#professional

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

— Avery Brundage

#entertainment #must #played #professionally #sports

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. ↗

— Richard Bach

#professional #professional writer #quit #who #writer

I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#eclectic #far #fun #i #life

I've never really been concerned about being typecast, for me it's just about enjoying my work and being very professional in taking things on. ↗

— David Boreanaz

#been #being #concerned #enjoying #i

Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.' ↗

— Stephen Carter

#always #backgrounds #black #character #even

The professionals are going to be joined by the average Joe. Everybody's a publisher. ↗

— Eric Brown

#everybody #going #joe #joined #professionals

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

— Betty Buckley

#goes #into #lot #maintenance #professional

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down. ↗

— David Byrne

#cars #commodity #down #i #i do

I hit the ground running, without a lot of training, so I had to do whatever I could do to survive as a professional, and if that meant being that character 24/7 and acting out, I was going to do that. I lived those characters, I brought them home with me. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#being #brought #character #characters #could

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