Professional Quotes

#1. As an actress, I get plenty of drama in my professional life. When I'm at home, I want a peaceful life.

Lysette Anthony

#2. I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit.

Lloyd Waner

#3. I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it.

Rodney Dangerfield

#4. You can be an amateur and have a passion for something, but it takes a long time to actually become a professional, meaning that you can handle any situation.

Patton Oswalt

#5. I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on the character. In Hollywood, what more can you ask for. You want a consummate professional.

Martin Lawrence

#6. Once you become a professional athlete or once you do anything well, then you're automatically a role model ... I have no problem being a role model. I love it. I have kids looking up to me and hopefully I inspire these kids to do good things.

LeBron James

#7. Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some particularly apt and original way of putting it down on paper.

John Dos Passos

#8. At its core, comedy is an act of rebellion. Evidence shows that compared to the norms in the population, comedians tend to be more original and rebellious - and the higher they score on these dimensions, the more professional success they attain. After

Adam M. Grant

#9. If you want to continue to develop and expand your professional skills then you need a new environment.

Rebecca Shambaugh

#10. The fact of playing an instrument and singing ... that I can try to make my dream of singing and becoming a professional musician come true is linked probably to the fact that I traveled a lot, which gave me an open mind and an ability to push my limits.

Rokia Traore

#11. The brief legal emancipation of Jews during the Napoleonic wars released unparalleled economic, professional, and cultural energies. It was though a high dam had suddenly been breached.

Amos Elon

#12. Perhaps the worst software technology of all time was the use of physical lines of code [for metrics]. Continued use of this approach, in the author's opinion, should be considered professional malpractice.

Capers Jones

#13. When it came time to be a professional rapper, I wouldn't sign anything without reading it. There was no way I was going to have people make decisions for me or wake up one day and find that I was broke because I never bothered to read a contract.

Queen Latifah

#14. My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday.

Bob Feller

#15. All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.

Ben Affleck

#16. Well who can truly understand politics any more, ever since they all went professional it's all sort of blurred with the entertainments industry.

Steve Merrick

#17. We are in danger of government by professional office-holders ...

Gore Vidal

#18. The professional knows that Resistance is like a telemarketer; if you so much as say hello, you're finished.

Steven Pressfield

#19. Happiness is knowin' you've done a good job, whether it's professional or for another person ...

Elvis Presley

#20. I grew up around music. My father was a professional musician. We used to have a trailer house that we travelled in. I've always loved music. Started out loving to sing to the standards and songs of the early 50s, then that interest shifted to rock and roll, Motown, folk.

Timothy B. Schmit

#21. One of the great things about a celebrity pro-am is that you get to play along with the very best professional golfers in the world.

Cheech Marin

#22. Are not most professional mathematicians spared all trouble incident to income?

Tobias Dantzig

#23. Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier.

John Eisenhower

#24. With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the way in which the physical characteristics of human communities are related to their cultural capabilities can be written on the back of a postage stamp.

Lancelot Hogben

#25. I think especially in her position, a highly successful professional woman, it would be a real exception to have an unwed child.

Dan Quayle

#26. Self-doubt is common, but when it impedes you from attaining your goals it's time to take action. This book shows you how to move beyond feeling like an imposter so that you can achieve your full personal and professional potential.

Lois P Frankel

#27. I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.

Imre Kertesz

#28. What's the meaning of "giornalista professionista"? I have always thought a professional to be a good prostitute!

William C. Brown

#29. The greatest owner in professional sports history is Eddie DeBartolo.

Ronnie Lott

#30. Acting is the most insecure of all the trades, the most risky. In their professional lifetime most actors rehearse longer than they play, spend more time traipsing from office to office in search of jobs than they rehearse and play combined.

Tallulah Bankhead

#31. When you're doing something like body paint or a nude shoot, you're making yourself very vulnerable, and you're really trusting people to really take care of you and make sure everything is very professional.

