#profession

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer. ↗

— David Antin

#engineer #farmer #i #into #mother

I had a lot of coaching for the movie and no, I have never sung professionally before. ↗

— Christopher Atkins

#coaching #had #i #lot #movie

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#calling #intimate #intimate knowledge #knowledge #pays

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

In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#american #american policy #come #deal #doing

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#any #commoner #cooks #members #murder

I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future. ↗

— Maurice Ashley

#ambassador #bigger #bring #chess #events

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law. ↗

— Evan Davis

#academia #bench #chair #chairs #describe

Our all-volunteer force continues to prove itself with a great level of professionalism, personal commitment and a technical competence that is quite remarkable. ↗

— Geoff Davis

#competence #continues #force #great #itself