A Quotes
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“A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his job when he does feel like it.”
Source: A Shorter Ego: The Autobiography of James Agate
“A professional is an amateur who has been working for a long time.”
“A professional is, for sure, one who scores more and more with a decorum like he's scored a million and four times before.”
“A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing.”
Source: The last of England
“A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.”
“A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.”
Source: Reporting America
“A professional magician thinks of magic only twice a day, when he is alone and when he is with someone else.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enenemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy... so it was, I think, with Dryden.”
“A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy; he will be silent on his more personal interests, or, if he must speak, will veil them under conventional forms.”
“A professional player is smarter than a college man. He uses his noodle. He knows what to do and when to do it. He rarely goes up in the air as is the case with most of our college players when they get in a tight place.”
“A professional poker game has many benefits. It helps to develop positive traits, such as patience, humility, control, and analytical thinking. Poker also teaches us to focus on those elements that we can control and to let go of those we have no influence over. The nature of the game and variance force us to acquire skills of capital management and distance ourselves from money. Poker primarily teaches us about discipline, self-control, and making decisions with a long-term perspective.”
Source: Exploitative Play in Live Poker: How to Manipulate your Opponents into Making Mistakes
“A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.”
“A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.”
“A professional who doesn't deliver as committed is not just lazy, he is a liar.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can't do anything else, and then you have another job.”
“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”
Source: A Gift of Wings
“A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.”
“A professionally trained actress should be a better liar, wouldn't you think? But no. I am pathetically underachieved in that area. I can think of a great lie. I'm plenty imaginative. But before the words are even out of my mouth, there's a weird tickle of unease in my armpits, a horsefly of guilt lands on the back of my neck, and before I can stop myself, that gassy little bubble of truth belches out.”
Source: A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages
“A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.”
“A professor from UBC observed that he agreed with Alexander Pope about the ultimate unreality of evil. Seen from the highest point of metaphysics. To a rational mind, nothing bad ever really happens. He was talking high-minded balls. Twaddle! I thought. I said, 'Oh? Do you mean that every gas chamber has a silver lining?”
Source: Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories
“A professor I had in college used to tell me that if someone won’t listen to what you have to say because you’re not wearing a tie, then put on a tie, ’cause what you have to say is more important than not wearing a tie. He was right.”
Source: The Moment It Clicks: Photography secrets from one of the world's top shooters
“A professor is not one who knows, but one who professes to know, and [thus] is constantly in the position of inviting challenge. . . . He professes publicly where everyone is invited to come and challenge, [and] at any time he must be willing and able to defend it openly against all comers. The degree is originally a chivalric device-a gauntlet of defiance to all rivals-and not a safe rampart or dug-out for a scholar to hide behind in safe immunity from any challenge.”
“A professor is one who can speak on any subject - for precisely fifty minutes.”
“A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.”
“A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.”
Source: PREJUDICES A SELECTION
“A professor once told me: Sir, you are insane! In which I replied: Sir, I am just eccentrically very normal !”
“A professor was telling students about his colleagues class. Students in the other class had taken to tossing erasers at the clock. Each precise hit caused it to jump ahead one minute. Before class one morning they succeeded in advancing the clock by ten minutes. Since the new time indicated that the professor was beyond the accepted starting time, the class left. The professor never said a word about the incident. However, he presented the class with a killer of a final exam. As the students labored to finish in the allotted time, the professor amused himself by tossing erasers at the clock.”
“A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]”
“A profile, a look, a voice, can capture a heart in no time at all.”
Source: A Beautiful Mind
“A profit is not without honor save in Boston.”
“A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.”
Source: My Study Windows
“A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.”
“A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being.”
“A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.”
“A profound impression was created by the discourses of Professor GN Chakravarti and Mrs Besant, who is said to have risen to unusual heights of eloquence, so exhilarating were the influences of the gathering. Besides those who represented our society and religions, especially Vivekananda, VR Gandhi, Dharmapala, captivated the public, who had only heard of Indian people through the malicious reports of interested missionaries, and were now astounded to see before them and hear men who represented the ideal of spirituality and human perfectibility as taught in their respective sacred writings.”
Source: The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons
“A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain.”
“A profound knowledge of life is the least enviable of all species of knowledge, because it can only be acquired by trials that make us regret the loss of our ignorance.”
Source: Desultory Thoughts and Reflections
“A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?”
“A profound sense of loss, helplessness, shock, numbness, and disbelief enveloped me.”
“A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“A profound transformation is happening here. The framers of our nation never envisioned these huge media giants; never imagined what could happen if big government, big publishing and big broadcasters ever saw eye-to-eye in putting the public's need for news second to their own interests. I approach the end of my own long run believing more strongly than ever that the quality of journalism and the quality of democracy are inextricably joined ... .”
“A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.”
Source: The English Teacher
“A profundidade da minha consciência me faz sofrer. É uma bênção ou uma maldição sentir tudo tão profundamente?
A única saída é você pegar mais coisas que te envenenam até que se transformem em um tônico que ilumine o mundo ao seu redor.”
“A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
“A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.”
Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962
“A progeny of learning.”
Source: The works: With a biographical sketch
“A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs.”
“A program of "disarmament," while imperialist antagonisms survive, is the most pernicious of fictions. Even if it were realized by way of general agreement - an obviously fantastic assumption!- that would by no means prevent a new war. The imperialists do not make war because there are armaments; on the contrary, they forge arms when they need to fight.”
Source: The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and where is it Going?
“A program of active reading and writing might be the hardest form of thinking, but it is also the most organized methodology of self-education. Reading exposes the mind to a world of ideas heretofore unimaginable and encourages the novice learner to write. Reading is a form a joint mediation and writing represents the product of several authors’ collective and collaborative minds at work.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls