#pro

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003. ↗

— David Cone

#baseball #baseball player #drafted #high #high school

Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win. ↗

— Roscoe Conkling

#behalf #conviction #country #dare #disregard

My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company's Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years. ↗

— Didi Conn

#company #during #encouraged #ended #first

I felt for a long time that this is what I want to do so I'm happy at this point to just take my time and work on projects that I feel strongly about, and the rest of the time just live my life. ↗

— Jennifer Connelly

#feel #felt #happy #i #i feel

Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better. ↗

— Catie Curtis

#better #creative #creative process #dance #get

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault. ↗

— Robert Conquest

#congratulate #environment #fault #moral #more

Roger. Clear the tower. I got a pitch and a roll program, and this baby's really going. ↗

— Pete Conrad

#clear #going #got #i #pitch

The message here was not about indeterminacy, nor about immediacy, but about the control of sounds right there in your environment, and the process of composition as long-term growth of interests within that sound complex. ↗

— Tony Conrad

#complex #composition #control #environment #growth

A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now. ↗

— Scott Cook

#generation #instead #now #poverty #preparing

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#considered #difficult #i #i love #know