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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
- Bacon, Francis
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one,
I spend the night with the other.
- Chekhov, Anton
The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the fi
nest in the world.
- Eliot, George
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln wa
s a professional politician.
- Frankfurter, Felix
Through all the employments of life each neighbor abuses his brother; whore and
rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another.
- Gay, John
In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes
the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up
of appearances.
- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to h
is country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is unders
tood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of on
e's country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession.
- Levi, Primo
The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technici
an knows everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and his place in t
he scheme of things.
- Livingston, Richard W.
The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.
- Morgan, Elaine
Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
- Nash, Ogden
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater e
ase, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural
gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
- Plato
All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
- Shaw, George Bernard
Professionalism is knowing how to do it, when to do it, and doing it.
- Tyger, Frank
Professionalism: It's NOT the job you DO, It's HOW you DO the job.
- Unknown, Source
Pros are people who do jobs well even when they don't feel like it.
- Unknown, Source

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a
hero.
- Whitman, Walt
There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in En
gland at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by ado
pting some useful profession.
- Wilde, Oscar
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon
a father.
- Woolf, Virginia