Quotes About Professionalism

A trainer should never declare his students to be dead

Also, remember that this is about the employee's performance and not his or her personality. You want your employees to be happy at work, but you don't want them to be happy if their work is not up to your standards.

I have nothing but respect for HBO.

We're professionals. People make deals, they need to stick to them. That's the way it works, if it's going to work at all.

It doesn't do for people, especially doctors, to go about 'thinking' things. They may get into frightful trouble.

Mr. Bunter was professionally accustomed to judge human beings by their behavior, not in great crises, but in the minor adjustments of daily life.

At meetings you have to explain what you've accomplished, so naturally you fluff up your work a bit, like pillows on a couch.

There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well.

Servants must be treated with the utmost courtesy. They are doing skilled work which you could not possibly do yourself without long training. And remember they cannot answer back. You must always be polite to people whose position forbids them to be rude to you. If you are impolite, they will despise you, and rightly, because you have not acted like a lady.

It is not for me to run here and there, doing amateurishly the things that for a small sum someone else can do with professional skill.

You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.

I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because they're making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right.

an actor friend of mine calls the 'John Wayne status.' " "What's that?" The question brought a small smile to her face. "Wayne never performed until he finished his morning's business. Usually, he was regular. But every so often, he was stymied. Sometimes there would be hundreds of people on the set milling about for hours, waiting for one man to have a bowel movement.

Amateurs try to write in one go; professionals draft and draft again.

I don't need much of a character in my life. I've already got one; my family knows who I am, and I don't have a reason to make an impression on the world around me unless it's in a professional context. Acting is not a personal experience; it's a job.

I think when I got to Sauber you can really feel the difference in personal experience in the team. They've been around for a long time and also the construction team is a lot stronger.

In my career as an actress, I have never got involved with anybody from the world of films. I have always kept my professional and personal life separate, as that's my policy.

I am not an outgoing person. I am a very aloof person who gives a lot to his work. It's very difficult to have a personal life with this kind of mindset.

When I went on 'The Hills,' I never showed my personal life. It was always about my career life - I thought people could take me seriously because they'd see I'm a hard-working girl. Then when I chose to do 'The City,' I took the next step to show my personal life.

I don't want to mix my work and personal life. They should be kept separate.

Being an actor, the less people know about my personal life, the more open-minded they can be about each role I play.

When you're doing eight shows a week, you don't have much of a personal life.

I want my work to make news and not my personal life.

I just want to be known for the work I do, not my personal life or what I'm wearing.