Ronda Rousey

#32. I want to successfully make the transition from a life in professional sports to another life, without running into major upheavals.

Oliver Kahn

#33. THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn.

Ken Hensley

#34. Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly.

Jim Evans

#35. The big problem in making the hard decisions has much to do with the personal and professional well-being of the person making the call.

Chuck Martin

#36. America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.

David Letterman

#37. I'm a Mormon. I don't do a lot of the off-the-field activities that athletes are known to do. And I guess I've created a world that is unlike the typical world of a professional athlete.

Jeff Kent

#38. I spent 10 years in professional politics and eight writing comics, and so I look at it from both sides. I don't understand the logic in being frustrated with a system, so you choose to be a part of the reason why the system is so frustrating. If everybody voted, it wouldn't be this way.

Andrew Aydin

#39. You can't go into the chef's office of any serious kitchen and not see a copy of Larousse. A must-have for professional and home cooks alike.

David Chang

#40. You hide behind the professional persona all day; then you leave the office and hide behind the drink.

Caroline Knapp

#41. My brother says that I was writing songs about fate while he was off playing soccer. Now I tell him he's 33 and being a professional while I'm playing soccer with my friends. Ha!

Alanis Morissette

#42. The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming out in each individual work.

Steven Pressfield

#43. My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency,

Shirley Chisholm

#44. Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.

John Boyle O'Reilly

#45. Women have more inner power for creation, starting from family and home and ending with professional activity and politics.

Dalia Grybauskaite

#46. You know, if Nicole Kidman was a rock star, she'd be alot more professional than me, I'm sorry.

Courtney Love

#47. A man who lives apart, not to others but alone, is exposed to obvious psychological dangers. In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting; it is a matter of experience, of professional expertise, it is a facility most of us can acquire.

John Le Carre

#48. I was very pleased with the entire selection process. The manner in which it was conducted included all parts of United States' basketball, from the professional level to the colleges and high schools. Everyone was considered.

Mike Krzyzewski

#49. My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.

Bill De Blasio

#50. Social media is like a virtual handshake when used by a professional advisor.

Peter Bowman

#51. A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

Richard Bach

#52. I don't know how to bowl."
"Right, that's a problem, since this place really screams 'professional bowling,'" Silas snips back, rolling his eyes.

Jackson Pearce

#53. I'm not a professional comedian. Nobody comes to my comedy shows. That's just a little hobby.

David Rees

#54. I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.

Martin Yan

#55. Still nobody knows better than those who preach that preaching is an art in which a studied, professional sinner tells the less studied sinners how they ought to believe, behave, and serve.

Calvin Miller

#56. And the old horror of being a professional writer, and the usual stench of words that goes with it, is begining to drive me out of my seat. (Buddy)

J.D. Salinger

#57. So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#58. I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.

Tana French

#59. I never knew what top golf was like until I turned professional. Then it was too late.

Steve Melnyk

#60. In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first.

Garson Kanin

#61. We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

Felix Frankfurter

#62. One of the laws of the professional jungle is that every dog has their day. Everyone gets a shot at the top and at some point someone else gets their turn.

Carla Harris

#63. The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.

Harold Geneen

#64. I have a special feeling for Blue Hills CC, where I won perhaps the most important tournament of my life when I was 14 - the Kansas City Match Play Championship. It gave me a dream of becoming a professional golfer.

Tom Watson

#65. I was a judo athlete, while taking modeling as my side job, before I eventually quit my professional sports career over a knee injury.

Joe Taslim

#66. Among the seventy-three teachers who responded, scores ranged from 50 to 96! Just as Starch and Elliott found a century earlier, scores varied by more than forty-five percentage points - and that's among teachers who received specific professional development in writing assessment!

Thomas Guskey

#67. Our vocation and professional work is not a second class activity, something we do just to put food on the table. It is the high calling for which we were originally created. The way we serve a Creator God is by being creative with the talents and gifts He has given us.

