An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.
Ben Shahn

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

There is a lot of use of ProTools in professional studios, but this is mostly for the special effects it allows, not for sound quality. These special effects soon fall out of fashion, and I don't think this trend will define studios permanently.
Steve Albini

My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever.
Colin Mochrie

I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.
Bruce Boxleitner

My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.
Robert B. Laughlin

Well, first of all, they're all about the music and all I care about in my professional career is the music.
Ronnie Spector

The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford.
Trevor Nunn

When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50.
Guy Forget

My earliest professional musical experiences were really as a session player, and every day was an adventure. Three sessions a day, every day, and you never knew who you would be working with until you arrived at the studio.
Rick Wakeman

They have accorded me my constitutional rights, and that is to their credit because the media hate campaign against me has been so intense and so vicious that it's a miracle that the police have taken such a professional approach.
Ernst Zundel

You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult.
Robin Yount

Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious students engaged in professional studies; my sister became a doctor of medicine and my brothers became lawyers.
Frederick Reines

I tell her all the time I'd gladly retire and hang out with the kids and clean the house. I want to have a good life and great family, and from a professional standpoint I want to be successful, but it's not the most important thing at all.
Nick Lachey

On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture.
Mike Johanns

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.
Jim Sensenbrenner

If you ask the people who are professional political analysts, they would say that the way redistricting has worked, that the Republicans have something of a lock on the House until a redistricting occurs after 2010, particularly as a result of what DeLay did in Texas.
John Podesta

I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.
Major Taylor

At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.
Fred Saberhagen

At St. Francis de Sales in Atlanta, we do not have an organ. We do not have rehearsals during the week. We do not have a professional choir.
Richard Morris