Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.
I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
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.
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.]
Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.
Amateurs hope. Professional work.
The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.
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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