Quotes About Professionalism

What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You're taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please.

Treat your time as if someone is paying for it. Someone is.

Amateurs beat the bush, seeking to frighten hiding game into the open. Even when this tactic worked, the amateur found himself poorly prepared and poorly positioned for the kill shot. The professional studied his prey, learned its patterns, and positioned

The end of the professional era is characterized by four trends: the move from bespoke service; the bypassing of traditional gatekeepers; a shift from a reactive to a proactive approach to professional work; and the more-for-less challenge.

This is a new division of labour, and traditional professionals sometimes struggle here because they are no longer in the driving-seat.

Readers may call us radical, but if we can foresee a day when the average laptop has more processing power than all of humanity combined, then it might be time for professionals to revisit some of their current working practices.

El futuro del servicio jurídico no son Grisham ni Rumpole, (1) ni sus pelucas, sus salas de audiencias recubiertas de madera, sus volúmenes forrados en cuero o su argot jurídico arcaico. Ni siquiera es ya hoy dominante el modelo de abogacía concebido como un servicio de asesoría profesional individualizada, desempeñada por abogados que reciben a sus clientes en sus despachos, ya sean esplendorosos o polvorientos, y ofrecen su orientación jurídica a medida.

muy pocas de las personas de las cuales podrías esperar que lleven las riendas en el ámbito jurídico —políticos, socios senior de los bufetes, legisladores y estadistas, profesores de Derecho, magistrados de alto nivel, líderes de los cuerpos profesionales— están, en realidad, mirando más allá de los próximos años. En estos tiempos difíciles para la economía, el "aquí y ahora" parece estar proporcionando suficientes quebraderos de cabeza.

They assume that women are on a mommy track, an unofficial career track that firms use for women who want to divide their attention between work and family. This assumption would be false if applied to all women. It also implies that corporate men are not interested in maintaining a balance between work and family. Even competitive, upwardly mobile women are not always taken seriously in the workplace (Carlson, Kacmar, and Whitten 2006; Heilman 2001; Schwartz and Zimmerman 1992).

I supposed if you were going to make a career of breaking laws, you might as well know them.

It was a cream colored trapeze, sleeveless with a keyhole top that may or may not have been showing managerialappropriate cleavage." -Georgina

He can go to a boardroom meeting . . . he's very proper now." - Sydney Sage

Unless one was going to become a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, an engineer or some other kind of professional person, I saw little point in wasting three or four years at Oxford or Cambridge, and I still hold this view.

This is why you shouldn't hire your friends. It's all nice and professional until the insubordination starts. She sighed.

You're not privileged to call me 'Boss'; you're not tax deductible.

A public employee, having no self-respect, needs and demands a show of public respect.

To Mahmoud, Harshaw looked like a museum exhibit of what he thought of as a "Yank"—vulgar, dressed too informally for the occasion, loud, probably ignorant and almost certainly provincial. A professional man, too, which made it worse, as in Dr. Mahmoud's experience most American professional men were under-educated and narrow, mere technicians.

Well, 'hate' is the other luxury an instructor can never afford. We must not hate them, we must not like them; we must teach them.

Look neat when you look for work, I always say—I do declare I won't hardly open the screen door to give a man a handout if he don't wear a necktie.

How about, you never act like a jerk when you're working," Jenn said. Jesse nodded. "It's why I work," he said.

We don't ask other teachers about their sexual habits.

Pike and his guys were hard-core professionals. Combat discipline was sacrosanct.

I nodded. "I mean, God, I'm paid to advise other people, am I not?" I nodded again. Getting a lot of nod practice tonight.

Truly said, "We've talked to people, Mr. Cole. You've an outstanding reputation for diligence, and your integrity is above reproach.