#professions

What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#american writers #been #breakthroughs #continuity #did

Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#died #forward #god #leaders #only

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing. ↗

— Peter Singer

#business #dentistry #distinct #engineering #ethics

Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#building #deeply #into #north #north america

In Wales, singing and storytelling are party skills, not professions. ↗

— Rhys Ifans

#professions #singing #skills #storytelling #wales

She was intensely sympathetic. She was immensely charming. She was utterly unselfish. She excelled in the difficult arts if family life. She sacrificed herself daily. If there was chicken, she took the led; if there was a draft she sat in it-- in short she was so constituted that she never had a mind or wish of her own, but preferred to sympathize always with the minds and wishes of others... I did my best to kill her. My excuse, if I were to be had up in a court of law, would be that I acted in self defense. Had I not killed her, she would have killed me. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#art

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. ↗

— Henry Adams

#been #hatreds #organization #politics #practice

Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#end #end result #enviable #enviable position #get

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#eventually #get #journalists #kill #middle-class

We don't have enough people going into those fields and there is a high burnout rate in some health care professions, so it is very important that we get more people into the pipeline right now. ↗

— David Obey

#care #enough #enough people #fields #get