a trade QUOTES

1 " There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inkling of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living...In the complications of modern life and with our increased accumulation of knowledge, it doubtless helps greatly to compress some years of experience into far fewer years by studying for a particular trade or profession in an institution; but that fact should not blind us to another—namely, that in so doing we are learning a trade or a profession, but are not getting a liberal education as human beings. "

― James Truslow Adams

2 " Again, a Prince should show himself a patron of merit, and should honour those who excel in every art. He ought accordingly to encourage his subjects by enabling them to pursue their callings, whether mercantile, agricultural, or any other, in security, so that this man shall not be deterred from beautifying his possessions from the apprehension that they may be taken from him, or that other refrain from opening a trade through fear of taxes; and he should provide rewards for those who desire so to employ themselves, and for all who are disposed in any way to add to the greatness of his City or State. "

― Niccolò Machiavelli , The Prince

3 " Family drama is a trade off for having family. "

― C.C. Hunter , Chosen at Nightfall (Shadow Falls, #5)

4 " Of course I want the moon. And were you to offer it, I'd propose as a trade the stars in my eyes. "

― Richelle E. Goodrich , Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

5 " Apprenticeship assumes that knowing a trade not only comes by numbers and outlines but also by watching and inhabiting. Knowing is found in these forms, because teaching is. We teach not only by our words and assignments but also by the manner of our words and the ways we ourselves already embody the assignments we give. "

― Zack Eswine , Sensing Jesus: Life and Ministry as a Human Being

6 " He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits. "

― Isabel Allende , The House of the Spirits

7 " No man undertakes a trade he has not learned even the meanest yet every one thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades - that of government. "

8 " Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care much thought practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this as well as in all other trades makes perfect. "

9 " It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself. "

10 " There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity. "