Quotes About Professionalism

A strike within the realm of the professional never justifies retribution in the realm of the personal

That's personal?" "Sometimes, with you, I think 'Would you like fries with that?' is too personal.

Even when times were good, I realized that my earning power as a golf professional depended on too many ifs and putts.

We've come a long way. Power dressing now is designed to let the woman inside us come through.

Don't underestimate the power of the nonverbal. You'd be amazed how many people come in for interviews with poor posture, weak handshakes, and blank stares.

The engineer's power was usually limited to a refusal to endorse a given plan, or to the tender of his resignation.

My brothers and sisters prayers and faith in God does not negate professionalism and dignity of labour.

My goal on the show was to be professional. But sometimes you cant help who you have a connection with, and you can only fight it for so long - which I did for a really, really long time.

Film's hard when you don't have any relationship with the director at all and you just show up. Then you really are just a gun for hire.

Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.

In the first place, in the physician or surgeon no quality takes rank with imperturbability, and I propose for a few minutes to direct your attention to this essential bodily virtue.

Any success I have had began by my showing up on time, being prepared, and doing the best possible job. There is a lot to be said for that. That isn't wisdom; that's common sense.

Any success I have had began by my showing up on time, being prepared, and doing the best possible job.

Over and over again, while I was in the law school, I was astonished at how eagerly many of my peers surrendered to this regimen of professionalistic conditioning, often squelching their own most intelligent opinions or creative impulses in order to conform or to appear to be conforming.

At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.

Where visual artists are concerned, the Baroque sculptor and architect Bernini and the painter and sculptor Picasso were clearly adept at both experiential and instrumental attending, says Tellegen, as is the modern architect Frank Gehry. Choosing a literary example, he says that F. Scott Fitzgerald once admitted to "wrapping one of his romantic flings in cellophane" for later artistic use and notes that "this kind of heartless but honest professionalism is not uncommon among creative people.

La professionalità, Steve, è rendere il massimo anche nelle condizioni peggiori

I saw the head chef at the Hotel Majestic fire a pastry cook because the poor devil could not get his brioches to rise straight. This ruthlessness made all the other chefs feel that they were working in the best kitchen in the world.

Do not make the common mistake of regarding your clients as dopes. Make friends with them. Buy shares in their companies. But try not to become entangled in their politics. Emulate Talleyrand, who served France through seven regimes.

Only amateurs use short copy.

The vet, a fiercely caring professional, told them the horse was dying. Knowing her duty, she said: "I want to euthanize it.

Laboratory virologists are not generally knockabout people. You don't meet them in bars, waving their arms and bragging lustily about the perils of their métier. They tend to be focused, neat, and still, like nuclear engineers.

Never keep a lawyer waiting. They have friends in low and infernal places.

My agent says that I'm a 'repeat business guy.' If you hire me to come do a movie, I'll be on time, know all my material, be ready to go, have a good attitude. I'm here to work, so I get hired over and over again by the same producers. If you just be a team player on set you can work so much more often.