Quotes About Professionalism

I joined the Secret Service in June 1999 as a special agent and vividly remember an agency brimming with pride.

People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.

I've been really vocal about my disappointment about how the WNBA athletes get treated like second-class citizens in relations to the NBA when they're a subsidiary.

Being more vocal - I think that's something, as a professional, you have to be really good at. You have to be able to speak your mind.

If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal.

If you're interested in a 'Teen Vogue' internship, take note: it's not all fun and games! Working at a magazine requires a ton of energy and endurance from its interns and editors alike.

I try to look after my voice. I am very aware that if I am going to be doing a voice over the next day or on the radio, not to go out to a really noisy place or shout.

When I started playing professionally, it made me realize that I had a voice in the league, one that gave me the chance to share a different side of our day-to-day life and the things that were happening on and off the court.

'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.

The way I look at it, a footballer wouldn't play in flip-flops or dip their feet in acid and then expect to get to David Beckham's level. My voice is my living, so I'll be looking after it.

I love to do voiceover because, for me, if you know what you're doing, it's simple. No makeup, no costuming, none of the baloney. None of the egos - you don't have to deal with all that crap. I love voiceovers.

The voiceover thing is very selfless. You go in there and they've hired you for your voice, but they know exactly what they want, and the writer's there and he knows exactly how it's supposed to be said. So you can't really argue with them, you just have to let them tell you what to do and then do it.

We really can't go out and party every night like a lot of bands do - we have to keep our voices right for the show. It's a bummer, but you gotta do what you gotta do to live the dream.

You won't find any volatile quotes out in the press where I've run the team down publicly.

I spent seven years with Jose and we were part of a very good technical staff. We went to top class clubs at Porto, Chelsea and Inter Milan and worked with top players who gave us such a tremendous volume of success.

If you look at the likes of Agnieszka Radwanska and Svetlana Kuznetsova, they've been around a long time and been successful for a long time. That speaks volumes for them.

Be serious. You've got to do the job you were hired to do well, but there's always more you can do. When I was an assistant, I would say to myself, 'You may not be an executive, but act like one.' I would volunteer for any creative assignment - read scripts, do 'coverage,' write notes.

I'm a working writer; this is my job. So it matters to me that it's good. I sweat over every word. I don't just vomit this stuff up. It's agony. The only thing that comes close is childbirth, except it's like being in labor for eighteen months.

I'll ask the writers' room who they voted for Emmy awards, but I'll never ask who they voted for president.

Films have become much more professional. It is now a secure place for people.

I'm not an actress who's a fan of gratuity, so I don't seek projects that have nudity for nudity's sake. I don't know any actors who do, unless they're in 'Spartacus.'

Lukaku sees football and lives for his game the way I think a top player should live for it.

Everybody sees it and thinks it's so exciting. They don't realize it's a professional sport. Everyone wants to be an ultimate fighter until they get hit.

I don't believe we have a professional self from Mondays through Fridays and a real self for the rest of the time.