Pastoral Resources

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.

He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.

And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.

A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side.

Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress.

Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.

As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it became a difficult choice for me as to whether to major in music or literature. It wasn't until my 30s that I began a profession in music.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.

One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.