T Quotes
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“The profession I chose was politics; the profession I entered was law. I entered the one because I thought it would lead to the other.”
Source: The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson
“The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.”
Source: In Darkest England and the Way Out
“The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is the one calling in which at the beginning the only exertion is that of self-indulgence; all the prizes are at the commencement. It is the ever-new embodiment of the old fable of the sale of the soul to the Devil. The tempter offers wealth, comfort, excitement, but in return the victim must sell her soul, nor does the other party forget to exact his due to the uttermost farthing.”
Source: In Darkest England and the Way Out
“The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.”
“The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.”
“The profession of journalism is an important one and considered by many to be a mandatory component of a free society. Will you get access to the brightest minds and greatest reporters for free? Perhaps, but if we hope to continue to see their best work, society needs to support them properly. Be a paid subscriber.”
Source: The Prepared Investor: How to Prevent the Next Crisis from Affecting Your Financial Independence
“The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.”
“The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.”
Source: The journal of Jules Renard
“The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics.”
“The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man. But it is a lovely work if you can stomach it.”
Source: Time Enough for Love
“The profession of the law of which he [a judge] is a part is charged with the articulation and final incidence of the successive efforts towards justice; it must feel the circulation of the communal blood or it will wither and drop off, a useless member.”
“the profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!”
Source: Around Old Chester
“The profession to which we belong, once venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position.”
“The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming out in each individual work. He knows that any job, whether it’s a novel or a kitchen remodel, takes twice as long as he thinks and costs twice as much. He accepts that. He recognizes it as reality. The professional steels himself at the start of a project, reminding himself it is the Iditarod, not the sixty-yard dash. He conserves his energy. He prepares his mind for the long haul. He sustains himself with the knowledge that if he can just keep those huskies mushing, sooner or later the sled will pull in to Nome.”
Source: The War Of Art
“The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming out in each individual work.”
“The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.”
“The professional astronomy community should affectionately think of me as their law enforcement officer.”
“The professional astronomy cover-up of their sickened high altitude observatory workers needs to stop, as it is an illegal activity under USA law.”
“The professional astronomy management team advised us to take drugs and oxygen to treat our acute mountain sickness, not supplements.”
Source: Toxic Altitude
“The professional astronomy management team called the strange sickness in their summit workers ‘Summit Brain’.”
Source: Summit Brain
“The professional astronomy management teams were notable for their silence regarding the long term health issues they had observed in their summit workers.”
Source: Summit Brain
“The professional ball never stops rolling until the goal is hit”
“The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.”
“The Professional Children's School, it's for professional kids, so if you wanted to ditch, you could just write, Audition on a note and leave. I didn't really like school all that much.”
“The professional conducts his business in the real world. Adversity, injustice, bad hops and rotten calls, even good breaks and lucky bounces all comprise the ground over which the campaign must be waged. The field is level, the professional understands, only in heaven.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“The professional dedicates himself to mastering technique not because he believes technique is a substitute for inspiration but because he wants to be in possession of the full arsenal of skills when inspiration does come. The professional is sly. He knows that by toiling beside the front door of technique, he leaves room for genius to enter by the back.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks his outworn body and dons a new one. He continues his journey.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“The professional does not wait for inspiration; he acts in anticipation of it.”
Source: Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work
“The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve.”
Source: Crooning
“The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“The professional iconoclast is such either
because he does not understand the nature of images and rites, or because he does not trust the understanding of those who practice iconolatory or follow rites. call the other man an idolater or superstitious is, generally speaking, only a manner of asserting our own superiority.
Idolatry is the misuse of symbols, a definition needing no further qualifications. The traditional philosophy has nothing to say against the use of symbols and rites ; though there is much that the most orthodox can have to say against their misuse. It may be emphasized that the danger of treating verbal formulae as absolutes is generally greater than that of misusing plastic images.”
Source: Christian & Oriental Philosophy of Art Formerly: "Why Exhibit Works of Art?"
“The professional is acutely aware of the intangibles that go into inspiration. Out of respect for them, she lets them work. She grants them their sphere while she concentrates on hers.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.”
“The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells
“The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.”
“The professional permanent staff that lies right beneath them will still be in place, making everything work until the [Donald] Trump appointees start populating the offices on top of them.”
“The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them.”
“The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.”
“The professional tackles the project that will make him stretch. He takes on the assignment that will bear him into uncharted waters, compel him to explore unconscious parts of himself. Is he scared? Hell, yes. He's petrified.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“The professional will not tolerate disorder... He wants the carpet vacuumed and the threshold swept, so the Muse may enter and not soil her gown.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.”
“The professional, though he accepts money, does his work out of love. He has to love it. Otherwise he wouldn’t devote his life to it of his own free will.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“The professionalism of technique and flash of dexterity are more comfortable to be around than raw creative power, hence our society generally rewards virtuoso performers more highly than it rewards original creators.”
Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
“The professionalization of poetry, or the balkanization, has come out of the fact that when you apply to most creative writing programs, you have to choose your genre.”
“The professionals must set a good example.”
“The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like the dog in the fable, whose collar has made an indelible mark around his neck. The amateur is the shaggy wolf whom no dog had better trust too far.”
“The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the approval of a publisher and an audience, but what is valued in fiction writing - style, individual voice, insight - is scorned by the editor who is combing through your newspaper article.”
“The Professor gripped his axe, having pulled it, with some difficulty, from the boy's head.”
Source: The Village Witch