730). “Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. Proposition for compiling and amendment of our laws. II. Offer of a digest of the laws. III. Elements, or, Maxims and use of the common law. IV. Cases of treason. V. Four arguments in law ... VI. Draught of an act. VII. Ordinances in chancery. VIII. Reading on the statute of uses. IX. Resuscitatio ... X. Charges. XI. Speeches. XII. Observations on a libel, &c. XIII. Report of Lopez's treason. XI”, p.15
  • There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well

  • How do we handle adversity? Adversity is going to be with us in everything that we do, almost in every facet of our lives-in our personal associations, in the mission field, in our chosen professions, in our families.

  • Life as a performance is just a way to look at life choices as character choices. Every morning you choose what to wear, you choose how to wear your hair, you choose your friends, you more or less choose your profession, and how hard you will work at it. Those are all things that an actor decides about his character when he is performing, and they are things that we decide in life. We create our "character."

    Source: i-d.vice.com
  • Writing ... is a profession that can only be learned by writing.

    Simone de Beauvoir (1965). “The prime of life”
  • In my profession more generally, it's not an exaggeration to say that masculinity is viewed as the root of all evil. If you were to take a literary theory course, you might think it would be about literature, but it's really not. It's about all the various forms of oppression on earth and how we can see them playing out in literary works. And behind all these forms of oppression is a guy.

    "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.
  • Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.335
  • We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.

    Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.306, Counterpoint Press
  • Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself.

    Avid   Talent   Mediocre  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    Jobs   Law   Liberty  
  • Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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