Profession Quotes (450 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Ayelet Zurer
„I'm an actress. In this sense, my profession is less complex than that of a model. True, they're into beauty in Hollywood, and it is age-related, but you can't put a girl with hot lips and no wrinkles and say: 'That's the mother of a 14-year-old.'“
― Ayelet Zurer ―
Picture of quotation author Peter Zumthor
„The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.“
― Peter Zumthor ―
Picture of quotation author Florenz Ziegfeld
„And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.“
Picture of quotation author Ziyi Zhang
„My profession has helped me to grow up.“
― Ziyi Zhang ―
Picture of quotation author Loretta Young
„In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.“
― Loretta Young ―
Picture of quotation author Boris Yeltsin
„There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.“
― Boris Yeltsin ―
Picture of quotation author Philip Yancey
„One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years and are just as powerful today. Their words have changed me just as much as the people I actually met.“
― Philip Yancey ―
Picture of quotation author Mo Yan
„When literature exists, perhaps we do not notice how important it is, but when it does not exist, our lives become coarsened and brutal. For this reason, I am proud of my profession, but also aware of its importance.“
― Mo Yan ―
Picture of quotation author Martin Yan
„Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful.“
― Martin Yan ―
Picture of quotation author Zhou Xun
„I think it's the same to be an actress anywhere because the profession is about attitudes towards events - it is a process to try to understand life. I think this is the case for actors across the world.“
― Zhou Xun ―
Picture of quotation author Lawrence Wright
„Journalism is a flawed profession, but it has a self-correcting mechanism. The rule of journalism is: talk to everybody.“
― Lawrence Wright ―
Picture of quotation author Virginia Woolf
„To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.“
― Virginia Woolf ―
Picture of quotation author John Wooden
„I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.“
― John Wooden ―
Picture of quotation author Katarina Witt
„It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.“
― Katarina Witt ―
Picture of quotation author Niklaus Wirth
„But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity.“
― Niklaus Wirth ―
Picture of quotation author Beau Willimon
„I was always a writer - working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV - that was always my goal.“
― Beau Willimon ―
Picture of quotation author Edmund White
„I think I could be a cook. Everybody always says I'm good, though I think it's quite gruelling as a profession.“
― Edmund White ―
Picture of quotation author Les Wexner
„Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.“
― Les Wexner ―
Picture of quotation author Paul Weller
„Being a musician is a noble profession.“
― Paul Weller ―
Picture of quotation author D. B. Weiss
„Writing can be a very isolating profession. By its very nature, you spend a lot of your time barricaded in your house or office, typing on your own.“
― D. B. Weiss ―

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