#profess

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#faculties #just #lose #never #old

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

#distinction #distinctions #i #make #much

If I would take a job with a professional league, I need to be ready. ↗

— Thomas Dooley

#job #league #need #professional #ready

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#course #day #days #easy #even

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#frustrations #get #hostilities #paid #professions

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#band #cannot #christ #dislike #him

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#forget #lincoln #most #politician #professional

I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#being #i #minister #professor #serve

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books. ↗

— Albert Camus

#after #best #books #collection #days

I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional. ↗

— Katarina Witt

#athlete #east #first #germany #go