Pastoral Resources

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

Well, in our business, it's a very tough profession.

The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows.

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that.

Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe.

But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.

Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.

My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?

My name is E. Howard Hunt. I'm currently retired from more than 22 years in the profession of espionage.

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.

I had turned my anxiety into my profession.

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.