Professional Quotes - page 42

I think George Mitchell is a consummate professional. He is the ideal selection to handle the job of special envoy if you choose to have a special envoy. (John Kerry)
I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important. View quote
Tom Hanks
I have a problem with players who don't take the loss personally. At a professional level you should - it's our job, it's our livelihood, it's who we are at this level. Every loss should be taken that personal. View quote
Hope Solo
As women professional athletes, you have to have respect for every player and individual. Beyond that, it doesn't matter what your interests are. People can have their own lives. View quote
Hope Solo
It was really cool to work with Dakota Fanning. I've watched her grow up and I've always loved her films, loved her. It was amazing working with someone who was American as well, because obviously it's going to be a different energy straightaway. We got on really well; she's so professional and hardworking. View quote
Kaya Scodelario
I'm not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond. View quote
Cat Power
I don't define myself as autistic first. I don't want to be a professional autistic. I think it's important to have a real job. View quote
Temple Grandin
God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
This is America: the Knights of Columbus, the Grange, Hadassah, the Disabled American Veterans, the Order of Ahepa, the Business and Professional Women of America, the union hall, the Bible study group, LULAC, "Holy Name"-a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky. View quote
George H. W. Bush
I always thought after 2002 that I'd hang up my skates and turn professional and just go on tour and do shows. But I don't know when it is enough. I mean, I still enjoy it. I'm the luckiest girl alive that I get to perform in front of thousands of people, do what I love doing. View quote
Michelle Kwan
Let's face it. My career is now professional vampire. (Cassandra Clare)
Being a professional journalist is rather like training to be a lawyer. There's a certain amount you can learn in school but largely it is a vocation learned through practice, with scepticism being a primary attribute. View quote
Heather Brooke
Journalists are, or ought to be, the public's hired guns sent out to collect information, question it, verify it and distil it to what is important and true. This takes time and skill, and is the only thing a journalist does that marks him or her out as a professional. It's also the reason why anyone would choose well-known newspaper's website over an unknown blog. View quote
Heather Brooke
Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained. View quote
George Santayana
Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. View quote
George Santayana
In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful. View quote
St. Vincent (musician)
I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport. View quote
Barry McGuigan
My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency. View quote
Shirley Chisholm
You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you're not 'professional' any more. View quote
Jeff Foxworthy
My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland U.S.A., which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid. View quote
John Barrowman
Rawlings was a burglar and a thief, but like much of the London underworld he would not have anyone "trash” his country. It is a fact that convicted traitors in prison, along with child molesters, have to be kept in seclusion because professional "faces,” if left alone with such a man, are likely to rearrange his component parts. (Frederick Forsyth)
Since Russia started its aggressive actions against Ukraine he quit his European career and returned to Ukraine (as a volunteer soldier) to defend his homeland. He died in the ranks of the nationalist group Right Sector at the frontline in the Donetsk region. His nom de guerre was Myth – a shortened version from Mephistopheles (the Faust opera). He was not a professional soldier, he was a singer... View quote
Vasyl Slipak
Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman. View quote
Camille Paglia
If professional religious leaders can [no longer] instruct..., our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring fresh insight to our lost and damaged world. View quote
Karen Armstrong
If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella. View quote
Susanna Kaysen