A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.
Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
Educational opportunities have supported the rise of the African middle class, the professional cadre of young people who are now willing and able to contribute to Africa's future prosperity.
You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.
Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.
The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.
I have a personal life and a professional life, and there's no way to separate them; for a while I tried, but no one could find me.
My life as a professional athlete has allowed me the opportunity to visit and live in many different places and meet many interesting and diverse people.
I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.
It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.
In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.
The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podiatrist - is predicated on willpower. Without it there simply wouldn't be any remuneration, period.
I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame.
Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.
As a professional, it pains me to watch a movie that is botched and amateurish. I prefer directors who have control of both their craft and their ideas.
At Year Up, we have helped thousands of students rise from poverty into a professional career in a single year.
I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.
I realized I was officially a professional writer when all my plans began with "drink coffee" and ended with "take a nap.
I always played hockey, I was always a hockey fan, but I was never bitten by the hockey bug... I never looked into playing it professionally.
