Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.

There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.

The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.

It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.

Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

Maybe you are the 'cool' generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

A man must be strong in that profession, he must have vigor of body and mind, yet I am all out of breath if I walk up a hill; I have not the heart to crush even a fly.

The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.

They must have a feeling of do or die. It is such an overcrowded profession.

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession.

I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get.

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.

We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.

Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world.

When I joined the band, being that I was going to take this up as a profession, I realized that there were no two finer guitar players in the world that I'd rather play with.

In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.

One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers.

I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people.

Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing.

The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession.

I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.

This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.

I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.