My profession is very important but it's a small part of my life.
Russia is very important, Iran is very important, Hezbollah is very important. All of them are important. Each one made important achievements against the terrorists in Syria, so it's difficult to say who is more important than the other.
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.
I have always believed that my life is more important than my profession and I have never ever allowed my profession to dictate my life.
Respecting every individual is very important. It starts with respecting elders regardless of profession.
For me acting is just a profession. As much passion I have for my profession, I always seperate profession from life.
If I were a writer, the Pulitzer Prize would be important to me. This is my profession, so an Oscar is important.
I've spent my life in the police profession, and I'm proud of that. But I am also very cognizant of the profession's limitations, its potential for abuse, and its potential negative impact.
The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.
I very often get that question: 'What is your real profession?' That's because in Sweden, it is 'not allowed' to have more than one profession - there's something suspicious about it! But nowadays it's more accepted that one can do a lot of things.
There is something inherently foolish in soldiering on when there is no hope of payoff.
It's very important to learn quick lessons from your failures, very important to recognize symptoms of failure pretty early, and it is very, very important to not to be attached too much to the idea - you have to know when to give up an idea.
My very identity as a soldier came to an abrupt end. I'd been soldiering as long as I'd been shaving. Suddenly I'd been told I could no longer soldier, and it felt as though no one really cared if I ever shaved again.
Understanding the importance of evolving is very important. Reinventing is very important. To break what you have already done is very important. That growth should never stop.
I took the standpoint that the profession of technologist, a man who masters matter, is a masculine profession, if not the only masculine profession there is.