The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or…

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. James Baldwin

— AB

Writing is not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy.

— Jamaica Kincaid

My main hope for my children would be that whatever profession or calling they choose in life, that they pursue it with passion.

— Shakira

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.

— Graham Greene

“The price one pays for having a kind man at one’s elbow.”

— John Hersey

I never knew how high a price one pays for being taken care of.

— Susan Jeffers

Tis impossible to judge with much Præcision of the true Motives and Qualities of human Actions, or of the Propriety of Rules contrived to…

— John Adams

I consider an intimate knowledge of the Bible an indispensable quality of a well educated man.

— Robert Andrews Millikan

“All cities have a certain fascination that is lost with too intimate a knowledge.”

— Sidney Dark

Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

— Walter Gropius

I find it hard to manage somebody's work unless I have an intimate knowledge of how to do it myself.

— Justin Kan

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot…

— C. S. Lewis

It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to…

— Daniel Barenboim

I do bring an intimate knowledge of the South African team. I know the little idiosyncrasies of each of them.

— Mickey Arthur

My intimate knowledge of the [UN] system allowed me to get things done despite the many obstacles.

— Kofi Annan