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Quotes About Professionalism

I don't think I'd get employed if I did pastel eye and a side parting. People would say: 'Get someone else for the job!'
~ Claudia Winkleman
I was a partner at Pricewaterhouse before I got my four year degree.
~ Thom Tillis
I try to do my very best and hopefully that comes through, first to my partner, second of all with Dancing with the Stars, my employer, and third of all with the fans.
~ Valentin Chmerkovskiy
This is not a change of career for me. Just an expansion of it. I have contracts and obligations and business partners who are counting on me. And I would only want to do another movie if it's as good as this one.
~ Claudia Schiffer
An employer would be a complete fool to let an image like college partying influence their hiring decisions.
~ Nick Denton
You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.
~ Robert Smith
As I've become a professional, I just feel more pressure to produce, to score goals and get assists. I know I'm a good player, but it gives evidence of how good you are if you're able to look at how many passes you've made in a game or how many chances you create. It's in the books. It's become more about stats as I've become a professional.
~ Clint Dempsey
I've been in the business over 35 years and had over 6,000 matches and I am helping guys who have only been in the business maybe a year or two and 100 matches. I am taking my 6,000 matches and passing it along.
~ Ricky Steamboat
Designs belong to individual designers; Architecture belongs to communities of practice. We
~ Peter Lucas
Why are nephrologists the worst to date? They are always getting pissed off.
~ Peter Rogers
I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did.
~ Peter Shilton
I deal with other people's information. I don't vomit my own personal life into the public sphere.
~ Peter Watts
Farraj looked at me with the clinical distaste of a chiropodist regarding a septic toenail.
~ Philip Kerr
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.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
No matter what our job title, no matter what our pay, we can choose to approach our work with dignity and care.
~ Philip Toshio Sudo
Even Philip Jones Griffiths, whose portrayal of suffering Vietnamese civilians forms perhaps the best photographic testament of the war, has said, "Your job is to record it all for history. You can't not feel involved, but you have to steel yourself and do your job, take your photographs. That's what you're there for. It's no use crying. You can't focus with tears in your eyes. It's better to do the breaking down later in the darkroom.
~ Phillip Knightley
I work very hard for my clients...I don't always win their cases, but I always give them 100% of my effort and I have gotten more good results than bad.
~ Phillip Margolin
All good trial lawyers develop an ability to keep their emotions hidden when the unexpected happens...
~ Phillip Margolin
The reason the golf pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing
~ Phyllis Diller
El juego político es un asunto de profesionales para impulsar, sobre todo entre la gente menos politizada, un desapego fatalista, favorable, evidentemente, al mantenimiento del orden establecido.
~ Pierre Bourdieu
Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'
~ Robert M. Gates
It's amazing to be able to work with people right at the top of whatever they do... inspiring photographers and stylists with very interesting visual language. The more I do it, the more I enjoy it.
~ Edie Campbell
When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.
~ Tim Berners-Lee
Interviews are vital, but you cannot allow an interviewer to take your life and disturb it.
~ Jerry Lewis