Quotes About Professionalism

Larry Fitzgerald is one of the hardest-working guys I've ever seen. We spent some time training in Minnesota last offseason, and to see what he does to get better, he has to be the best.

I'm nice, and I show up on time.

I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.

I will have no problem coming to practice on time. The locker room is great, but we have to prove ourselves on the court.

I know that sometimes the chemistry just isn't there between the model, photographer, hair and make-up. It's nobody's fault and you just have to do better next time.

All I know is that when I come to the ballpark I'm going to be on time and give 100 percent. I know that I have to do that to keep my job.

As a news person, you can't spend all your time responding to a Comedy Central star. It's not what we do.

A long time ago, I learned not to go up to the boss and ask what's happening to my character. I haven't done that for 20 years, since I was on 'Days of Our Lives.

The night schedule is a crazy pit I fall into most of the time, but I do like it because the buzz of normal professionalism has gone away. Even though you're working, you feel like you're playing.

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

A surgeon in charge of my surgery rotation said that he knew who I was but that he was going to treat me as if I was normal. I sincerely thanked him and told him I would try to act that way.

Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti-environmental.

After that message of 23 April, the entire South Atlantic was an operational theatre for both sides. We, as professionals, said it was just too bad that we lost the Belgrano.

Speaking professionally, it was admirably done. -John H. Watson- -The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes-

Since his idea of professional integrity requires him to live by his principles, in order to remain a person of integrity, he has changed his principles, and now believes in us almost more than we believe in ourselves.

The seemingly easiest and most sensible rule for a doctor to follow is: Always Fight. Always look for what more you could do. (...) But our fight is not always to do more. It is to do right by our patients, even though what is right is not always clear.

No, the more familiar and widely dangerous issue is a kind of silent disengagement, the consequence of specialized technicians sticking narrowly to their domains. "That's not my problem" is possibly the worst thing people can think, whether they are starting an operation, taxiing an airplane full of passengers down a runway, or building a thousand-foot-tall skyscraper.

A young doctor is not so young nowadays; you typically don't start in independent practice until your midthirties. We

Even good doctors can go bad, and when they do, colleagues tend to be almost entirely unequipped to do anything about them.

So you want to keep the list short by focusing on what he called "the killer items" — the steps that are most dangerous to skip and sometimes overlooked nonetheless. The wording should be simple and exact, Boorman went on, and use the familiar language of the profession. Even the look of the checklist matters. Ideally, it should fit on one page. It should be free of clutter and unnecessary colors.

How could anyone who makes a mistake of that magnitude be allowed to practice medicine?

She envied the confidence and poise of the women she saw behind the desk.

At the M & M, the burden of responsibility falls on the attending.

He's a fine doctor," people will say, "but sometimes he has his moments.