#professions

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law. ↗

— Evan Davis

#academia #bench #chair #chairs #describe

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#eventually #get #journalists #kill #middle-class

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions. ↗

— Junius

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When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#disinclined #eliminate #feel #financial #i

While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#certainly #earnings #equivalent #gap #great

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#activity #another #bearing #burdens #condition

There are, it is true, at present no great prizes in literature such as are offered by the learned professions, but there are quite as many small ones - competences; while, on the other hand, it is not so much of a lottery. ↗

— James Payn

#hand #learned #literature #lottery #many

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly. ↗

— Plato

#arts #being #capable #hardly #human

I would hope we would begin a series of projects that would do more to bring the different parts of the university together in the study of Asia, for example, in the study of the professions in Asia. ↗

— William Kirby

#begin #bring #different #different parts #example

One should stay away from the demeaning professions: medicine, architecture, and teaching. Hospitals will make you feel sick, grandiose buildings small, schools stupid. White-collar condescension keeps the honest orders from staying true to the old ways of dirt and drink. ↗

— Bauvard

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