#profess

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#developer #leaving #long #people #professional

Because I have sixty years of being a professional composer, conductor, musician, whatever, and you develop a lot of friendships and you get involved with a lot of sort of long-term commitments and obligations. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#being #commitments #composer #conductor #develop

But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#amateur #any #became #compose #did

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast. ↗

— Junior Seau

#beast #becomes #him #hockey #hockey player

Being professional is just really clearly the way to go and helps you on the road to longevity. ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

#clearly #go #helps #just #longevity

I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he's also an 'amateur' in the pure sense of the word. ↗

— John Sexton

#amateur #arnold #because #consummate #example

I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford. ↗

— Godfrey Harold Hardy

#forty #i #little #oxford #past

You never really forget who you are. If you did, you'd need to seek some professional help. ↗

— John Hawkes

#forget #help #need #never #professional

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#childish #else #nice #pretending #profession

This is the profession I chose, and you really learn to save your money because you never know how it's going to go, but you still want to get out there and work. ↗

— Ray Liotta

#chose #get #go #going #how