We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
George Bernard Shaw
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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
George Bernard Shaw
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
George Bernard Shaw
A profession is the backbone of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.
Horace Mann
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.
Samuel Butler
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Jules Renard
Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son m'etier (God will forgive me. It's his profession).
Heinrich Heine
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
William Hazlitt
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
Eric Hoffer
Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.
Nickolas Muray
This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.
Lawrence Korb
It's really unfair to our young teachers and discouraging them from entering the profession, particularly in the most challenging teaching environments where they're most needed.
Barry Wilson
[Law is] an odd profession that presents its greatest scholarship in student-run publications.
Morton J. Horwitz
All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.
William Hogarth
I was simply defending my profession and my passion.
Dick Pound
We are reaching a low point in the history of the profession. And as we eventually emerge from this it will be with a better profession, and a better financial market.
Art Bowman
I'm really fascinated by someone who chooses worst-case scenarios as a profession. Someone who obviously thrives on crisis.
Carla Gugino
It bothers me a great deal. Because I like to think members of the profession are honest. That's what the law is all about.
Linda Willard
I'll get in (to the profession). I'll prove myself and then I'll return it.
Hector Fernandez
Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
Henry R. Luce
We as a profession got caught up in the crossfire - we put in a fairly strong set of concerns to the Assistant Treasurer and the tax commissioner.
Mukesh Haikerwal
Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
Lord Northcliffe
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
Dan Quayle
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.
James Bryce
When they do understand, it is eye-opening because teaching is generally understood to be an underpaid profession.
Mike Alfred
I never miss an opportunity to meet kids everywhere in Canada because I'm a teacher by profession.
Stephane Dion
My decision to do this has nothing to do with politics. It has nothing to do with my profession. It has everything to do with my family.
American Citizen
Scotty lived and breathed lacrosse. Officiating was a big, big part of his life. He reached the highest level of the profession and was extremely well-liked by his fellow officials, well-respected by coaches at all levels.
Butch West
My father wasn't a big baseball fan. However, he thought it would be a better profession then football.
Tommy Giles
I'm completely done at this point. It came to a point where I said to myself, 'Why I am doing this?' I've seen and heard of too many deaths, especially those in my profession.
Warren Zinn
HOMOEOPATHIST, n. The humorist of the medical profession.
Ambrose Bierce
He's an outstanding man. He's truly loves the kids, and he's given a lot to his profession.
Ronnie Bond
When you do that, you can give it your best. I'm proud of my profession and how teaching makes a difference in the lives you touch. I love what I do and I'm grateful for the opportunity to do it.
Diane Evans
She told me to think again. She told me if I had lost 300 games, she'd make sure I was in a different profession.
Phil Danaher
A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.
Martin H. Fischer
No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics.
Irving R. Kaufman
Accounting is a hot domain with the number of accounting majors up nationwide. I think the recent scandals have brought a new level of attention to the accounting profession as gatekeepers and custodians of social interest.
Paul Browne
Sam is one of several potential candidates. He has a chance because he is an Englishman at the top of his profession.
Phil Gartside
I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays.
Gael Garcia Bernal
(Salary) certainly is one point of dissatisfaction with teachers and although money is not why someone enters the profession, it is an issue. Teachers need to be able to pay their bills and support their families.
George Jackson
He's one of those guys, you talk to him a few minutes and you like him. He has a good reputation among the force. We're in a profession that is a little closed, socially.
Dennis W. Mcmaster
I don't want to be called 'the greatest' or 'one of the greatest'; let other guys claim to be the best. I just want to be known as a clown because to me that's the height of my profession. It means you can do everything-sing, dance, and above all, make people laugh.
Red Skelton
It's hard to describe our profession without mentioning an anesthesiologist. The medical profession has anesthesiologists and we work directly with the anesthesiologists. We do a lot of the same stuff that they do.
Dave Breitenfeld
Conducted with rigor and in full accord with the standards of [the accounting] profession.
Arthur Andersen
You have certainly set an example that our profession would be better off if all lawyers would emulate the service you have rendered.
Robert Ingram
Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.
Christiane Amanpour
It's exciting for me to be in a position like that where you can kind of be a part of the game that's considered the pinnacle of your profession. The fact that you come from Millersville, or the fact that you come from USC, it's kind of the same as far as your desire or your passion for this game.
Will Lewis
I understand the profession. When the offense is not productive, it falls on my shoulders. I'm not happy with the decision, but I have to move on.
Dan Werner
How important this job is. Entering this profession is not only noble, but absolutely necessary for the future -- for our state and our country.
Suellen Reed
We have a working style that, for many, maybe takes some getting used to. And if you approach something differently, you always have to expect a headwind - but that is not a problem for me, because there are always different opinions in every profession.
Juergen Klinsmann
It was very rewarding to help them with their start in the profession. That's very gratifying.
Tom Conway
There seems to be some controversy about the machines. There is concern from the pharmacy profession that you're losing that contact with the patients when they're receiving pharmaceuticals from the machine.
Patricia Harris
You either love the profession or not. There can be no halfhearted efforts.
Connie Gens
What we've got to do is look at the individual that was indeed detained and what was he doing, regardless of what his profession is, ... That's a 'no'.
