#profess

Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't. ↗

— Dick Francis

#job #life #profession #faith

And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession. ↗

— Florenz Ziegfeld

#add #beginning #chorus #come #comparatively

Hogwarts is threatened!” shouted Professor McGonagall. “Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#professor-mcgonagall #death

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies. ↗

— Ted Turner

#fortune #good #good fortune #had #i

And then to end up with a total of 347 wins, averaging 10 regular season wins for 33 years and the best winning percentage, and I'm very proud of this, of any professional team from 1970 to 1996. ↗

— Don Shula

#averaging #best #end #i #percentage

By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#by the time #flawed #i #professional #time

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #being #does

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#only #perhaps #politics #preparation #profession

It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins. ↗

— Jackie Stewart

#i #improve #leadership #led #more

Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day. ↗

— Ryan Sypek

#because #close #college #conservatory #day