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There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well.
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creative-process
professionalism
writing
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Agatha Christie |
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The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.
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professionalism
work
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Steven Pressfield |
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He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor.
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intelligence
professionalism
significance
vulnerability
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Alain de Botton |
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You thought you knew what food was, you thought it was elemental. You forgot how much restaurant there was in restaurant food and how much home was in homemade.
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home
professionalism
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Jonathan Franzen |
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Everybody else specializes. Daddy knows everything, and he puts the pieces together.
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expertise
integration
openness
professionalism
specialization
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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a modern-day conservator of Monticello says that Woodmont Jefferson as an amateur architect rather than a professional was that he made things more complicated than they needed to be for any practical purpose.
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overcompensation
professionalism
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Bill Bryson |
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One-year enlistment had proven problematic since the troops were scheduled to rotate out of the army just when they had begun to internalize the discipline of military service and became reliable soldiers.
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discipline
habit
internalization
professionalism
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Joseph J. Ellis |
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They looked more like day laborers than seamen.
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competence
confidence
culture
professionalism
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Erik Larson |