#profession

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal. ↗

#branches #common #education #many #others

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment. ↗

— Toby Young

#become #befall #disaster #exactly #failure

You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult. ↗

— Robin Yount

#difficult #family #know #lifestyle #professional

He was a professional rugby player in the area that I played as a youngster. So a lot of people who I went to school with knew who he was and knew that he was black. So I would get racist taunts in school. ↗

— Ryan Giggs

#black #get #i #knew #lot

I think that anybody who says 'This is the one way to go about being an actor' has probably not done a lot of professional work before. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#actor #anybody #before #being #done

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#before #ever #growing #jargon #most

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#although #any #except #felt #fondness

I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all. ↗

— Norman Granz

#i #impresario #judging #professional #talking

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession. ↗

— Robert Graves

#poet #profession #rather #than

We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things. ↗