#profess

Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#profession #stardom

I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#any #held #i #i think #just

I think if you want to become a great football player, professional, you must give all the time one hundred percent, you must work hard - to be lucky is a good thing - but if you work hard and you give everything you will have great success. ↗

— Greg Akcelrod

#ball player #become #everything #football #football player

Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession. ↗

— Joan Allen

#almost #any #area #aware #cool

I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#along #around #decades #feel #give

Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#assured #columbia #connection #had #me

In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#attraction #cannot #circumstance #coupled #england

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#biggest obstacle #changing #necessity #obstacle #professional

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. ↗

— Henry Adams

#been #hatreds #organization #politics #practice

All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#go #i #i do #prepared #professional