Patrick Lynch
Mrs. Graham was an important and remarkable person in our profession and all of us lucky enough to know her are deeply saddened by her untimely death.
Walter Isaacson
The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.
Andrew Sullivan
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James Baldwin
I like the opportunities that a sales profession offers. I have the capacity to work hard and truly feel that I'm self-employed even though I have a great company behind me.
Tricia Erps
The ideal is to have the losing party feel that he is not the victim of the judge, but simply the object of a profession that is the same for all.
Irving R. Kaufman
I had turned my anxiety into my profession.
Francois Jacob
He was a banker's banker. He saw banking not just as a business and a profession but as a way to give back.
Bruce Baker
If they had a profession at all, it had to be a noble cause. Now, it is about glamour, money, and fame.
Nisha Singhania
There's more consensus . . . within the economics profession about how the world works than there was in the 1950s, '60s and '70s.
Allan H. Meltzer
The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again.
Liv Ullmann
HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises.
Ambrose Bierce
I think it's imperative to follow your heart and choose a profession you're passionate about, and if you haven't found that "spark" yet, if you're not sure what you want to do with your lives - be persistent until you do.
Steve Kerr
It has been by far the most significant institutional change within the profession.
Barry Bosworth
[Matthews described Huffman as a nice man who loved the law and loved lawyers.] Judge Huffman was kind of like the Horatio Alger story, ... He prided himself on his humble beginnings, and thanks to the military and public education, he was able to rise to the highest level of his profession.
David Matthews
In our profession when something happens, everybody always wants to help. That's what we do.
Glenn Tschann
When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns. So, I took up the sport more as a recreation than profession.
Gagan Narang
The debate, which is one the museum profession has had for 25 years, began when corporate people started getting on boards of non-profits.
Frank Goodyear
The town management profession is generally one that has a certain amount of volatility to it, whether it's volatility the manager him- or herself instigates or the council or selectmen who instigate that volatility.
Michael Starn
It's something that reflects pride in their profession.
Joe Thornton
That's really probably accurate. (Michelle) is pretty laid back. She's organized in an unorganized sort of way, which you have to be with three kids. Lake's more of a perfectionist, which you have to be in the medical profession.
Pam Potson
What he did was to demonstrate to a very skeptical and rather sometimes indifferent profession ... that the history of black Americans was a legitimate field for scholarly inquiry and investigation.
Leon Litwack
Arms is a profession that, if its principles are adhered to for success, requires an officer do what he fears may be wrong, and yet, according to military experience, must be done, if success is to be attained.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
It's just a good career move for me, an opportunity to experience other aspects of the legal profession.
Tab Hunter
The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
Carson Mccullers
I was incredibly saddened and disappointed that this person who had devoted her life to the legal profession never had a chance to go before the Senate Judiciary Committee and get a hearing.
Jerry Clements
Willie Jeffries told me that, and Bill Hayes told me that as well. If you worry what others say about you, then you won't last long in the coaching profession.
Coach Kermit Blount
That's one great thing about my profession, traveling to locations.
Dean Stockwell
Heather is one of the up-and-coming coaches in our profession. I loved her competitiveness as a player and am excited to have her on the Utah volleyball staff.
Beth Launiere
I think this is the golden age for our profession.
Terry Paulson
I'd had no eye on the theater at all [as a profession] until that moment, even though I'd been going to the theater since early childhood. But it was that magical production that made me decide to become an actor. I saw it 17 times.
Lynn Redgrave
An honor like this is overwhelming as a teacher, ... The profession is about giving to others and improving their level of play. I believe in the saying that it is more important to give than to receive.
Peter Krause
We must still sort out difficulties with the dental profession and move stalled negotiations forward.
Shona Robison
This is as big as it gets within the baseball coaching profession. It's a tremendous honor and I feel it really validates my career.
Bernie Walter
We wanted an image of Zachariah Connell, but no portraits are known to exist, so we created a hypothetical one, based on period dress and Connell's profession.
Tony Grasso
The economics profession in general is paying more attention to the cost of lives cut short or curtailed by injury and illness. The whole tobacco issue has encouraged this research.
David Gold
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Henry Ward Beecher
I think, in summary, he's a giant among midgets in his profession.
Jerry Goldstein
Mr. Lund's lifetime achievement in his profession has benefited our community and many of his fellow professionals.
Todd Christensen
This is essentially another pathway into the profession. It's a little more intensive, but it actually offers access into the profession and the ability to practice medicine with a smaller financial output.
Suzanne York
Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.
Joan Allen
It's a lot like sports. This is a very competitive business. It's not the type of profession that's long-lasting, that one can depend on for a long period of time. That's the scary part of it.
Andy Hirsch
From the outset your evidence was unconvincing. You are a young man entering the bookmaking profession and we know you have expressed a desire to continue the family tradition. You have got to expect scrutiny.
Ray Murrihy
HARLOW: "I was reading a book the other day . . . the guy said machinery is going to take the place of every profession."/ DRESSLER: "Oh, my dear, that's something you'll never have to worry about."
