Quotes About Professionalism

When I said that I had a history of mental illness, I was told that in that case I could not well expect anyone to take my views on these things seriously. "I'm a trained professional and I'm here to help you," the doctor said. When I said that I was an experienced patient and knew that what she was doing was in fact injurious to me, she told me that I had not been to medical school and would just have to proceed according to what she judged an appropriate protocol.

If you want to be taken seriously, be serious. Take yourself seriously.

She'd learned that it was important when you were dealing with professional do-gooders to keep calm. Otherwise they judged you. Wrote things like anger-management problems in their reports.

didn't like Mr. Nicholls, it wasn't as if he were doing anything illegal. And when I told them that I wouldn't want Joey and Nate to feel as if I'd abandoned them, we agreed that I should continue sitting for them as long as I didn't feel too uncomfortable around Mr. Nicholls.

It made me mad, anyway, that all they wanted to talk about was my family's personal finances. They weren't even interested in Wal-Mart, which was probably one of the best business stories going on anywhere in the world at the time, but it never even occurred to them to ask about the company.

Kirton, Greene, and Dean argue that as diversity becomes more professionalized, practitioners are less likely to mobilize an activist framework. They suggest that diversity practitioners have an ambivalent relationship to institutions, as captured by their use of the phrase "tempered radical" to describe the attitude of practitioners (2007: 1981)

These were his friends of the business community; a man in business had to have such, and he visited and entertained but neither touched nor was touched, ever.

they will have the right to expect from you the highest standards of character, professional competence and integrity.

psychologists are too polite with one another's ideas.

You pay by the hour, even if the job only takes five minutes. I don't do fractions.

El jefe de personal se hacía llamar jefe de recursos humanos y, como los jefes de personal de todo el mundo, era una de las personas menos afables que uno podía encontrarse.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship

A life that most people will never even know about can be yours in this study, but only if you approach it with equanimity, poise, grace, balance, and professionalism.

I absolutely would categorize myself as one of successful professional females. I think you can be successful and still be extremely present in a healthy life.

It's sacred for an actor to keep their personal life personal.

I am a total workaholic. If I don't shoot for two days, I get uncomfortable at home. I won't comment on my personal life. That is totally out of bounds. When I do get married, everyone will know.

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.

My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.

I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.

Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating.

I always separated sports and my personal life.

Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes