Quotes About Professionalism

Bosch took a step toward him. "Olivas, let's get something clear before we go anywhere. You call me 'Hotshot' again and I'm going to shove the file up your ass without taking it out of my briefcase.

He urged the new officers never to break the law to enforce the law. To do their job constitutionally and compassionately at all times.

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Only assholes put a nickname on their business card.

Like all trial attorneys, he knew the importance of not dressing too well.

He further believed that the only way to get people to believe that you were good for their careers was actually to be good for their careers.

The difference between Strauss and Ranieri?" says one trader still at Salomon. "That's easy. Strauss wouldn't stoop to use the men's room on the trading floor. He'd go upstairs. Lewie would piss on your desk.

The RBC trading floor had what the staff liked to refer to as a "no-asshole rule"; if someone came in the door looking for a job and sounding like a typical Wall Street asshole, they wouldn't hire him, no matter how much money he said he could make the firm. There was even an expression used to describe the culture: "RBC nice.

I don't work with crazies anymore

Professionalism in law has brought us the O.J. Simpson case in lieu of justice.

A lot of guys out here are very serious, and God bless them, that's their personality. It's not a sin to be business-like.

I played on a lot of Sinatra sessions. He was simply awesome. He liked to laugh, and he could be one of the boys when he wanted. But he was also a very serious performer.

I work hard, I am punctual and believe that I am sincere.

I will not leave my South films for a Hindi film. I want to be sincere to my South film makers and commitments. Only if my dates are not clashing with any of my South films will I do Hindi films.

I am a professional actor, and I am very careful about being sincere to the characters I play.

I don't think I would've been performing this long if I didn't love it sincerely to the degree that I do. It's not enough to like it. Dilettantes like things. Professionals love things and I consider myself a professional.

An actor must have the sincerity to what he is doing. So you can't take things lightly, you have to be serious every time.

Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.

I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.

Who says I haggled for money? If directors like Yash Chopra promised me an amount for singing 'Tujhe dekha to yeh jana sanam' but back-tracked once the song was a huge hit, am I to blame for asking what was due to me?

I am a businesswoman who goes to work every single day.

I want to be me, and the Arizona Cardinals know what they are getting. They are not getting a kid that is going to say stupid things and piss people off unnecessarily. They are going to get a kid that everyone knows who they are getting every single day I walk into the building.