#profession

Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one. ↗

— Paul Newman

#creative #profession #really

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life. ↗

— Grace Paley

#career #divides #divisive #life #normal

You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#becomes #certainly #chef #choice #cook

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#blind #feels #himself #man #painting

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly. ↗

— Plato

#arts #being #capable #hardly #human

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God's waiting room. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#centuries #die #god #healthier #help

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#frankly #only #our #profession #quite

The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better. ↗

— Marion Ross

#better #classics #get #great #know

I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#better #customers #doctrine #forgetting #got

Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'? ↗

— Jef I. Richards

#baby #child #clutch #declare #grow