#professional

Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment. ↗

— Avery Brundage

#entertainment #must #played #professionally #sports

If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented. ↗

— Stephen King

#money #payment #professional #publishing #talent

To those of you who find fault with complainers, I say to you would you enjoy living in a home that had its one and only bathroom up on its rooftop? In a like token those that are not qualified, as well as are incompetent, should not be designing computer applications that have their bathrooms in the wrong place. ↗

— Leonard Rattini

#design

You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#become #classes #dancers #early #everyday

You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions. ↗

— Martin Bashir

#business #childish #professional #say #transactions

I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#decided #doing #hold #i #just

There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#goes #into #lot #maintenance #professional

I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away. ↗

— George Carlin

#better #building #called #doctor #felt

In the 1920s, Wall Street was a world that was really dominated by professional speculators and stock pools. These people had a monopoly over information. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#had #information #monopoly #over #people

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#best work #feel #his #like #professional