Profession Quotes

“Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it."

[Thoughts from Places: The Tour, Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]”
― John Green

“Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.”
― Vincent van Gogh

“You should not confuse your career with your life.”
― Dave Barry

“The life so short, the craft so long to learn.”
― Hippocrates

“Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't.”
― Dick Francis, Reflex

“I wasn't pretty, but as my mother once said, prettiness wasn't my profession.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase

“...My dad, may he rest in
peace, taught me many wonderful things. And one of the things he taught me was never ask a guy what you do for a living.

He said "If you think about it, when you ask a guy, what do you do you do for a living," you’re saying "how may I gauge the rest of your utterances." are you smarter than I am? Are you richer than I am, poorer than I am?"

So you ask a guy what do you do for a living, it’s the same thing as
asking a guy, let me know what your politics are before I listen to you so
I know whether or not you’re part of my herd, in which case I can nod
knowingly, or part of the other herd, in which case I can wish you dead.”
― David Mamet

“Growing up, I always had a soldier mentality. As a kid I wanted to be a soldier, a fighter pilot, a covert agent, professions that require a great deal of bravery and risk and putting oneself in grave danger in order to complete the mission. Even though I did not become all those things, and unless my predisposition, in its youngest years, already had me leaning towards them, the interest that was there still shaped my philosophies. To this day I honor risk and sacrifice for the good of others - my views on life and love are heavily influenced by this.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession.”
― Richard Diaz

“Whatever one does for a living, three questions need to be confronted before it is too late: What really matters to me? What price do my spouse and kids pay for my career success? What price does my soul pay?”
― Dennis Prager, Think a Second Time

“A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way.”
― Julia Cameron, Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance

“No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a mistake in the choice of his profession, and every man, worthy of the name, will row long against wind and tide before he allows himself to cry out, 'I am baffled!' and submits to be floated passively back to land.”
― Charlotte Brontë, The Professor

“There has always been a 'and this is where I come in' feeling about a night call. And as my lights swept the cobbles of the deserted market place it was there again, a sense of returning to fundamentals, of really being me.”
― James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small

“El estudio de la economía no parece exigir ningún don especializado de un orden excepcionalmente superior. ¿No es una disciplina muy fácil comparada con las ramas superiores de la filosofía o la ciencia pura?. Una disciplina fácil de la que muy pocos sobresalen. La paradoja tal vez tenga su explicación en que el economista experto debe poseer una rara combinación de dones. Debe ser en cierta medida matemático, historiador, estadista, filosofo. Debe comprender los símbolos y hablar en palabras. Debe contemplar lo particular desde la óptica de lo general y considerar en un mismo razonamiento lo abstracto y lo concreto.
Debe estudiar el presente pensando en el futuro. Ningún aspecto de la naturaleza del hombre o de sus instituciones debe quedarse al margen de su consideración. Debe ser simultáneamente decidido y desinteresado; tan distante e incorruptible como un artista y, sin embargo a veces tan cerca del suelo como un político”
― John Maynard Keynes

“We may indeed be justly proud of our apostolic succesion. THESE ARE OUR METHODS - to carefully observe the phenomena of life in all its stages , to cultivate reasoning faculty so as to be able to know the true from the false. THIS IS OUR WORK - to prevent disease, to relieve suffering and to heal the sick.”
― William Osler

“- Во время крупных переворотов в технике те дисциплины, которые стоят в стороне, должны казаться неважными. И вы, молодёжь, естественно, колеблетесь, несмотря на уже приобретенную специальность. Я бы тоже колебался... Но вот что я вам скажу...
Давыдов зажег папиросу, задумчиво посмотрел на поднимавшийся вверх дым.
– Есть люди, – медленно начал профессор, – безразличные в выборе научного пути. Случай, выгода – и они будут заниматься чем угодно. И даже с большим успехом, с хорошими результатами. Но я не считаю их настоящими учеными. Выбор науки, что там ни говори, определяется личными склонностями, способностями и вкусами. Только тогда, когда ваш ум будет требовать знания, ловить его, как задыхающийся ловит воздух, тогда вы будете подлинными творцами науки, не щадящими сил в своем движении вперед, сливающими свою личность с наукой. Я сам вначале колебался... Конечно, может быть, жаль, что я не физик, не творю важнейшее для настоящего момента, но тут дело в комбинации моих способностей и интересов, которые принесут наибольший эффект, если будут гармонировать с избранным путем... Бросить наше дело нельзя еще и потому, что человеку, строящему будущее, необходим общий подъем культуры, знания и широкий кругозор. Наука имеет свои законы развития, не всегда совпадающие с практическими требованиями сегодняшнего дня. И ученый не может быть врагом современности. Он должен быть впереди, иначе он будет лишь чиновником. Без современности – фантазер, без будущего – тупица. А ведь еще Петр Великий это хорошо понимал. Вспомните его указ о непременном сборе ископаемых костей – это в те-то тяжелые времена, в бедной и бескультурной стране!
(Илья Андреевич Давыдов - аспирантам)”
― Иван Ефремов, На краю Ойкумены. Звёздные корабли

