Quotes About Professionalism

Suppose you're in a meeting and a colleague says something that you know is the sticky brown substance that bulls excrete.

Su profesión le había enseñado a esconder el miedo, a mostrarse impasible ante las tragedias. El lado negro del mundo, sus penalidades y su miseria formaban parte del trabajo cotidiano.

That's why doctors instinctively "package" themselves in nice shirts and ties and it's not advisable for attorneys to greet clients in Budweiser T-shirts. In

No!" he roared. "I've had enough for today! A little of you goes a long way, lady!" "Please, call me Dione," she murmured. "I don't want to call you anything! My God, would you just leave me alone!" "Of course I will, when my job is finished. I can't let you ruin my record of successful cases, can I?

No woman who builds a career on hard work and talent will ever compliment a much younger one who uses the shallow gift of her looks.

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.

LOTHAM IS THE DEDICATED, WORKAHOLIC detective I suspected him to be. He doesn't take me to some evidence lab or special countersurveillance expert.

I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough.

Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in themselves.

I don't celebrate because I'm only doing my job. When a postman delivers letters, does he celebrate?

I had to remind Gary Kristen often that he was in the covers to field against Sachin not to applaud him

Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might.

I was taught you never, ever disrespect your opponent or your teammates or your organization or your manager, and never, ever your uniform.

Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends.

I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.

One of the Arsenal players came up to me afterwards and said it had been an honor to be on the same pitch as me. I thought, My God, that is a great thing to say when your team has just lost.

It's a hard life as a professional cricketer. It's not as easy as everyone makes out. To survive you need a tough hide.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.

Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut.

I know we're meant to be these hard-headed, money-obsessed professionals but we're still little boys at heart. Just ask our wives.

should be seen as a credible peer by clients and prospects, not as a vendor, salesperson, or subordinate.  client

The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture

In businesses, sir, there are no friends, only associates.

Professionals expect prices to fluctuate most of the time, without going anywhere far. They wait until an upside breakout stops reaching new highs or a downside breakout stops making new lows. Then they pounce—fade the breakout (trade against it) and place a protective stop near the latest extreme point. It's a tight stop, and their monetary risk is low, with a big profit potential from prices returning towards the middle of the congestion zone.