• I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training.

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  Joseph Pulitzer

  PublisherAmerican1847 · 19th century

  3.1 · 37 votes · 19 reads

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• I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  5.0 · 53 votes · 33 reads

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• I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  4.2 · 34 votes · 164 reads

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• I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.6 · 14 votes · 98 reads

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• I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading. So I made an economic decision, and it turned out the best judgment I ever made in my life.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.3 · 61 votes · 146 reads

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• 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.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.6 · 61 votes · 126 reads

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• Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

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  Anton Chekhov

  AuthorRussian1860 · 19th century

  3.3 · 55 votes · 176 reads

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• Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.

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  Joseph Pulitzer

  PublisherAmerican1847 · 19th century

  3.1 · 14 votes · 169 reads

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• People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  3.4 · 11 votes · 152 reads

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• Professionalism: It's NOT the job you DO, It's HOW you DO the job.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 47 votes · 76 reads

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• Pros are people who do jobs well even when they don't feel like it.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 26 votes · 59 reads

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

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.3 · 13 votes · 198 reads

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• The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

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  Joseph Pulitzer

  PublisherAmerican1847 · 19th century

  4.9 · 40 votes · 110 reads

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• There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.1 · 63 votes · 8 reads

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• Through all the employments of life each neighbour abuses his brother; whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another.

  

  John Gay

  PoetEnglish1685 · 17th century

  4.0 · 49 votes · 188 reads

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• To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  3.3 · 50 votes · 125 reads

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• What a beautiful art, but what a wretched profession.

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  Georges Bizet

  MusicianFrench1838 · 19th century

  4.2 · 56 votes · 13 reads

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• Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  5.0 · 43 votes · 103 reads

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