Top 1200 Professional Writer Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing.

I just want to stay professional.

We didn't want to become professional Northerners.

Partisanship is not part of my professional makeup.

I was a professional cricketer for 16 years.

Professional trust is a process, not a state.

Professional sports are something they can't control.

I came in on time, I was always a professional.

I am professional and not just in basketball.

Professional lacrosse isn't very lucrative.

I see myself as a professional feeler.

Anything you do in your life, you have to be a professional.

I am a professional when I get in the ring.

The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community, his own country, his own government, his own culture. The more freedom the writer possesses, the greater the moral obligation to play the role of critic.

If you're going to be a professional you continue to grow.

I try to be professional and play all the games I can.

I was a professional dancer before I was an actor.

I want to evolve and improve as a professional.

There's this great fashion among writers, especially those who follow the transnational conservatives like V.S. Naipaul, to disavow one's place in the world as a sort of box that has sprung you but is only worthy of your scorn, because it once contained you. And I've been tempted to say foolish things, like "I am an American writer" or "I belong nowhere," but the truth is I'm perfectly proud of identifying as an Indian writer, even if that might hurt my bottom line.

I'm a professional; I feel I'm one of the best in the game.

I'm not a social rider. Strictly professional.

Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help. Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you? Meggie Folchart: You say that as if it's a bad thing. Fenoglio: Oh no, it's just a lonely thing. Sometimes the world you create on the page seems more friendly and alive than the world you actually live in.

You have to be a professional in every single thing you do.

The time has come for professional jurors.

I'm not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond.

In professional wrestling, the fans are tremendous.

You have to be professional and think about the future.

I can finally say I'm a professional actress.

Every professional has their way of working.

If success in selling is my primary interest, I am not primarily a writer, but a salesperson. If I teach success in selling as the writer's primary objective, I am not teaching writing; I'm teaching, or pretending to teach, the production and marketing of a commodity.

All I have ever wanted to do is be a professional footballer.

I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen.

I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.

I'm a professional, and I focus on one fight at a time.

Professional athletes die twice.

My mistakes made were learning how to work with different groups of people. I mean, I went to school at Berkeley, which is a pretty diverse group, but working in a professional setting, I hadn't really done that before and learning about office politics, learning about interactions between different people and I made a lot of mistakes there during my time as a young person. I was 19 or 20 at the time. So, I would say those were my biggest career mistakes, but fortunately they were made in the context of an engineering co-op program and not in a professional field.

Let's face it: I am not a professional runner.

I don't have a problem with anyone on a professional level.

I am the opposite of someone who is not professional.

Professional Southerners sicken me.

The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them. A young writer must cross many psychological barriers to acquire confidence in his capacity to produce good work-especially his first full-length book-and he cannot do this by staring at a piece of blank paper, searching for the perfect sentence.

The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood; and another way, into a bellicose mood. I'm most happy to be a writer.

I can't define myself as a political writer - I don't think I've earned it, and I don't function as a political writer in the way that many of the writers I admire do. It's not simply a question of context, of where I'm writing from - there is much in American society that urgently needs to be written about. I think your work is always engaged with politics in the looser sense of the word - and that looseness is itself a kind of privilege - because politics and culture are evidently intertwined.

I wish I could be a professional singer.

Every professional was once an amateur.

Wedding hasn't affected my professional life at all.

Cesc is professional and he's always shown it.

I've done everything in professional wrestling.

If you're a song writer, it's a bit different because you are expressing your own words, feelings, perspective. As an actor, you are doing your best to interpret and express the root of the character's perspective which have been established by the writer. There are parallels of performing. Tapping into your own emotional piggy bank. The biggest commonality is if you are successful in either industry, you get free snacks all the time.

When you come to work you're expected to be professional.

I think my family's watched me over the years in my career, in my pursuit of my career, and they've seen the challenges and the struggles that come with being an actor, with being a writer and a director, and the challenges of morphing my career in from just being an actor into a writer/director.

Here in America, people are very professional.

I give 150%. I'm a professional, a pro.

Benitez is a very good professional.

The process of writing can be a powerful tool for self-discovery. Writing demands self-knowledge; it forces the writer to become a student of human nature, to pay attention to his experience, to understand the nature of experience itself. By delving into raw experience and distilling it into a work of art, the writer is engaging in the heart and soul of philosophy - making sense out of life.

My family doesn't interfere in my professional decisions at all.

There's room for everyone in professional wrestling.

As a writer, I could write in Canada and still get the American benefits. But I wanted to come down here for the good weather and for the parties, I want to be social too. Being in LA is really great for that, for just running out and grabbing coffee with another writer. I couldn't do that in Canada. I love Los Angeles, and I love New York too; I just couldn't raise three kids there.

My dream was always to be a professional athlete.

As a professional, I cannot afford to be complacent.