Jean Harlow
There is no greater reward in our profession than the knowledge that God has entrusted us with the physical care of his people.
Dr. Elmer Hess
I don't know if it's the best place to find investment bankers. But in our profession, you can use these sites to gauge a person's creativity.
Jeff Benjamin
The sense that everybody in London has is that in five years' time, compliance will be a functional profession.
John Board
Finest ideals of the acting profession.
Shirley Temple
I was likened to Neville Chamberlain. I was a Quisling, to the (journalism) profession.
Matt Cooper
It's all about the power of touch, which the medical profession is starting to learn has amazing healing properties.
Brad Stuart
We will never feel safe in a hospital again. We will never feel we can trust the medical profession again.
John Shanagher
To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
Irving R. Kaufman
Cheating is baseball's oldest profession.
Thomas Boswell
RE/MAX represents the top of our profession and it provides excellent services to agents and clients.
Jim Hanson
My humiliating profession of decomposer of music.
Charles Gounod
Nursing is a calling, a dedication to a profession. It's really rewarding to walk in a hospital and see graduates of your class working there.
Marilyn Bouldin
I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.
Simone Signoret
I ran a Bible study group and held Christian services for Americans in the province, did some counseling and was able to lead three people to the Lord who made a profession of faith, which was exciting.
Joe Kieras
It all goes to a philosophical difference. It is a philosophical dispute over what is drug court and how to help people with an addiction. There is a big difference of opinion in the legal profession of what is the right thing to do.
George Collins
He was tremendously insightful. He had a lot of passion and compassion in his profession.
David Swanson
I enjoy helping people, sappy as that sounds. I am actually a chef. I left the profession to pursue something more noble.
Christopher Ryan
The addition of specialists and adding to the overall staff of the hospital, that's important. And it speaks well of the community as a place that is attractive to those kinds of people in that profession. Once you have those kinds of people, then you have people who come in to use those professionals. So it's kind of a circle, and growth begets growth.
Donald Brookshire
The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows.
Shuler Hensley
No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.
Shirley Bassey
Unfortunately, that is the way things work out sometimes in our profession. You're not out there cheering for someone to get hurt, but the fact of the matter is that's how opportunities come about, and I was able to come in and do the job.
Alejandro Moreno
Who hateth me but for my happiness? Or who is honour'd now but for his wealth? Rather had I, a Jew, be hated thus, Than pitied in a Christian poverty; For I can see no fruits in all their faith, But malice, falsehood, and excessive pride, Which methinks fits not their profession.
Christopher Marlowe
Debt can be character-forming, but we don't want it to be so crushing that they then conclude they can't go to graduate school or that they can't get into a particular profession because most of their money goes to repay debt instead of going into a savings plan.
Karen Foley
The fact that we love each other, the fact that we are blind and we share a passion for music and a profession means that we are always together.
Amadou Bagayoko
There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.
Gerald F. Lieberman
We've been able to bring Chattanooga more convenience for physical therapy, ... Before we got started, patients had to drive downtown or to hospitals and walk great distances from parking lots for physical therapy. We were sort of pioneers in helping expand the availability and accessibility of physical therapy and elevate the profession.
Don Howe
The sale of the painting is a disservice to artists, to art, to architecture, to the architecture profession and to the public.
Philip Johnson
All we have to do to solve the whole controversy is have the medical profession come forward (and) lay the guidelines down, ... The guidelines say only certain doctors can do it, and if you don't, we're going to punish you.
Jack Kevorkian
During the spring of 2003, as the war in Iraq raged across TV screens and in the pages of the press, 16 members of the media profession provided both the ink and the blood.
Chris Cramer
This disrespect to our profession is not going to fly.
Patricia Friend
Sometimes your fate in this profession is decided by a field goal. Two of our biggest games last year we're decided by safeties. Safeties.
Bob Scucci
It was to recognize the profession, the many individuals that do a good job.
Becky Wilson
It's definitely an outlet. I'm trying to relieve the stress of the legal profession.
Todd Stewart
We had a chance to sit down and have a little one-on-one conversation, which was good. I thought he was really good. I thought some of the points he spoke about were certainly applicable to any profession.
Rich Cavanaugh
The difference between the girls today and models of the past is that we are not only interested in fashion: we are going in so many different directions at once. We work harder -- at night and on weekends. [On the modeling profession].
Claudia Schiffer
One of the most damning indictments of the media profession is that reporters provide the ink and others provide the blood.
Chris Cramer
We want to give something back to the university and to students who are also pursuing education as a profession.
John Kirby
It's not just money. Guys leave for more established programs and better conferences. It's part of the profession. I just hope we can hang on to coaches when it comes down to just a financial issue.
Darrell Dickey
In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.
Frank Capra
This really is the highest recognition within the nursing profession. The nurses at El Camino are so proud of having achieved this status.
Diana Russell
She has boundless energy, and is always on the go. She's passionate about what she's doing, and courageous. Our profession needs people with the courage to implement what they believe in.
Mark Peters
The first day I got back in my patrol car, I was scared. It was the same beat. I had to face the demon. I made up my mind I was not going to let anything change the way I felt about my profession.
Erik Eissinger
One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.
Edith Stein
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