Top 100 Professionally Quotes
#1. You have a right to be treated professionally at work, and it's your supervisor's job to make sure all their employees can perform their duties comfortably and safely.
Mallory Ortberg
#2. We certainly will prepare consciously and professionally, but still you cannot predict the future.
Laurent Jalabert
#3. I'm so lucky to have such a great family. I respect them so much professionally, and they've been unconditionally supportive in the choices that I've made. It's been very good having them on my side.
Jack Huston
#4. Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's not the reason I read. I read for my own emotional and mental health. If I stopped reading, I'd probably just die.
Patrick Rothfuss
#5. From a young age, I understood the idea of balanced flavor - the reason you put ketchup on a hamburger. I was that kid who wouldn't eat something if there was something missing. I never really understood it until I began cooking professionally, balancing acids, sweets, spicy flavors and fat.
Michael Mina
#6. In spite of being professionally gregarious, in my nonpaid hours I'm a bit of a hermit. After being around a crew of fifty people for twelve hours a day on a film set, I really like my alone time, and as always, I abhor small talk.
Rob Lowe
#7. I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it.
Steve Buscemi
#8. 'Via Dolorosa' is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I'll never act again.
David Hare
#9. Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
Olivia Newton-John
#10. You have to be savvy to be a celebrity. You have to create a personality and shove that out. It just seems fatuous to me. Professionally, it's a good idea. But I can't do it.
Rupert Graves
#11. I had a lot of coaching for the movie and no, I have never sung professionally before.
Christopher Atkins
#12. When I work, I work very hard. When I don't work, I have to do something where my endeavor can totally take me off what I do professionally, like sailing. It takes all your attention.
Helmut Jahn
#13. Professionally, I don't necessarily have to adhere to a certain dress code. However, I think that comfort is crucial. Otherwise, you won't be able to have fun and express yourself.
Jared Leto
#14. I like big casts. The experience of working together, that human contact - those are my roots, professionally.
Chris Noth
#15. I've been through a lot, both personally and professionally, and the album that I started to record two and a half years ago is a different album from the one that exists today. I even changed the album title. First it was 'All I Want is Everything,' and now it's 'Jumping Trains.'
Jojo
#16. I performed and sang at school but as a child it was never anything I was interested in doing professionally.
Chris Pine
#17. The truth is that we don't need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what's better than being roundly liked is being fully known - an impossibility both professionally and personally if you're so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.
Jessica Valenti
#18. A person is only as fair to oneself as the people often hanging around him or her, here and there, truly care towards ones who are not personally or professionally related to them anywhere.
Anuj
#19. Admiral Naismith," said Quinn stiffly, "is not a dwarf. He's nearly five feet tall. And I am not 'in love' with him, you low-minded twit; I merely admire his brilliance. Professionally.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#20. A profession is a body of men who voluntarily measure their work by a higher standard than their clients demand. To be professionally acceptable, a policy must be sound as well as salable. Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.
Aldo Leopold
#21. My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. Ive been doing it for seven years professionally.
Wyclef Jean
#22. Professionally, the first time I sang was on 'Alice Upside Down.' It was the first movie that I did, and I had this little mini singing part.
Bridgit Mendler
#23. I'm glad that my journey has been gradual and slow, instead of instant, because that allowed me to grow and discover who I am before I was thrown into the world. I'm happy I didn't start acting professionally as a kid/teen; looking back, I don't think I was ready.
Jade Hassoune
#24. Behave professionally and let any bad feelings out of life!
Enock Maregesi
#25. My acting started with musicals in elementary school, so singing is something I've always done, never done professionally - so you're not going to find me on "The Voice" or anything - but it is something that I have a lot of fun doing, and can do well enough to keep up with people in shows.
Clayton Snyder
#26. I'd got a part in the original cast of 'Cats' when I was 16, and that kept me going for a while. After that, I felt lost, both personally and professionally - I was trying to find a way not to be seen only as this bubbly, bright, vivacious person. It felt like I'd lost the freedom to make mistakes.
Bonnie Langford
#27. I don't think I've entirely had that moment yet! There's still so much more to be done. Professionally I am so grateful to step out into the television world with the remarkable opportunity of being on Empire.
Grace Gealey
#28. Singing has always been something that I've loved to do, but I never thought about doing, professionally. I always felt more drawn to acting.
Anne Hathaway
#29. We are a company that lives and breathes a philosophy that's centered on not only making sound business decisions but also personally and professionally finding ways to contribute to the well being of society. We are also a company that understands community.
Magic Johnson
#30. I had always been interested in screenwriting, ever since I could write things down as a child. Obviously, I started as an actor, professionally, but screenwriting was always something that I had a great interest in.
