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«If all who are engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can possibly fulfill, they would not be in such bad repute with the lay-public.»
Author: Isocrates
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
engaged, fulfill, profession, promises, public education, repute, reputed
«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.»
Author: Konstantin Stanislavsky
(Actor)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
distinctions, entries, entry, profession, push, ranks, rewards, The Front, utmost
«Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises»
Author: Margaret Sanger
(Founder)
| Keywords:
arises, institutions, machinery, medical, profession, The Silence
«Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.»
Author: Sophia Loren
(Actress)
| About:
Self-confidence,
Talent
| Keywords:
avid, drive, further, mediocre, profession, superior, talent, vastly
«Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself»
Author: Katharine Hepburn
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
acting, at the same time, childish, Nice, pretending, profession, selling
«Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
frugal, General will, industrious, in general, profession, sober, studious, temperate, The Be, virtuous
«HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Hypocrisy
| Keywords:
hypocrite, profession, secures, seeming
«It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction between profession and practice-that is to say with a strong feeling of guilt-are likely to be the most fervent in imposing their faith on others»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
contradiction, fervent, guilt, imposing, Movements, plausible, profession, that is to say
«Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
concerning, mastered, profession, skeptic, skeptics, The Skeptic
«Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.»
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