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

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. — Ezra Taft Benson

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them. — George Eliot

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors. — John Ralston Saul

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

All professions are ... filled with demands. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Not too many professions out there that value forgetfulness. Prostitution, maybe. Politics, of course. — Jonathan Nolan

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

Modelling is no better or worse than many other professions, but it is more obvious, more accessible. — Cameron Russell

A profession that completely matches your talent, aspirations and skills is the best profession you can choose. — Eraldo Banovac

It's a law of the universe that 87 percent of all people in all professions are incompetent. — John Gardner

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

I assure you my professions never go beyond my intentions ... — Elizabeth Inchbald

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own. — Oscar W. Firkins

As writing is one of the desperate professions, it has universal appeal, especially for those not engaged in it. — W. H. Auden

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions. — Harriet Martineau

People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions. — Jack Welch

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it. — Octavia Butler

The 'verbalizers' may eventually be successful in careers where verbal abilities are an advantage, for example journalism or the legal professions, — Tony Attwood

our professions, as presently organized, often discourage self-help, self-discovery, and self-reliance; — Richard Susskind

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is. — Will Rogers

All professions are conspiracies against the laity. — George Bernard Shaw

There are more ways to choose a profession. One can choose it by
intention, by strong parental influence or even by accident. — Eraldo Banovac

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. — Zack Wheat

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions. — Moshe Safdie

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

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

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions. — Derek Bok

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

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

I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private. — Chris Martin

Compared to art, all other professions are but chores. — T.L. Rese

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

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

Work destroys your soul by stealthily invading your brain during the hours not officially spent working; be selective about professions. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Unless men work at occultism as they work for the prizes of their professions they will not achieve. — Dion Fortune

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

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

Human nature is the same in all professions. — Laurence Sterne

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

Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions. — Ludwig Von Mises

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

All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story. — Brian Swimme

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

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

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

He learned that kisses and touches and professions of love could make you forget. — Cassandra Clare

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

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

Irishmen are best at the specially hard professions - the trades of iron, the lawyer, and the soldier. — G.K. Chesterton

Lover of love. I adore love letters, and professions of love, and true, heartfelt moments when two people know they're meant for each other. — Lauren Blakely

Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves. — Thomas Browne

I was a frustrated musician, frustrated designer, frustrated art director, frustrated novelist, right. I'd fail at all these different professions. — Jeffrey Zeldman

All professions have some element of theater to them. — David Halberstam

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly. — Plato

My concern has always been that people who I portray, or the professions that I portray, are not embarrassed by my portrayal of them. — George Dzundza

As profession recognizes profession, so, too, does vice. — Marcel Proust

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? — Richard Greenberg

The recent Dictionary of Occupational Titles lists over twenty thousand specialized professions in America; being a millionaire is not one of them. — Jerzy Kosinski

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

Unlike those in other professions, artists cut the branch they are sitting on. — Sarah Thornton

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

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

I love research and being educated. It's a great job being able to step into all kinds of professions and into other people's shoes. — Denzel Washington

Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting. — Anjelica Huston

Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments. — Cameron Russell

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

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

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing. — Peter Singer

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

Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well, — Clayton Christensen

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions. — John Lothrop Motley

High-quality professions look decently, think profoundly, and act thoughtfully. — Pearl Zhu

Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions. — Theodore Burghard Hurt Brameld