#profess

I'm glad Reagan is president. Of course, I'm a professional comedian. ↗

— Will Durst

#course #glad #i #president #professional

I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did. ↗

— Peter Shilton

#about #always #did #i #i always

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#beauty #distinctions #entry #find #front

The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#bit #classics #consequences #five #him

Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture. ↗

— Hal Boyle

#deliver #discuss #habit #lecture #professors

I'm not that professional. ↗

— Andy Richter

#professional

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

The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#professionalism #work #art

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

— Clay Shirky

#internet #media #organization #profession #communication

Don't forget to give Neville our love!' Ginny told James as she hugged him. 'Mum! I can't give a professor love!' 'But you know Neville-' James rolled his eyes. 'Outside, yeah, but at school he's Professor Longbottom, isn't he? I can't walk into Herbology and give him love.... ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#deathly-hallows #epilogue #harry-potter #hogwarts #humor