Professional Quotes - page 2

I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives. (Katherine Dunham)
I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun. View quote
Brandi Chastain
Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised. View quote
Brit Hume
I've always wanted to be a professional golfer and I'm glad that came true. View quote
Karrie Webb
I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it. View quote
Karrie Webb
I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you. View quote
Martin Yan
On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture. View quote
Mike Johanns
I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all. View quote
Norman Granz
So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one. View quote
Sidney Poitier
Writers take words seriously-perha ps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader. View quote
John Updike
He had no wish to obliterate anything he had written, but he would dearly have liked to revise it, envying painters, who are allowed to return to the same theme time and time again, clarifying and enriching until they have done all they can with it. A novelist is condemned to provide a succession of novelties, new names for characters, new incidents for his plots, new scenery; but, Mr Pinfold maintained, most men harbour the germs of one or two books only; all else is professional trickery of which the most daemonic of the masters - Dickens and Balzac even - were flagrantly guilty. (Evelyn Waugh)
A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it; an amateur is one who can't when he does feel like it. View quote
James Agate
It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. View quote
Thomas Paine
I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes. View quote
Ethel Merman
I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away. View quote
George Carlin
Believe in yourself. Listen to the photographers you work with, and try to be professional at all time. View quote
Alessandra Ambrosio
The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional. View quote
Richard Burton
A professional is one who believes he has invented breathing. View quote
Peter Porter (poet)
My practice as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel, or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world. View quote
J. B. S. Haldane
I would hate to think I am not an amateur. An amateur is one who loves what he is doing. Very often, I'm afraid, the professional hates what he is doing. So, I'd rather be an amateur. View quote
Yehudi Menuhin
In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American - on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion. (Wallace Stevens)
[hitrecord. org is my] alternative outlet of where I get to be a little less professional and just freak out a little bit. View quote
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon. View quote
Robert Benchley
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic. View quote
Raymond Chandler
[I would like to be] one of [the first pop singers to perform in a free Cuba]. I know the list is huge. And it would be hard to pull off -- I'd have a lump as big as a tostone [fried green plantain] in my throat. But oh my God, what a dream -- it would be the height of my personal and professional career. View quote
Gloria Estefan