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Quotes About Professionalism

Fitness is not an option. It's part of my job.
~ Alison Sweeney
A professional is a man who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it.
~ Alistair Cooke
A professional is someone who can do his best when he doesn't feel like it.
~ Alistair Cooke
The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.
~ Alton Brown
I couldn't just be good on the mic. I needed to be good on the mic; I needed to be good in the ring; I need to be good in my presentation; my ring attire need to look good, my appearance. Everything about me needed to be the best. I couldn't be weak in any area because you're only as good as your weakest aspect.
~ Wade Barrett
My family are big philanthropists, but not at putting big money into sport. Today sport is professional. It has to support itself or it won't exist. It cannot depend on a few wealthy people making donations.
~ Frank Lowy
There is no more potent weapon in any profession than a woman with a feminine exterior and a will of steel, and I defy you to find one man who will disagree.
~ Maryanne Trump Barry
As the 19th century teetered into the 20th, the clank of typewriter keys went from solo to symphony. They were the weapon of choice for professional writers, the business elite, people with things to say and the need to say them quickly.
~ Mary Pilon
I've done pretty well as a professional fed-up. The tools of my trade so far have been irony, tongue-in-cheek mockery, and supercilious contempt, but these are highly civilized weapons designed for 18th-century French salons.
~ Florence King
Trash talk is not my thing. I believe I have other weapons to make a fight get booked.
~ Cris Cyborg
People often ask how my hair has that supreme fullness even at midnight. Here's a trick that one of our Fox News stylists taught me: Backcomb your hair just at the crown for height, and then put a large velcro roller there and wear it for as long as you can. I keep rollers in until showtime.
~ Harris Faulkner
Basically, they had asked me if I would shave my head or wear a bald cap. I said look, if you are doing a series for five years I would want to shave my hair because I would go bald with all the gum and glue from the bald cap.
~ Persis Khambatta
I spend the majority of my time in the office and I usually wear a casual bandage dress and flip-flops or slippers.
~ Huda Kattan
I'm always on duty, so I tend to wear suits. I've got double-breasted and single-breasted, mostly dark blues and grays. I'm obsessed with them, and I always have been.
~ Charlie Siem
I cannot bring myself to wear the Nobu hats, or the Nobu T-shirts. But the chef's jacket, that is mine. And when I wear it, I am very proud of myself.
~ Nobu Matsuhisa
It's tempting to think, 'This is silly. I'm an artist. I care about my work, my work is first. I don't care about what kind of dress I wear... That's so secondary to me.' But if you care about your work... then you need to take this part of it just as seriously as you would going into an audition and going into work.
~ Sarah Gadon
I don't care where we're going; I'm gonna wear a suit all day, every day.
~ Ray Lewis
With most tech guys, it's the same outfit every day - they wear their company logo.
~ Tony Fadell
Men don't wear high heels, and they don't make allowances for women who do. Tottering down the corridors of power in beautiful but crippling stilettos telegraphs your preference for style over substance.
~ Donna Brazile
Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.
~ Alessandra Ambrosio
Wearing a suit can seem like a somewhat archaic gesture, a concession to formality in a determinedly casual age.
~ Tom Junod
I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.
~ Linus Torvalds
I don't feel that comfortable being on the runway with a G-string. I shoot G-strings with Victoria's Secret, but on the runway... It's really about the moment. I work with professionals. Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.
~ Alessandra Ambrosio
All my heroes wore coats and ties to work. What happened to men wearing hats? Maybe I should bring back hats.
~ Aaron Sorkin