Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.
You know when I decided to become professional - that means to expose yourself naked to the world with the other creative minds - I said, 'I'm going into areas I don't know. I might just fall right down to hell and kill myself.
I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Architecture is not a profession, it is a discipline.
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself.
Amateurs built the Ark; Professionals built the Titanic.
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting.
There is no such thing as an amateur artist as different from a professional artist. There is only good art and bad art.
Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm , reverence, obedience, and perseverance. As soon as you can, place yourself under the guidance of a master, and remain with him as long as possible.
What we make is more important than what we are, particularly if making is our profession.
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.
As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.
I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.
There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination. They look, but they don't see.
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
If it isn’t for the writing, we’ve got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let them know it.
Love is your job description - no matter what you do for a living. If you ever feel unsure of what you're supposed to do in a situation, here's a good rule of thumb: always do what leads to greater love.
A true teacher does not terrorize ignorant students, because a true teacher knows that it is his job to cure ignorance.
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