Profession Quotes

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Fyodor Dostoevsky
“If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment ... all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

John Grisham
“[you’ll acquire] A certain amount of cynicism. This business works on you. When you were in law school you had some noble idea what a lawyer should be. A champion of individual rights; a defender of the Constitution; a guardian of the oppressed; an advocate for your client’s principles. Then after you practice for six months you realize you were nothing but hired guns. Mouthpieces for sale to the highest bidder, available to anybody, any crook, any sleazebag with enough money to pay your outrageous fees. Nothing shocks you. It’s supposed to be an honorable profession, but you’ll meet so many crooked lawyers you’ll want to quit and find an honest job. Yeah Mitch, you’ll get cynical. And it’s sad, really.”
John Grisham, The Firm

Elizabeth Gaskell
“He asks me which of them two I liked best. Perhaps I liked Mr. Harry Carson once--I don't know--I've forgotten; but I loved James Wilson, that's now on trial, above what tongue can tell--above all else on earth put together; and I love him now better than ever, though he has never known a word of it till this minute... I never found out how dearly I loved another till one day, when James Wilson asked me to marry him, and I was very hard and sharp in my answer (for indeed, sir, I'd a deal to bear just then), and he took me at my word and left me; and from that day to this I've never spoken a word to him, or set eyes on him; though I'd fain have done so, to try and show him we had both been too hasty; for he'd not been gone out of my sight above a minute before I knew I loved--far above my life," said she, dropping her voice as she came to this second confession of the strength of her attachment. "But, if the gentleman asks me which I loved the best, I make answer, I was flattered by Mr. Carson, and pleased with his flattery; but James Wilson, I"--
She covered her face with her hands, to hide the burning scarlet blushes, which even dyed her fingers.”
Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton

Ayn Rand
“I love doing it. Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.”
Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

Santiago Ramón y Cajal
“The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life's joys—is abundant compensation for the investigator who endures the painful and persevering analytical work that precedes the appearance of the new truth, like the pain of childbirth. It is true to say that nothing for the scientific scholar is comparable to the things that he has discovered. Indeed, it would be difficult to find an investigator willing to exchange the paternity of a scientific conquest for all the gold on earth. And if there are some who look to science as a way of acquiring gold instead of applause from the learned, and the personal satisfaction associated with the very act of discovery, they have chosen the wrong profession.”
Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Advice for a Young Investigator

François Lelord
“And since he was seeing more and more people who were unhappy for no apparent reason, he was becoming more and more tired, and even a little unhappy himself. He began to wonder if he was in the right profession, whether he was happy with life, whether he wasn't missing out on something. And then he felt very afraid because he wondered whether these unhappy people were contagious.”
François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“The grandeur of a profession is...above all, uniting men: there is only one true luxury, that of human relationships.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Jane Austen
“You are infinitely my superior in merit; all that I know - You have qualities which I had not supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you, beyond what - not merely beyond what one sees, because one never sees any thing like it - but beyond what one fancies might be. But still I am not frightened. It is not by equality of merit that you can be won. That is out of the question. It is he who sees and worships your merit the strongest, who loves you most devotedly, that has the best right to a return.” (326)”
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

Neil Gaiman
“Every profession has its pitfalls. Doctors, for example, are always being asked for free medical advice, lawyers are asked for legal information, morticians are told how interesting a profession that must be and then people change the subject fast.”
Neil Gaiman

Brian Spellman
“I finally decided what I want to be when I grow up - late.”
Brian Spellman, Cartoonist's Book Camp

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

Sara Sheridan
“Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come from another writer one or two rungs on the career ladder ahead of you.”
Sara Sheridan

Harriet Brooks
“I think it is a duty I owe to my profession and to my sex to show that a woman has a right to the practice of her profession and cannot be condemned to abandon it merely because she marries. I cannot conceive how women's colleges, inviting and encouraging women to enter professions can be justly founded or maintained denying such a principle.

[From a letter Brooks wrote to her dean, knowing that she would be told to resign if she married, she asked to keep her job. Nevertheless, she lost her teaching position at Barnard College in 1906. Dean Gill wrote that 'The dignity of women's place in the home demands that your marriage shall be a resignation.']”
Harriet Brooks

Israelmore Ayivor
“We all have our unique careers that differ from one another, but the fact is that we must become "teachers and learners" at the end of it all! By the "learning career", we know what other people know; by the "teaching career", we make other people to know what we know!”
Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Lauren Blakely
“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, 21 Stolen Kisses

Millen Livis
“Our most challenging and painful experiences become our credentials for helping people.”
Millen Livis

Shannon Celebi
“Using one’s beauty was the only way a smart girl could get by, at least that’s how it was back then, though even for a smart girl there were really only three professions. You could be a nurse or a teacher or a wife.”
Shannon Celebi, Small Town Demons

Amit Kalantri
“Let's get one thing clear, there may be few or many successful people in your profession, but there is going to be only one hero in that profession.”
Amit Kalantri

Sara Sheridan
“The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.”
Sara Sheridan

Sara Sheridan
“Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric.”
Sara Sheridan

Sara Sheridan
“Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine.”
Sara Sheridan

Sara Sheridan
“I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living.”
Sara Sheridan

Himmilicious
“Professionalism' is my only Religion and I am 'Workofanatic”
Himmilicious

Ameya Agrawal
“Boss may be on, but leader can be anyone.”
Ameya Agrawal

Yogesh Datta D.
“You don’t want to be a rich businessman, a renowned artist, or whatsoever profession you choose to be into. What you really want is to be happy with what you do and to bring happiness in the lives of the people whom you love and who love you.”
Yogesh Datta D., The Garden of Orchids

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