#profess

There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#basically #businessmen #get #got #negotiating

A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. ↗

— Frederick W. Smith

#concept #delivery #earn #feasible #fred

Compared to art, all other professions are but chores. ↗

— T.L. Rese

#profession #work #art

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

— Clay Shirky

#internet #media #organization #profession #communication

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. ↗

— Barack Obama

#active #avoid #being #black #carefully

No one is pro-abortion. ↗

— Barack Obama

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. ↗

— Albert Pike

#almost #artisans #artists #been #genius

IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

#applications #device #importance #kind #making

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. ↗

— Jules Renard

#earn #money #only #profession #ridiculous

I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#had #hopes #i #intended #masses