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So being able to do complex thinking and reasoning in our profession is one way to continually flex our cognitive horsepower or brain power. – Sian Beilock	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I'm very concerned that the profession is poised to lose public trust, i don't think we can gain public trust if the perception exists of a conflict of interest. – Michael Blackwell	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We all looked up to Dr Willoughby and would consult him on many issues relating to our medical profession. – Brima Kargbo	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The medical profession is not uniformly walking the walk when supporting women coming back to work after childbirth. – Galen Sherwin	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty. – Constantin Stanislavski	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes. – Desiderius Erasmus	added by anonymous 10 years ago
All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession. – William Hogarth	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence. – Henri-Frédéric Amiel	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one's country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession. – Primo Levi	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Acting is the perfect idiot's profession. – Katharine Hepburn	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. – William Osler	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. – Jules Renard	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. – John Steinbeck	added by anonymous 10 years ago
We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 13 years ago
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies. – Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession. – Isaac Watts	added by anonymous 13 years ago
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. – Niccolo Machiavelli	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it – Jean-Jacques Rousseau	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it. – Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession a good accountant is a debit to his profession. – Charles J. C. Lyall	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. – Robert Louis Stephenson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. – Henry Ward Beecher	added by anonymous 14 years ago

So being able to do complex thinking and reasoning in our profession is one way to continually flex our cognitive horsepower or brain power.

– Sian Beilock

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I'm very concerned that the profession is poised to lose public trust, i don't think we can gain public trust if the perception exists of a conflict of interest.

– Michael Blackwell

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We all looked up to Dr Willoughby and would consult him on many issues relating to our medical profession.

– Brima Kargbo

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The medical profession is not uniformly walking the walk when supporting women coming back to work after childbirth.

– Galen Sherwin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.

– Constantin Stanislavski

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

– Desiderius Erasmus