Professions Quotes

It's amazing how important your job is when you want the day off - and how unimportant it is when you want a raise.

Don't be too enthusiastic when choosing a profession – think of earningfor life too.

I left journalism because I met too many interesting people at an uninteresting salary.

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there I go to work.

If law school is so hard to get through how come there are so many lawyers?

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid stable business.

Vice president: That's the title given to a corporate manager instead of a raise.

I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.

Each and every one of us was created to carry out justice, judgment, truth and equity on the earth. It could be in different spheres of life, in various professions or in diverse gifting

Downsizing means you're about to become the guest of honor at a going-away party.

Once more September marveled that even the Dodo knew what she wanted to be when she was grown. She simply could not think what she herself might do. September expected that destinies, which is how she thought of professions, simply landed upon one like a crown, and ever after no one questioned or fretted over it, being sure of one’s own use in the world. It was only that somehow her crown had not yet appeared. She did hope it would hurry up.

America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.

My brother-in-law had to give up his last job because of illness. His boss became sick of him.

She used to be a schoolteacher but she has no class now.

Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.

I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.

I never liked being a salesman. . . . Ever since I got my first two orders: Get out! and Stay out!

A specialist is a person who knows very much about very little and continues to learn more and more about less and less until eventually he knows practically everything about almost nothing at all.

A secretary must think like a man act like a lady look like a girl - and work like a dog.

Most of the men sitting in first class on an airplane have really boring jobs.

Expert: An ordinary man away from home giving advice.

I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late.

And I envied her that she had chosen her work herself and was doing what she wanted to do. I don't suppose I had any idea what I 'wanted' and so I was chosen, not choosing. There's glory and honor in being chosen. But not much room for free will.

I don't like the fact that doctors are referred to as practicing.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is very important.

I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead Spenser is dead so is Milton so is Shakespeare and I'm not feeling so well myself.

Professional life is like a fire hydrant. You spend all of your time putting out fires and standing your ground against the big dogs.

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

Experience is the one thing you have plenty of when you're too old to get the job.

When asked to contribute ten dollars to a lawyer's funeral I said: "Here's fifty. Bury five of them."

After all, choosing a profession is extremely challenging – it is likely thehardest thing one has to do in the period of reaching maturity.

I'm a concert pianist. That's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Each and every one of us was created to carry out justice, judgment, truth and equity on the earth. It could be in different spheres of life, in various professions or in diverse gifting. But the mandate is clear, his nature must be reflected on the earth. If he is a God of justice, people must see his justice on earth. If he is a God of sound judgment, that sound mind must be revealed in people who identify themselves with him on daily basis. If God is truth, that truth must reign supreme on the earth even as he reigns over the universe. If fairness, impartiality, equity, are his essence, that should become dominant in any society

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

An actor's a guy who if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.

My agent gets 10 percent of everything I get except the blinding headaches.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.