#profession

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#among #books #comes #drawbacks #exercise

I only took a high school acting class because there was no other class I wanted to take. I loved it, but I was always against acting as a profession. I didn't like the monetary fluctuations I saw. ↗

— Josh Brolin

#acting class #against #always #because #class

We used to be referred to as bakers and then we became known as cake decorators and now we are known as cake designers. I teach at the French Culinary Institute in New York and cake design is a legitimate profession. ↗

— Ron Ben-Israel

#cake #culinary #design #designers #french

I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away. ↗

— George Carlin

#better #building #called #doctor #felt

In the 1920s, Wall Street was a world that was really dominated by professional speculators and stock pools. These people had a monopoly over information. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#had #information #monopoly #over #people

I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better. ↗

— Cy Coleman

#getting #getting better #i #keep #lucky

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#best work #feel #his #like #professional

I think you'll do as well as most professionals. Most professionals don't beat the market. Let's not over-rate my industry. But if you have time, you can be in good mutual funds that have good records. ↗

— Jim Cramer

#funds #good #good records #i #i think

I mean that what makes me a professional, but the market itself has been fabulous during this whole period and I've got to give the market credit before I give myself credit. ↗

— Jim Cramer

#before #credit #during #fabulous #give

There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a therapist in profession. She lets me talk to her like a therapist once in a while, and she does a great thing. Whenever I have a big dilemma, like this is a big problem in my life, she always says, 'Wow, you're going to have to figure that out.' ↗

— Louis C. K.

#big #big problem #dilemma #does #figure