#profession

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#believe #believe in yourself #else #hobby #i

As a private person, professionally I am invisible. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#i #i am #invisible #person #private

I love this profession, but God, it can just destroy people, and I don't want that to happen and become some monster. ↗

— Alyson Hannigan

#destroy #god #happen #i #i love

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

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#indeed #little #made #mess #moment

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#because #excel #genius #people #profession

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#idiot #perfect #profession

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#depends #judge #life #men #our

People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important. ↗

— Chris Hemsworth

#anyone #concern #good #greater #important

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#enjoyment #expected #luxury #necessity #only

I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA. ↗

— Alicia Witt

#competitions #did #i #la #moved