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Tag Name "Profession" (936)

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I'm an artist because that's what I was best at as a kid. It was fun... I continue to be an artist... for the freedom that an art career can bring. I don't need an alarm clock and I am my own boss.
Mark Kostabi
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It may be true that there is no God here, but there must be one not far off, and at such a moment one feels His presence which comes to the same as saying (and I readily give this sincere profession of faith): I believe in God, and that it is His wi
Vincent Van Gogh
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I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.
Chris Martin
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[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery.
James Payn
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A liberal education is that which aims to develop faculty without ulterior views of profession or other means of gaining a livelihood. It considers man an end in himself and not an instrument whereby something is to be wrought. Its ideal is human perfection.
John Lancaster Spalding
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People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions.
Jack Welch
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Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.
Rem Koolhaas
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If human nature eventually is going to take the place of nature everywhere, those of us who have been naturalists will have to transpose the faith in nature which is inherent in the profession to a faith in man-if necessary, man alone in the world.
Edward Hoagland
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If architecture is going to nudge, cajole, and inspire a community to challenge the status quo into making responsible changes, it will take the subversive leadership of academics and practitioners who keep reminding students of the profession’s responsibilities.
Samuel Mockbee
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The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.
Richard Wagner
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The American people rightly look to their military leaders to be not only skilled in the technical aspects of the profession of arms, but to be men of integrity
J. Lawton Collins
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My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion.
Harry Houdini
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Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.
Robert E. Howard
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Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
Dick Cavett
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It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions.
James Sharp
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A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Making chocolate is a way of life, not a profession.
Jacques Torres
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In every single job, in every single business, in every single profession - in whatever you do - there can be the satisfaction and the happiness that comes from knowing that what you do is important, that what you do makes a difference in the lives of the people you serve.
Wayne D. Dosick
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Umpiring is best described as the profession of standing between two seven-year olds with one ice cream cone.
Ron Luciano
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But in order for anyone to become successful, sometimes you have to be that driven and focused, and maybe there isn't a lot left over for personal relationships - although I certainly have had them. It's not as if I cut myself off, but it makes them very difficult. This profession is very hard on relationships.
Nathan Lane
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I never thought of politics as a profession.
George Papandreou
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Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.
Lord Acton
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I wanted to be a shoe designer, but I never thought it could be a profession. But what was the alternative? Doctor? Too dirty! Air-hostess? Maybe not! Then someone gave me a book on Roger Vivier, and, cheri, instantly I knew that was it!
Christian Louboutin
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