#profession

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession. ↗

— William Standish Knowles

#calling #father #highest #medicine #mother

I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math. ↗

— Phil Foglio

#artist #becoming #else #everything #high

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#average #band #business #could #enrolled

If people take the film and screen it whenever possible for their social and professional networks, we can continue to make a difference. It is one more element we have to use in the ongoing effort to take back our country. ↗

— Robert Greenwald

#continue #country #difference #effort #element

My very, very first professional job was when I was 19 years old - I got a job doing an educational industrial film on Shell Motor Oil's oil products. I really put my heart into it - I wrote a script for it, I did a lot of research. ↗

— Renny Harlin

#doing #educational #film #first #got

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#every #free #free people #fruitful #good

I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#bacon #because #being #best #francis

Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#alien #among #cast #dim #enter

The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#business #cattle #cotton #i #live

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction. ↗

— Donald Kagan

#different #direction #experience #felt #history