#profession

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. ↗

— Evan Esar

#america #athlete #average #believes #earns

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#access #actor #actually #another #asking

If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented. ↗

— Stephen King

#money #payment #professional #publishing #talent

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

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

I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#decided #doing #hold #i #just