#profess

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person. ↗

— Candace Bushnell

#important #important thing #kind #life #man

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

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

Watching Jodie on this is incredible; it's the perfect role for her. It's so intense and so emotional. She just jumped right into it and is so professional. ↗

— Erika Christensen

#her #incredible #intense #into #jodie

Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient. ↗

— David Coverdale

#make #me #professional #situations #very

Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#another #entertainer #i #know #profession