“I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn't something I ever thought about.” WorldFirstsPlayMy FamilyGuitarWideProfessionFamily And Friends Author:Don McLean
“The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.” YearsFirstsArtRunningSchoolFatherWonderfulDesignSonProfessionShopsMakersRunning AwayInteriorsCabinetsInterior DesignArt SchoolProfessional LifeEldestIndustrial DesignEldest Son Author:Peter Zumthor
“First, it must be a pleasure to study the human body the most miraculous masterpiece of nature and to learn about the smallest vessel and the smallest fiber. But second and most important, the medical profession gives the opportunity to alleviate the troubles of the body, to ease the pain, to console a person who is in distress, and to lighten the hour of death of many a sufferer.” GivingFirstsHumansPersonsImportantBodyPainScienceOpportunityHoursPleasureStudyTroubleImportanceProfessionMedicalEaseSmallestDistressMasterpieceMiraculousHuman BodyVesselConsoleFiberSufferersAlleviateMedical Profession Author:Rudolf Virchow
“Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.” ThinkingWritingYearsFirstsAbleDesireBeliefFeltDifficultActingAchieveCoupleSingingTestsEncouragementBlowProfessionScreensEndlessRejectionRomeUnfairSlidesFaith In YourselfStaggeringAvidReversal Author:Sophia Loren
“When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of life: to become a writer.” FirstsWantedJobsOne ThingProfessionAutumn Book:My Generation: Collected Nonfiction Source: My Generation: Collected Nonfiction
“It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.” ThinkingFirstsPaintingProfessionPainterProstitution Author:Ad Reinhardt
“I was not such a great student, .. So, when I graduated high school, I went to work cooking. I cooked a little at home, but back then, cooking wasn't really a profession that you aspired to, unless your family was in the business. I looked at it as a job. My first job was at Joe Allen's, and I remember there was a photo over the bar of the Triple Dead Heat from the 1944 Carter Handicap.” FirstsLittlesHomeSchoolJobsRememberStudentsHigh SchoolCookingProfessionBarsOur FamilyHeatCarterHandicaps Author:Bobby Flay
“But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.” MenFirstsRememberProfessionGrandfatherSectionsMy GrandfatherPioneers Author:Robert E. Howard