I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did.

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience you can change things: countries structures economic models colonial states.

I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors officials the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.

My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary sloppy reflection of who I am.

I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.

I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.

I served the famous professors and scholars and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.

When you become famous being famous becomes your profession.

There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.

The countries who do the best in international comparisons whether it's Finland or Japan Denmark or Singapore do well because they have professional teachers who are respected and they also have family and community which support learning.

I'm still going to make mistakes but I don't have any problems with publicly professing my faith now. It just took me a long time to get to the right place in my relationship with Christ.

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.

Every life is a profession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent but with great inner drive go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

But whatever my failure I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession just as my grandfathers were in theirs in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.

The failure of women to have reached positions of leadership has been due in large part to social and professional discrimination.

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.

I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.

My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot but it can't access the hidden places.

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself and your imagination and experience but actually in the end you're not playing yourself.

Parents it seems have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.