Quotes About Professionalism

A dentist at work in his vocation always looks down in the mouth.

Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.

There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.

Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.

My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.

It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.

The funny thing is, the girls that I'm always up against for roles are pretty nice and cool, like Emma Watson. She's awesome.

Sometimes we have to actually say, I think you're really funny, but none of your jokes are going to make it on the air. So just answer my questions. Seriously.

Good cops make their bosses look good, and Hector was a one-man beauty school.

I never saw anything funny in a car commercial - but that's OK. Whatever they wanted to do - it's their product and I'm the spokesperson, and I'm going to deliver.

Be nice to me or you won't get a future XFL franchise.

You have to be professional and think about the future.

Assume everything you put on the Internet can and will be seen not only by the person you're talking about, but your future romantic partners and bosses, too.

I think I'm careful. My goal is to try to stay away as much from opinion journalism as possible.

The idea of a journeyman actor, people sort of say negatively - "Someone who never made it for real" - [but] I think a journeyman actor is the complete goal.

Every woman I know in the broadcast business worked hard so we can talk about sports, not talk about us talking about sports. Ultimately, that's the goal. When the game starts, it's just a game.

Always be wary of the Software Engineer who carries a screwdriver.

The golden rule of work is that the bosses jokes are ALWAYS funny.

You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you're not 'professional' any more.

And why is it that some men just can't deal with the idea that a smart, together, professional woman like me can actually deserve their respect and still want to be thrown down on the couch and pounded like a cheap steak now and then?

I think the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.

As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

They give the appearance that the professional is obtaining the information necessary to diagnose and then treat the problem. In fact, such intellectual understanding of a problem blocks the kind of presence that empathy requires. When we are thinking about people's words and listening to how they connect with our theories, we are looking at people - we are not with them.