“And we realized that it was kind of a starting point for gymnastics, to go professional, and also to just get a lot more of the audiences in the arenas on the off years, in the years that we're not in the Olympics.”
Shannon Miller
“If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.”
Red Adair
“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.”
Alan Greenspan
“It was not written as a personal therapy. We are professionals. We have a cause and a point of view and we want to get it out as effectively as we possibly can. It's a personal story, but it was done for reasons that were other than personal.”
Daniel Cohen
“That's the same kind of thing that employers need to be doing to be more professional and effective at training anybody, no matter what age they are. The sheep-dip approach isn't working any more.”
Dianah Worman
“It's huge. And eventually it's going to start extending into the early 30s, as young professionals get into it.”
John White
“We proceeded to start a professional theatre but not really knowing how to do it. As my mom said, 'The reason it succeeded is because we didn't know that we didn't know how to run a theatre.' Raleigh didn't have a strong professional theatre where you could see high-quality revivals. [Audiences] ate it up. We grew from there.”
William Jones
