Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric.
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Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't.
Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come from another writer one or two rungs on the career ladder ahead of you.
The way the early Protestants taught on the other hand is that everybody is a full time minister in their various places of work. They went to the extent of saying, your job, profession, occupation is your calling
If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment ... all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.
Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
When choosing a profession, a person will have good incentive for personal development by choosing such a profession that represents a personal challenge.
We all have our unique careers that differ from one another, but the fact is that we must become "teachers and learners" at the end of it all! By the "learning career", we know what other people know; by the "teaching career", we make other people to know what we know!
World can run without money and currencies but not without business and trade.
Your money is just a condition to get my business, your professionalism is the price.
Let's get one thing clear, there may be few or many successful people in your profession, but there is going to be only one hero in that profession.
An average trader loses money, so in this profession, you need to be way above average to make consistent money trading the markets.
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
I've been obsessed with stories since I was a kid so it's no surprise that I ended up writing for a living.
In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.
Using one__ beauty was the only way a smart girl could get by, at least that__ how it was back then, though even for a smart girl there were really only three professions. You could be a nurse or a teacher or a wife.
Professional men run the business started by the courageous men.
I don't put my ideas in a meeting for acceptance or rejection, I put them in the market for success or failure.