Profession Quotes - Page 5

In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.

Frustrations are going to be there in every profession you're in.

All professions are... filled with demands.

There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.

Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.

Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.

Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?

Im in professional wrestling, which is what I do for a living. I coordinate stunts. I memorize them.

I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.

All the learn'd are cowards by profession.

In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined.

Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.

The so-called scientific basis of the climate problem is within my professional competence as a meteorologist. It is my professional opinion that there is no evidence at all for catastrophic global warming. It is likely that global temperatures will rise a little, much as IPCC predicts, but there is a growing body of evidence that the errant behavior of the Sun may cause some cooling in the foreseeable future.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'

Success is ultimately realized by people who make more good choices and recover quickly from their bad choices. Our personal and professional success depends on repeating good choices, day in and day out, and avoiding repetition of bad choices.

I was in a profession that received a lot of media.

I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.

Her profession's her religion, her sin is lifelessness.

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

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

Warner Bros., where I spent pretty much most of my professional life, they continue to make a lot of movies but so many of the studios are pulling back.