Quotes About Professionalism

My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship.

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

I wish 'You idiot.' was an appropriate way to end a work email.

I don't have a problem with idiots. I just have a problem working with them.

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

Design your site so it looks professional

The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.

Professional traders have always had some system or other based upon their experience and governed either by their attitude towards speculation or by their desires.

As for my dignity... the hell with my dignity. I will get along alright in this world. I don't have to be dignified, professional.

Chan Ho had a great career and was the exemplification of class, dignity and character.

People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills.

Like everyone else, there are days when I don't want to go to work. However, writing is a job like anything else.

You go out there and say I fight for the UFC, people know exactly what that is.

In the end, if you're in the UFC, you are a professional, you paid your dues, and you know exactly what this job entails. You should go in there as a professional and do what you do.

For a film to be excellent, everybody working on it must also be excellent.

In the life of a director - these days in particular - when it really does take so long to do a movie, with a few exceptions, actors may never work with a director again, even if they're great friends.

I'm just not the kind of actor to take things home with me in any excessive way.

In the past I would give myself a reason to have an excuse. I wouldn't show up at the gym. I wouldn't do what I'm supposed to do as a professional.

I'm a professional; I've got to be on weight all the time. There's not excuses for that.

Be on time for James Dolan - no excuses like Zebras in the road.

I prefer to be known as an executive rather than a girl.

It is exhausting to be giving one's all in the theatre, my first duty is to my paying public, of course!

I've been working in three-four languages. I'm happy to do it.