Top 335 Professions Quotes & Sayings

In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.

Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well.

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

One of the things I love about my job is the cornucopia of different professions in one.

The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.

What we used to have in Britain was professions, and then we had industry. Then at some point, maybe with Margaret Thatcher, we suddenly industrialised our professions. And now we have lawyers with products and banks with products, and lecturers and teachers with products.

Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened.

All professions are... filled with demands.

There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.

For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

The best thing that can happen to people entering creative professions is the dwindling of all other possibilities.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

I believe that teaching is one of the most noble professions and it's no easy task to shape the minds of the next generation.

Human nature is the same in all professions.

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.

A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate.

Women do not enter a profession in significant numbers until it is physically safe. So until we care enough about men's safety to turn the death professions into safe professions, we in effect discriminate against women. But when we overprotect women and only women it also leads to discrimination against women. ...If [an employer works] for a large company for which quotas prevent discrimination, they find themselves increasingly hiring free-lancers rather than taking on a woman and therefore a possible sexual harassment lawsuit.

Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we all are reluctant to see them, take on traditionally feminine roles or professions. That is just not something that they do easily.

Planners and designers should encourage as much diversity in human habitats as they find in animal habitats. It is not possible to resolve all conflicts or to gain all ends. Choices have to be made. Different aspects of the public good should be stressed in different places. To achieve variety in land use patterns, there should also be a variety of relationships between the professions, not an institutionalized decision-making tree. Relationships between the constructive professions should, therefore, be deconstructed.

As an African, there are certain professions your family want you to do or are willing to sign off. Being in the medical professional, as a doctor, pharmacist, a nurse, or being an engineer - those are the only professions allowed!

Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.

As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.

It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.

Being creative isn't confined to a specific set of professions -- everyone can and should be innovative.

Cinema and cricket are two professions in this country that people have an opinion on.

In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions.

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.

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.

Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.

Nice dress you're almost wearing. You ever think about changing professions?" -Ranger

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

If you look back on professions, when they became undervalued and paid less, women tended to do better in them.

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.

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.

People have long feared that mechanization might cause mass unemployment. This never happened because, as old professions became obsolete, new professions evolved, and there was always something humans could do better than machines. Yet this is not a law of nature, and nothing guarantees it will continue to be like that in the future.

The concept of an "architect" is one of the oldest professions in the world. Whereas, some professions, such as a "lawyer", have their roots in Latin, "Archi - tecton" is actually a Greek word, and much older. Just knowing how old the profession is gives me hope that we will still exist for years to come, even if we are changing.

I think we have to acknowledge that people are different and succeed at different things, first of all. Men are better than women at some professions like firefighting, construction work, and physics. But women are better than men at some professions, too, like elementary teaching, prostitution, and giving birth. Who's to say which is more important?

I encourage members of the media to attempt to Be Best in their own professions.

There are professions more harmful than industrial design but only a few of them

I think I'm a writer, and it's my job. People in other professions are expected to do their jobs all the time. Why shouldn't I?

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

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

I realized that what we do as professions affects how we act as people, big-time.

Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.

I switched between professions that are like chalk and cheese.

The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.

There's a view in Russian society that there are 'male professions' and 'female professions.' The women should be looking after the home and children. It makes me sad. But the only thing you can do is fight it.

In limited professions there's boundless theft.

Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.

I assure you my professions never go beyond my intentions.

Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.