I was a fairly good amateur musician and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions such as medicine law engineering dentistry or nursing.

Very few if any first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.

Law is not a profession at all but rather a business service station and repair shop.

The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid stable business.

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

When I was in college I was debating to try my hand at show business or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust we are all worse off for it.

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere but they're just not comedians. In fact some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so you will feel and look beautiful.

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy it was just a given. I learned to take each day each mission as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case each job as it comes.

Football is my profession now. I'm getting married in August... It's a new experience for me as someone just getting out of college. I still have the same attitude about football I always had. I play hard. I enjoy practice. I'd rather be throwing in passing drills than sitting around and watching TV.

I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude.

Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.

It was really cool to work with Dakota Fanning. I've watched her grow up and I've always loved her films loved her. It was amazing working with someone who was American as well because obviously it's going to be a different energy straightaway. We got on really well she's so professional and hardworking.

Christina Ricci is amazing the most professional actor I think I've ever met. You can be chatting with her and when they call action she's right there.