#profess

You can draw Family Guy when you're 10 years old. You don't have to get any better than that to become a professional cartoonist. The standards are extremely low. ↗

— John Kricfalusi

#become #better #cartoonist #draw #extremely

It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#commitment #dancer #difficult #force #frankly

I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism. ↗

— Henry Thomas

#give #i #illusion #just #now

Programmers are in the enviable position of not only getting to do what they want to, but because the end result is so important they get paid to do it. There are other professions like that, but not that many. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#end #end result #enviable #enviable position #get

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#absolute #absolute truth #cells #commodity #context

No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#aid #allowed #coalition #continuing #global

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors. ↗

— Simone Veil

#culture #instrument #manufacture #professors #their

My earliest professional musical experiences were really as a session player, and every day was an adventure. Three sessions a day, every day, and you never knew who you would be working with until you arrived at the studio. ↗

— Rick Wakeman

#arrived #day #earliest #every #every day

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated. ↗

— Denzel Washington

#before #college #first #got #graduated

We will also have a more rigorous approach to professional development and managing unsatisfactory performance. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#approach #development #managing #more #performance