Quotes About Professionalism

Businessmen all think of themselves as big or little professional wizards, but in practice they usually turn out to be hopeless incompetents.

Next time you meet a doctor, and you sit down in his office and he starts to talk, if you have the sense that he isn't listening to you, that he's talking down to you, and that he isn't treating you with respect, listen to that feeling. You have thin-sliced him and found him wanting.

a lesson crucial to those who wanted to tackle the upper reaches of a profession like law or medicine: if you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires (151).

Every moment in front of a customer is a gorgeous opportunity to live your values.

CONFIDENCE is not showing off your VANITY, it's about to be HUMBLED and KIND to others what are you truly SKILLED and PROFESSIONAL about…

When you feel that others are lacking and failing ....first assess the skill, style, quality, results, mindset, support, professionalism and spirit with which you yourself play the game.

Dress for the position you want, not the position you have.

It doesn't matter what your boss thinks as long as he doesn't cry.

Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.

Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?

It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something.

Most of teachers have but one object, viz. to draw their salary. I do not think that a teacher should have no salary. But I think they should earn it first and then think of it.

Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.

I don't care who the student is, teachers should never be condescending. That should be the first rule in the teacher handbook.

Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.

I was taught from a young age that as a teacher, especially a male, you are to never be alone with a female, or even a male student.

never use sarcasm in an email

With every step her carriage seemed to become a little straighter and her movements more assured: it was as though the mere proximity of the building had caused a brisk professional to emerge from the chrysalis of a careworn wife and mother.

Dice sul serio?" "Sul lavoro non scherzo mai", replica duro il delegato. E nemmeno fuori dal lavoro, se è per questo.

The artist has no right to an idea to which he is not socially committed, or the realisation of which could involve a dichotomy between his professional activity and the rest of his life.

All you need remember is one simple rule. Never mix business...with pleasure.

it is equally unprofessional to promise impossible time scales and to cut basic engineering corners to meet a deadline.

What to Say When Asked for an Estimate You say I'll get back to you.