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“Prostitution is said to be the world's oldest profession. It is, indeed, a model of all professional work: the worker relinquishes control over himself... in exchange for money. Because of the passivity it entails, this is a difficult and, for many, a distasteful role.”

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Author:Thomas Szasz

“No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community. The possibility it offers of displacing a large amount of libidinal components, whether narcissistic, aggressive or even erotic, on to professional work and on to the human relations connected with it lends it a value by no means second to what it enjoys as something indispensable to the preservation and justification of existence in society.”

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“I have a reputation in my professional work, negotiating contracts, where I've gone into deals where other people haven't closed the deal, and I've been able to get it done.”

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Author:Keith Rothfus

“Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.”

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Author:Robert M. Hutchins

“In my own professional work I have touched on a variety of different fields. I've done work in mathematical linguistics, for example, without any professional credentials in mathematics; in this subject I am completely self-taught, and not very well taught.”

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Book:The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature

Source: The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature

“Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put three man-years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product, and distributing it for free?”

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Author:Bill Gates

“I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.”

Source: The Fighting Spirit: A Championship Season at Notre Dame

“I don't differentiate between personal and professional work. Everything I do is personal.”

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Author:Bill Frakes

“Most of my professional work has been in these areas - as a historical critic, as a literary critic. I've done very little in the history of interpretation [as Elie Wiesel has]. I've been interested in it, but I have not contributed to that field, really.”

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Author:Hershel Shanks

“The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.”

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Author:Julie Andrews

“Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.”

“I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.”

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Author:Jon Stewart

“If the Commission is to enquire into the conditions "to be observed," it is to be presumed that they will give the result of their enquiries; or, in other words, that they will lay down, or at least suggest, "rules" and "conditions to be (hereafter) observed" in the construction of bridges, or, in other words, embarrass and shackle the progress of improvement to-morrow by recording and registering as law the prejudices or errors of to-day. [Objecting to any interference by the State with the freedom of civil engineers in the conduct of their professional work.]”

“Amateurs hope. Professional work.”

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Author:Garson Kanin

“A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.”

Source: Reporting America

“Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much”

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Author:Whitfield Diffie

“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company's Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years.”

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Author:Didi Conn