Quotes About Professionalism

It's my responsibility to walk around the hotel with a big smile on my face and not worry about what's happened in the last game.

El empleado ideal sería una persona que no tenga lazos, compromisos ni ataduras emocionales preexistentes y que además las rehúya a futuro.

shave, shine your shoes, put a tie round

Paradoxically, the best way to attract good work is by doing good work.

He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor.

may the day never come when patients are referred to or thought of as customers. The word patient means a sufferer and when someone comes to the doctor they are coming not because they want to buy something but because they want help. Structure and restructure the Health Service how you will doctors are not shopkeepers, patients are not customers and medicine is not a product.

The lawyer Thien, when Morath was ushered into his office by a junior member of the staff, turned out to be an ancient bag of bones held upright only by means of a stiff, iron-coloured suit.

It's really sad looking at people like Lindsay Lohan. She's an amazing actress, but you see what happens when people know too much about your personal life. They start not being able to look at you the same way professionally. I don't want that to happen to me.

When it comes to a fight, you need all your skill and professionalism, but if you want to win that fight, you have to bring a controlled rage as well. We're training to be warriors.

If the prospect on the other end of the phone has no respect for your time, he will not have respect for the other aspects of your service either.

At such times as that, when the TV cameras begin creeping up on a mother weeping at her son's coffin, journalists should wonder where the profession is heading.

I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt.

What I always say is, 'Do every job you're in like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, and demonstrate that ownership of it.'

A lot of people don't think they can count on me, but I've never missed a gig in my life.

I don't write about my life in my column.

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes

Can you get this coffee on expenses?" "I can," said Flora, looking down at the Harbor's Rest's offering in disgust. "I don't think I will, though. Out of respect to the concept of coffee.

A lot of professionals are crackpots.

Whether it's possible or not, being a doctor, you take an oath. To care for your patient, not to kill them. You take an oath to do things that are proper in the medical world. Not to administer something outside of a hospital setting that's not even your area.

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

The secretary was a good-looking girl—or would have been if she'd given herself a chance. Some discouraging experience in her background had made her feel that she couldn't be bothered with sex appeal, and so she slicked her hair back, used no make-up, and hated men.

He talked of his work as something altogether apart from himself. There was nothing conceited or braggartly about him.

Conflict can be healthy within a collaborative group, as long as everyone sticks to the issues and things don't get personal.

There's a word to describe giving it your best shot every time - it's called professionalism.