#professions

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

— Henry Adams

#been #hatreds #organization #politics #practise

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#frustrations #get #hostilities #paid #professions

My concern has always been that people who I portray, or the professions that I portray, are not embarrassed by my portrayal of them. ↗

— George Dzundza

#been #concern #embarrassed #i #people

There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery. ↗

— James Payn

#hand #learned #literature #lottery #many

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#afflicts #ages #classes #immune #people

I would hope we would begin a series of projects that would do more to bring the different parts of the university together in the study of Asia, for example, in the study of the professions in Asia. ↗

— William Kirby

#begin #bring #different #different parts #example

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

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law. ↗

— Evan Davis

#academia #bench #chair #chairs #describe

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits. ↗

— John Locke

#ask #attribute #been #conversing #descriptions