Nancy Pearcey

#68. Be very professional because it will get you a lot further. You have to treat people with the same respect whether they're signing your checks or cleaning up after you.

Raven-Symone

#69. When I started in professional baseball, I had what you might call a rude awakening. See this scar right next to my left ear? That's where the pitcher hit me the very first time I came to bat as a pro. I was out cold for about 10 minutes.

Billy Herman

#70. Playing from deep grass is a fact of life in professional golf.

Ernie Els

#71. I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself.

Jewel Staite

#72. I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

Randy Schekman

#73. Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

Oliver North

#74. The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.

Richard Burton

#75. I handle my emotional pain by changing my mind-set. Exercising can exorcise emotional pain. Prayer and meditation. Visualization. Being able to talk about it by opening yourself to loved ones or a professional.

Regina Taylor

#76. professional is one who understands how their industry works.

Angela Megasko

#77. It used to bug me that I couldn't even afford to take my family for a proper holiday. I didn't have any professional knowledge, and getting a photographer's job in a magazine was out of the question. So, armed with a Pentax K1000, I started going to various maidans of Mumbai, looking for subjects.

Boman Irani

#78. To judge professional be professional

Ganeshsaidheeraj

#79. Never try to keep it professional, keep it smutty, write with bodily fluids on sandpaper, and damn the men with clipboards in white suits, the literary bean-counters, the prose police.

Peter Selgin

#80. In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.

Leigh Steinberg

#81. Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work despite rain or snow or dark of night and slugs it out day after day.

Steven Pressfield

#82. The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful.

Karolina Kurkova

#83. I have learned how I work best, and that is something that, if you're going to be a professional writer, you should be noticing: under what circumstances you work at your best, and to not get yourself cornered into writing in a way that doesn't let you do your best.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#84. I'm well known because I do music at a professional level, and a certain magnitude.

Kid Cudi

#85. There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.

Sheila Heti

#86. I think your personal evolution runs hand in hand with your professional evolution. Performance and the person you are kind of grow simultaneously.

Heath Ledger

#87. Today was the worst day of his professional life, but tomorrow would be better.

John Grisham

#88. American voters tend to make their decisions based on a variety of vectors. Professional political satirists employ rather more scientific criteria. Namely: who will provide us with better material over the next four years?

Christopher Buckley

#89. I know that if I went to other studios, like in Vancouver, that those are set up to be as professional and as true, so it's just a different flavour, it's a different sound, but I think both have their place.

Billy Sherwood

#90. I've been asked often what is the difference between an amateur and a professional artist, and I will tell you. An amateur artist is one who works all week at something else so he can paint on Saturday and Sunday. A professional artist is one whose wife works so he can paint all the time.

Ben Shahn

#91. For a professional writer in the Soviet Union, it works this way. First, you have to have something to say - that's the main thing. Second, it's a matter of who publishes you. If your book has real stuff in it, readers will ferret it out, even in a Siberian journal.

Anatoly Rybakov

#92. I've always wanted to be a professional golfer and I'm glad that came true.

Karrie Webb

#93. 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.

Roald Dahl

#94. I would never advocate the use of dope because, you know, I'm not a professional athlete and I don't have access to the good stuff.

Greg Proops

#95. Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.

Barry McGuigan

#96. She was not light, but she was not as heavy as she should be. Her bones should be made of iron, for what else was fit to support her bravado? It would shame generals. Emperors. Professional pirates.

Meredith Duran

#97. I've always said that if I could do anything in the world, I would be a professional golfer.

Dane DeHaan

#98. You see a lot over 30 years and you try to be professional and responsible. A lot of the interviews you do can be very haunting.

Wolf Blitzer

#99. It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one - not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses - ever makes it alone.

Malcolm Gladwell

#100. As a student, you have to learn what areas are most difficult for you ... Those are the same difficulties you'll have as a professional artist, so the school is the place to notice them and to find a way to make them work.

Tania Bruguera