#profess

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously. ↗

— Dirk Bogarde

#obviously #profession #quite #wrong

So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad. ↗

— Brett Favre

#athlete #bad #deal #deals #depends

I mean, I've acted professionally since I was 16. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#i #mean #professionally #since

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense. ↗

— Herman Cain

#believe #budget #call #common #common sense

Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap. ↗

— Morton Feldman

#any #arrive #boring #call #combination

Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself. ↗

— Jane Campion

#acting #between #bit #england #i

I was a professional athlete, the best baseball player in the world at one point. ↗

— Jose Canseco

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #best #i

I'd like to own my own garage and my own fishery. I'd also like to be a professional fisherman. But I'll take whatever happens. ↗

— Tom Felton

#fisherman #garage #happens #i #like

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely. ↗

— John le Carre

#away #both #community #his #i

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#his #more #nothing #professional #remedies