#profession

[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'" (One On 1, interview with Budd Mishkin; NY1, March 25, 2007.) ↗

— David Halberstam

#basketball #david-halberstam #julius-erving #professionalism #sports

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. ↗

— Richard Bach

#professional #professional writer #quit #who #writer

All for one and one for all. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living. ↗

— Harold Budd

#america #could #get #going #had

You thought you knew what food was, you thought it was elemental. You forgot how much restaurant there was in restaurant food and how much home was in homemade. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#home #professionalism #food

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#any #become #man #nature #necessary

You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#become #classes #dancers #early #everyday

You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions. ↗

— Martin Bashir

#business #childish #professional #say #transactions

No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years. ↗

— Shirley Bassey

#anymore #been #bells #happily #i

We have witnessed the most educated, successful, and monied professionals in the country put their companies - not to mention their own liberty - at risk by engaging in flagrant and foolhardy illegal conduct. ↗

— Preet Bharara

#conduct #country #educated #engaging #flagrant