#profess

I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#back #because #become #could #degree

It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports. ↗

— Roger Goodell

#draft #every #fundamental #just #league

Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics. ↗

— Cuba Gooding, Jr.

#back #back up #before #break #ceremony

I think it's important to have professional lessons or advice. ↗

— Delta Goodrem

#i #i think #important #lessons #professional

I think that anybody who says 'This is the one way to go about being an actor' has probably not done a lot of professional work before. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#actor #anybody #before #being #done

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#before #ever #growing #jargon #most

As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with clarity, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#became #began #clarity #companions #discover

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#although #any #except #felt #fondness

I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all. ↗

— Norman Granz

#i #impresario #judging #professional #talking

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession. ↗

— Robert Graves

#poet #profession #rather #than