John Francis Daley
#31. It is men's worst fear, personally and professionally, that women will pin the sin on them.
Maureen Dowd
#32. While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent.
Charlene Tilton
#33. I've been working professionally as an actor since I was 20. That's going to be 25 years soon. So, that's a veteran. That's a big-time veteran. I've had some great successes, and I've had some not-successes.
Michael Imperioli
#34. It was one of the great pleasures of the age, to be safe and warm and dry - showered, deodorized, professionally clothed in espadrilles and a linen jacket, latte steaming up the radio display, taking in the world's troubles three minutes at a time. That was luxury.
Jess Row
#35. It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.
Peter Drucker
#36. I think I am a writer, but professionally I feel drawn to and suited for directing.
Mary Stuart Masterson
#37. At some point in life's journey, professionally and personally, we have to be able to trust our preparation.
Tony Dungy
#38. One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old.
Ellen Gilchrist
#39. Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman - her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.
Maiara Walsh
#40. I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally.
Dave Matthews
#41. Things get complicated at times, so there are certainly moments when you wish your life were different. That's true for everybody, not just people in our profession. But there's nothing I feel like I gave up professionally. I'm absolutely doing what I enjoy.
Laura Linney
#42. There's only one thing that regularly keeps me up at night. Working with the greatest people in the world and knowing that they are counting on me to build a company that endures - a company where they can grow professionally. A company where they can build world-class products and be proud to work.
David Ulevitch
#43. Each one of us has a unique spot in this harmonious and self-sustaining universe. If our desire is to succeed and enjoy life to the full both personally, professionally, and business wise, we should spot our unique place in the universe.
Assegid Habtewold
#44. I've always been a man of commitment whether it was academically or professionally. But spiritually I wasn't committed. I was talking the talk and I just wanted to make that commitment. It also made the commitment in other areas of my life stronger.
Avery Johnson
#45. I myself started out quite young; when you're working, professionally, even if you are in your teens, you just want to be treated the same as everybody else. You just want people to see you as an actor and not as a kid.
Aidan Gillen
#46. I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.
Nancy Pelosi
#47. Aim to be the best in the world at whatever you do professionally. Even if you miss, you'll probably end up in a pretty good place.
Sam Altman
#48. 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.
Dianna Agron
#49. When I want a broad-minded opinion for general enlightenment, distinct from special advice, I never go to a man who deals in the subject professionally. So I like the parson's opinion on law, the lawyer's on doctoring, the doctor's on business, and my business-man's ... on morals.
Thomas Hardy
#50. My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.
Jim Lehrer
#51. After high school, I went to VCU and got a B.F.A. in theater. I got to do a bunch of stuff professionally throughout college. I actually got my SAG card in college.
Zachary Knighton
#52. If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.
Jack Falahee
#53. He wanted to believe it was of the Agency's unwritten protocol; the less you know about your associates, the better it is for both of you professionally
Derek Haas
#54. I've always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise.
Rufus Sewell
#55. Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.
Anthony Edwards
#56. As a leader, there are professional skills and traits that are expected. It's your job to identify and exhibit them so you can be challenged and judged professionally as a leader - and not as a woman.
Liz Weber
#57. I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.
Dan Jenkins
#58. Maybe it's because I look into the future professionally, but I see great possibilities for both humanity and our planet. I don't believe the thriving of one has to come at the expense of the other, and I'm deeply concerned to find out whether other people do think that.
Karl Schroeder
#59. I grew up a Michael Jordan fan; that was my first idol. But my true sports idol was Deion Sanders: he was the person I always wanted to be. I wanted to play two sports professionally, which would never happen, but to me, that was every kid's dream.
Tim Howard
#60. Personally, my twenties were a complete waste of time. Professionally, I hope some good came of them.
Sharon Horgan
#61. A founder's perspective is unique.
Entrepreneurs are builders, and the lens through which I view Starbucks and the marketplace is somewhat different from what it would be if I were a professionally schooled manager.
Howard Schultz
#62. So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically.
John Ratzenberger
#63. Between 18 and 26 I acted professionally, on the stage and a little bit on television. Acting is okay, but it's quite pressurized. Then I went to England - I wanted to reinvent myself.
Jane Campion
#64. Because investors are not usually penalized for adhering to conventional practices, doing so is the less professionally risky strategy, even though it virtually guarantees against superior performance.
Seth Klarman
#65. I have a harder time finding somebody. The problem is we were growing professionally during the years most people were concentrating on being a person.
