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«A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it»
«An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.»
Author: Ben Shahn
| About:
Painting,
Profession and professionals
| Keywords:
amateur, enable, jobs, professional, supports
«I think he [Archie Bunker] is in every man my age, no matter what he does, whether he's a vice president at Chase or a cab driver.»
Author: Carroll O'Connor
| About:
Age,
Profession and professionals
| Keywords:
archie, Archie Bunker, bunker, cab, cabs, chase, driver, vice president
«Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.»
Author: Donal Henahan
| About:
Autobiography,
Profession and professionals
| Keywords:
advertisements, autobiographer, estate, prose
«No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation»
Author: Horace
(Poet)
| About:
Art,
Excellence,
Profession and professionals
| Keywords:
excellence, painful, passed, preparation, profession, reached, slow, study
«No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics.»
Author: Irving R. Kaufman
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Profession and professionals
| Keywords:
befalling, befalls, befell, derision, dynamics, incomprehension, lawyers, profession, subject to
«It is no surprise that when today's affluent young professionals return to church, they want to do it only on their own terms - what's amazing is how far the churches are going to oblige»
Author: Kathleen Neumeyer
| About:
Profession and professionals
| Keywords:
affluent, amazing, churches, oblige, on their own, professionals, Return to
«Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades: shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers, a monster watch; and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show»
Author: Daniel Webster
(Orator, Senator, Statesman)
| About:
God,
Profession and professionals
| Keywords:
Almighty, gigantic, God Almighty, Hampshire, hangs, hang out, hung, indicative, indicative of, monster, New Hampshire, respective, shoe, shoemaker, shoemakers, tooth, trades
«Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?»
Author: Jef I. Richards
| About:
Advertising,
Profession and professionals
| Keywords:
clutched, new media, planner, planners
«Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to have an early start»
Author: Edgar Watson Howe
(Editor, Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Profession and professionals
| Keywords:
farmer
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