#profession

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it. ↗

— Rose Kennedy

#best #bring #challenging #child #could

Nicol has great potential and there is a huge gap between her and the rest of the juniors. She needs to concentrate full time on the professional circuit from now on and it is the only way for her to realize her potential. ↗

— Jahangir Khan

#circuit #concentrate #full #gap #great

Well, I don't know about objectivity, but I know for certain that it's always possible for a professional journalist who understands what he or she's up to to be fair, and that's the key word. Fairness to individuals, fairness to ideas, and to issues and whatever - that is critical, and that is also part and parcel of what the job. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#also #always #certain #critical #fair

Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted. ↗

— Mario Lemieux

#beginning #day #game #grow #grow up

Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father's business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money. ↗

— Cesar Romero

#became #big #business #bust #career

I know I'm a good professional, I know that no one's harder on me than myself and that's never going to change, under any circumstances. ↗

— Cristiano Ronaldo

#change #circumstances #going #good #harder

You can look at everything from pre-Heisman to post-Heisman, and I think that's why it ranks up at the top, because before then, I didn't even think I was good enough to be a professional ballplayer. ↗

— Barry Sanders

#because #before #enough #even #everything

But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#failure #first #grandfathers #his #i

Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#began #chosen #editor #fifteen #had

American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity. ↗

— Gordie Howe

#athletes #bilingual #english #profanity #professional