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.

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

Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.

Every profession has its traditions and its traditionalists. But the traditionalists in the pulpit are much more certain than the others that the Lord is on their side.

I fought violently for the autonomy of architecture. It’s a very passive, weak profession where people deliver a service. You want a blue door, you get a blue door. You want it to look neo-Spanish, you get neo-Spanish. Architecture with any authenticity represents resistance. Resistance is a good thing

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.

I try to separate my modelling work from my school life because I don’t want people to think of me differently or that I am a certain way because of it.

Acting is the most insecure profession in the world – you’re insecure if you’re successful, you’re insecure if you’re not. A tightrope walk without a net. It’s a miracle I’m still standing!

all technical professions have an incentive to make themselves look more complicated than they really are so that they can justify the high fees their members charge for their services.

By liberating women from household work and helping to abolish professions such as domestic service, the washing machine and other household goods completely revolutionised the structure of society.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Go on and finish your studies,” Gore said. “You are poor enough, but there are greater evils than poverty. Live on no man’s favor. What bread you do eat, let it be the bread of independence. Pursue your profession. Make yourself useful to your friends and a little formidable to your enemies, and you have nothing to fear.

Allow your passion to become your purpose, and it will one day become your profession.

This is a profession in which how you look dictates whether or not you get work, so a model has to be healthy.

My father is a college professor and that’s about the extent of my college experience. I’m sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

Accept change…I know it is not really comfortable to adopt change but change in life of a human being or life of any profession is really important. But change cannot be forced.

In any profession, you should think positively. That’s the driver of your mind. If your mind is really thinking positive then you are on the right track. ‘Pleasure in what you’re doing puts perfection in your work.

I’m confident to say that if you want to grow in a profession, consistency is the key.

Astronauts are very professional and when they’re preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

Professor Tyndall once said the finest inspiration he ever received was from an old man who could scarcely read. This man acted as his servant. Each morning the old man would knock on the door of the scientist and call, “Arise, Sir: it is near seven o’clock and you have great work to do today

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.

We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: If you’ve got ambition and smarts, you can rise to the top of your chosen profession, regardless of where you started out.

Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.

If we do not like our work and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.

No profession, trade, or calling, is overcrowded in the upper story. Wherever you find the most honest and intelligent merchant or banker, or the best lawyer, the best doctor, the best clergyman, the best shoemaker, carpenter, or anything else, that man is most sought for, and has always enough to do. As a nation, Americans are too superficial they are striving to get rich quickly, and do not generally do their business as substantially and thoroughly as they should, but whoever excels all others in his own line, if his habits are good and his integrity undoubted, cannot fail to secure abundant patronage and the wealth that naturally follows. Let your motto then always be Excelsior, for by living up to it there is no such word as fail.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me, because it’s not their profession to do that.

Painting it’s a blind man profession. Painter is painting not what he sees but what he feels.

My art and profession is to live.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.

Let passion drive your profession.

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

My father used to say to me, “It doesn’t matter what the profession is, but if they’re the best in their field, it will always be fascinating to watch.” And I said, “Really, dad?. Even like someone who makes pencils?”. Even someone who makes pencils, it will be fascinating to watch.

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

Before you can be sure of your ability to transmute desire into it’s monetary equivalent, you will require specialized knowledge of the service, merchandise, or profession you intend to offer in return for fortune.

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.

The trick to any profession is making it look easy.

I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone but on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity.

Poetry isn’t a profession, it’s a way of life. It’s an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

Total commitment is a crucial quality for those who want to reach the very top of their profession

My main objective in the fight is to be a professional but to kill him.

Even before my popularity, I became popular on Facebook.

I gotta turn my contacts into contracts.

It’s about leaving something better for our kids. That’s how we’ve always moved this country forward, by all of us coming together on behalf of our children, folks who volunteer to coach that team, to teach that Sunday school class, because they know it takes a village.

When they go low, we go high.

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.

I go out and do the best I can in each game, and I don’t think about the fouls other players will commit or whether I might be injured. It only harms you to worry about those things.

Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That’s truly about the game, and in some ways that’s about life too.

If I wasn’t paid to be a professional footballer, I would willingly play for nothing.