Karen Carpenter
#66. School fools a lot of people. Professionally, one thing is not the most that one person can be.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#67. I want to talk to him. I want to pick his brain. I'm curious and professionally thirsty, and maybe I want to accidentally press myself against him one more time. So I can smell him. No, definitely not that last.
Katy Evans
#68. Remember, it's very simple to have an oven tested professionally, and it only takes about five minutes.
Delia Smith
#69. It's not okay to just make up false things about someone, especially in their personal life. Professionally, fine! Scrutinize me all you want. I know that I can't please everyone, but personally, let's just leave it alone. It's going too far.
Keri Hilson
#70. Cooking was something women did to nourish and nurture their families, whereas for men it was largely something they did professionally to gain money and status.
Padma Lakshmi
#71. Professionally, what comes first is representing the artist.Whether they're alive or dead.
Larry Gagosian
#72. I've always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done privately as a person, professionally and academically.
Chelsea Clinton
#73. Music is my favorite thing in the world. I grew up completely around it and I think it's one of the most important things to me, but at this point I can't see myself doing that professionally. Luckily, for the most part, I don't feel pressured.
Riley Keough
#74. To be embraced by Hollywood when I'd been acting professionally for almost 50 years seemed unbelievable. I've been so welcomed in such a warm, generous way - it seemed crazy not to take advantage of it. I hope for another 20 years where I can still keep going.
Jacki Weaver
#75. Professionally, I decided to commit a lot
of my time to California because there
wasn't a whole lot happening for me in New York.
Alice Barrett
#77. I don't think I've ever done anything professionally.
Al Jourgensen
#78. People have more options to watch quality, professionally produced video than ever before, and they are using those options - whether it is DVR, Netflix or Hulu.
Steve Burke
#79. I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds.
Steven Morrissey
#80. I see myself at a certain age as not being able to play the kind of parts that would keep me stimulated, and I can't imagine my life ending professionally the moment that I've got to go to the plastic surgeon and have my face rearranged.
Elisabeth Shue
#81. I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn't have any time to work things out. It's been pretty scary at times.
Emma Watson
#82. I have been working professionally in the entertainment industry since I was six.
Blake McIver Ewing
#83. I've been driving race cars professionally for a while: 200 mph types of things.
Antonio Sabato Jr.
#84. Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college, and I guess I agreed with them, or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got.
Joe Namath
#85. I had managers approaching me in high school asking me if I wanted to act professionally, but to me, having to miss school to do that meant missing time with my friends, which was completely unacceptable.
Chris Lowell
#86. I left rock and roll professionally at about 49. That's too long as far as I'm concerned. Some people can do it; it depends on what you were.
Grace Slick
#87. I knew one person in the entire city of New York. Looking back, I should have been terrified, but I was just excited to living in New York on my own and acting professionally.
Rachel Boston
#88. Winning an NBA championship is the biggest thing that can happen professionally because it's the top. But representing your country-with more than 30 million people cheering for you and then seeing you up there on the podium-it's hard to find any more words to put on that.
Manu Ginobili
#89. Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history ... But when I started writing professionally, it was mostly learn as you go.
David B. Coe
#90. I was always going to make music, but I cleaned up my act a lot just to be a good dad and a husband. That sort of changed my career professionally, too.
Randy Houser
#91. Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to connected because it connects you to architecture, it connects you to painting, it connects you to writers, to actors. It connects you to really all of the arts.
Wim Wenders
#92. When I talk about "creative living" here, please understand that I am not necessarily talking about pursuing a life that is professionally or exclusively devoted to the arts.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#93. I feel like it does get busier professionally, but personally, I think I choose how I spend my time more carefully, so it balances it out in that sense.
Danielle Panabaker
#94. Over fifteen years of studying the American Right professionally - especially in their communications with each other, in their own memos and media since the 1950s - I have yet to find a truly novel development, a real innovation, in far-right 'thought.'
Rick Perlstein
#95. I've had such a satisfying life professionally and personally. I hope my tombstone says, 'Never boring.'
Alan Dershowitz
#96. Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it's pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of winning is likely to be higher.
Steven Rattner
#97. Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.
Valerie Bertinelli
#98. One trouble: to be a professional anything in the United States is to think of oneself as an expert and one's ideas as semisacred, and to treat others in a certain way - professionally.
Marge Piercy
#99. Professionally I felt like a horse running in the wrong race.
Susan Strasberg
#100. When I used to wrestle professionally, I preferred being the bad guy known as 'The Heel;' you would get to 'work the crowd,' getting them to hate you and want to see you lose, while the good guy 'Babyface' would walk in, smile and shake hands with a few kids, and his acting job was done.
Conan Stevens
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