#profess

Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move. ↗

— Clay Shirky

#internet #media #organization #profession #communication

By the time she had interpreted Harry's dreams at the top of her voice (all of which, even the ones that involved eating porridge, apparently foretold a gruesome and early death), he was feeling much less sympathetic toward her. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry #harry-potter #humor #j-k-rowling #order-of-the-phoenix

Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#confidence #marketing #professionalism #education

The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity. ↗

— Douglas B. Reeves

#effective #popular #professional-development #school #change

People wonder why I always dress professionally. I want to be admired for my intelligence, instead of my body. ↗

— Bianca Frazier

#professional-dress #intelligence

You should not confuse your career with your life. ↗

— Dave Barry

#work #life

But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#professor-phelps #william-lyon-phelps #wisdom #life

I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it. ↗

— Asa Gray

#am #anyone #better #calling #convinced

The mind becomes like that on which it feeds. ↗

— Elton Trueblood

#professor-emeritus #theologian #religion

To those of you who find fault with complainers, I say to you would you enjoy living in a home that had its one and only bathroom up on its rooftop? In a like token those that are not qualified, as well as are incompetent, should not be designing computer applications that have their bathrooms in the wrong place. ↗

— Leonard Rattini

#design