#profession

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#objects #poet #professional #verbal

Professional competitions are overrated. ↗

— Oksana Baiul

#overrated #professional

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot. ↗

— Dave Barry

#idiot #mean #professional #used #user

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#incomprehensible #jargon #profession

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person. ↗

— Candace Bushnell

#important #important thing #kind #life #man

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#course #day #days #easy #even

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#frustrations #get #hostilities #paid #professions

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#band #cannot #christ #dislike #him

Law is a very addictive profession. ↗

— George Carman

#law #profession #very

Watching Jodie on this is incredible; it's the perfect role for her. It's so intense and so emotional. She just jumped right into it and is so professional. ↗

— Erika Christensen

#her #incredible #intense #into #jodie