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Quotes About Professionalism

either. Maybe, like him, she was both a pro and a person, both a job and a life. Had it been a mistake not to include her? Until her, Cooper had never worked with anyone who could match him. And she would be a huge asset if he had to sneak into…
~ Marcus Sakey
May the Architect be high-minded; not arrogant, but faithful; Just, and easy to deal with, without avarice; Not let his mind be occupied in receiving gifts, But let him preserve his good name with dignity...
~ Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
~ Margot Fonteyn
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
~ Margot Fonteyn
The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous.
~ Margot Fonteyn
I hit a ball for a living, but I have that passion to keep learning.
~ Maria Sharapova
You and I are not held to the same standards, Andrew. People will forgive a slip, a weakness, a minor personal folly — when it comes from a man. They may click their tongues at you, even gossip about your behavior…but at worst, it will only reflect on you. "If I misstep, it goes far beyond me. Errors on my part are proof that women are unsuited to professional work.
~ Marie Brennan
The lack of a husband was, for some applicants, a selling point. I imagine many of my readers are aware of the awkward position in which governesses often find themselves -- or, rather, the awkward position into which their male employers often put them, for it does no one any service to pretend this happens by some natural and inexorable process, devoid of connection with anyone's behaviour.
~ Marie Brennan
The patient always comes first and I strive to deliver personalized dental care to each and every patient.
~ Unknown
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.
~ Marilyn Hacker
The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.
~ Alton Brown
Psychotherapy is the prostitution of friendship.
~ Hans Eysenck
The religion of my doctor or my lawyer cannot matter. That consideration has nothing in common with the functions of the friendship they owe me.
~ Michel de Montaigne
A civil servant doesn't make jokes
~ Eugene Ionesco
An engineer is someone who washes his hands before going to the toilet.
~ Anon
The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
~ Unknown
You dont like to see hookers going down on players like that.
~ Unknown
I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.
~ Marilyn Monroe
An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?
~ Marilyn Monroe
I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi ' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.
~ Marilyn Monroe
El gran error de algunos empleados es tratar a sus patrones como si fueran personas".
~ Mario Benedetti
Scott, you're telling me to pad my hours. Isn't that cheating?" "Every place except a law firm.
~ Unknown