#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

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions. ↗

— Derek Bok

#oldest #professions #youngest

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#age #children #compensated #confirms #control

We don't have enough people going into those fields and there is a high burnout rate in some health care professions, so it is very important that we get more people into the pipeline right now. ↗

— David Obey

#care #enough #enough people #fields #get

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

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. ↗

— Henry Adams

#been #hatreds #organization #politics #practise

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#frustrations #get #hostilities #paid #professions

My concern has always been that people who I portray, or the professions that I portray, are not embarrassed by my portrayal of them. ↗

— George Dzundza

#been #concern #embarrassed #i #people