Quotes About Professionalism

Today she wore a navy blue suit that deftly minimized a slight tendency to heft.

I will always be there in the wings saying, 'You need to be good to people. You need to take your work seriously. You need to have integrity. You need to work with what you've got.

Once we determined that the money was intact, the plan was simply to buy the house. I am a lawyer, and brought with me more than

we define connected educators simply as ones who are actively and constantly seeking new opportunities and resources to grow as professionals.

Reporters called down every other profession—medicine, law, politics—for failing to meet a level of professional responsibility which they would allow no one to enforce on themselves, and which they themselves would too rarely enforce on their own. Do as I say, not as I do was something you couldn't say to a six-year-old, but it had become a ready cant for grown-ups. And if it got any worse, then what?

If you're really good, they'd taught him at Quantico, you don't have to be arrogant.

Horner also, to quote John Paul Jones, has something a professional officer must have: "the nicest sense of personal honor." Right and wrong are identifiable in Chuck's universe, and separate. In a community where a man's word is his life, Chuck Horner's word is found in gold lettering on an adamantine wall of granite.

proverbial pros from Dover

Diane used to joke that I was getting in touch with my own inner asshole, but all I was really doing was claiming my American birthright. There's a sales professional lying dormant in each and every one of us, just waiting for a chance to blossom.

I am alarmed by the violence that women do to one another: professional violence, competitive violence, emotional violence. I am alarmed by the willingness of women to enslave other women. I am alarmed by a growing absence of decency on the killing floor of professional women's worlds.

Surprised at those words, his assistant let go of the saliva ejector, which slid halfway down my throat. Apparently, the latest updates on the boss's private life had not gotten around yet. "Ghghghgh," I said. "Sorry," Lena whispered.

boys into sports programs where they're expected to behave like seasoned professionals. It's not tying your love and acceptance

As a professional programmer, you should know that trying to be focused and "productive" 60 hours a week is not a sensible thing to do.

It doesn't matter to me what place I get traded to. If I was traded someplace -- I'd play anywhere.

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I have to believe that Adam was not the intended recipient of that hideous, disgusting picture. How do gynecologists do it all day, look between the legs of their patients and not just…just throw up?

I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

When you're going to games, you're going to work -- and that's something that, over the years, I've had to gravitate to. The NBA's a Fortune 500 company. That's how you look at it. And all the other Fortune 500 companies out there in the world, you don't see their CEOs and COOs going to work with white tees and baggy clothes and stuff like that. So I have to take that same approach.

you can invite trouble if you slouch, avoid eye contact, use vague, imprecise language, and are generally sloppy in your attire.

The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.

Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.

A lawyer must first get on, then get honor, and then get honest.

A lawyer's opinion is worth nothing unless paid for.

When you're a professional, you come back no matter what happened the day before.