“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

“What job do you want to do?
And I see them all hanging up before me, like clothes on a rack, all the jobs, tinker, tailor, soldier, and you have to pick one and then you have to pretend for the rest of your life that that's what you are. So they aint no different really from accidents of birth. I didn't know that phrase then but I learnt it later. It's a good phrase...”
― Graham Swift, Last Orders

“Faerie stones can be found in a variety of regions, being particularly common in Cornwall and the Isle of Man. They are unimpressive in appearance and hard to recognize with the untrained eye; their most distinguishing feature is their perfect roundness. They seem primarily to be used to store enchantments for later use or perhaps for the purposes of gift-giving. Danielle de Grey's 1850 Guide to Elfstones of Western Europe is the definitive resource on the subject. (I am aware that many dryadologists today ignore de Grey's research on account of her many scandals, but whatever else she was, I find her a meticulous scholar.) A faerie stone with a crack down it has been spent and is thus harmless. An intact stone should be left untouched and reported to ICAD, the International Council of Arcanologists and Dryadologists.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

“The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal.”
― Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

“In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.”
― Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

“Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.”
― Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

“Ally turned
her attention back to Brian Byrne. "So what do you do for a living when you're not searching out
your roots?"
"Have sex with thousands of women." He slanted her a grin that would've knocked her off
her feet if she wasn't already laid out flat by his comment. "Professionally, of course."
"Well, that makes it okay then." A porn star? Her instinct said no. But her instinct had also
thought Dave was a great guy when she first met him. How wrong was that? Hmm. What else
could Brian be? How about crazy? Sounded logical to her. She was alone with a crazy man. A
sexy crazy man, but crazy was still crazy.”
― Nina Bangs, Night Games

“I never really wanted to be a professional; all I knew was that I wanted whatever I did to matter. I believe writing matters, of course, but nothing has ever felt more real to me than the work of caring. That energy and effort to maintain—ourselves, our loved ones, our community—has always felt substantial, true, visceral, and, yes, real to me. I don’t believe care work has to wreck us. This labor can be shared, social, collective—and transformative.”
― Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

“So many people get sucked into the medical profession and end up on thousands of dollars of prescription medications every month that keeps them sickly!”
― Steven Magee

“If you are looking for a profession that is filled with morons, look no further than the police.”
― Steven Magee

“Future society thrives on compassionate AI, which shapes a legal system free of corruption and inequality, delivering justice without fear, bias, or delay but with the utmost care and respect for humanity.”
― Amit Ray, Compassionate Artificial Superintelligence AI 5.0

“Becoming a shepherd is prestigious if your herd is the human race.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“便利商店賣咖啡，「整個城市都是我的咖啡館」，多好的廣告。美式咖啡一杯二十五元，小杯拿鐵三十元，有時還買一送一，買大送小，不用本錢似的。可是還是有人偏偏要去店裡喝一杯九十元、一百一的拿鐵、卡布其諾，尤其是焦糖拿鐵，據說是招牌，我知道為什麼，不是因為店長漂亮啦，又不是每個人都是豬哥。我們有個店員也很漂亮啊，上班不到三個月就被把走了。我覺得阿布咖啡這種店賣的是氣氛，你看我們就這麼緊鄰著，我有時也會聞到咖啡香，烘焙蛋糕的氣味會從後面防火巷傳過來，我去後頭倉庫整理貨的時候，會流口水，真的止都止不住，交換班的時候，我也會晃過去往裡頭瞧，隔著一層玻璃，像隔開一個世界，我們在這裡叮咚，歡迎光臨，跑斷腿在那裡結帳、收銀、煮咖啡、賣霜淇淋、影印、傳真、收包裹、發傳真、收水電費、拿演唱會的票、收宅配，簡直像是萬事通，我媽都笑我說以前啥都不會，現在什麼都會，如果店裡開始賣牛肉麵，我一點也不會覺得奇怪，真的，便利商店，早晚會把雜貨店、超市、郵局、洗衣店、快餐店、咖啡店，這個那個所有的店都取代了，那時我們的生活就完了，微波、速食、廉價，什麼都變得廉價淺薄了，就像我們這種員工一樣，我啥都會，可是出去其他地方，也等於什麼都不會，我們學的這些，真的到專業的店裡，也用不上。”
― 陳雪, 摩天大樓

“Behind every challenge of being a non specialist, there's a beauty of being a multifaceted person.”
― Iva Škorić