Quotes About Professionalism

#1. Things hurt.. accepted. Shedding tears.. accepted. Sadness.. accepted.. But to quit and make your work suffer.. not at all accepted..

Himmilicious

#2. The combination of professionalism and technology may also result in narrow-minded specialization more suited to a debating society than to an organization whose task it is to cope with, and indeed live in, the dangerous and uncertain environment of war.

Martin Van Creveld

#3. Her professionalism aside, Nabisase's victory was rigged by an endomorph and a goblin standing in crabgrass, and she would never know it. There are so many lives decided this way.

Victor LaValle

#4. I do feel as if my own music as quite flawed, and it's that frailty or lack of technical proficiency that goes hand-in-hand with some sort of professionalism.

Justin Broadrick

#5. Working with Michael Chiklis is a lesson in professionalism and staying focused. That's what Chiklis brings all day long.

Sean Faris

#6. What would happen if you allowed a bug to slip through a module, and it cost
your company $10,000? The nonprofessional would shrug his shoulders, say
"stuff happens," and start writing the next module. The professional would
write the company a check for $10,000!

Robert C. Martin

#7. It is good for a professional to be reminded that his professionalism is only a husk, that the real person must remain an amateur, a lover of the work.

May Sarton

#8. The author defines professionalism as exemplified by his subjects in their mutual unwillingness to take expected opposition personally. They would not allow grudges to get in the way of more important business.

Chris Matthews

#9. Without professionalism I'd be an amateur, and the clients I want don't hire amateurs.

David Airey

#10. Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge; I can't think about filling them.

Randy West

#11. My view of the charity world is that compared with business, there is too much talk, way too many meetings and expert panels and blue-ribbon commissions, and not enough action. Or as an Australian friend of mine once opined: "Sometimes you just have to have a go and get on with it, mate!".

John Wood

#12. To march over dead man, to hear without concern the groans of the wounded, I say few men can stand such scenes unless steeled by habit or fortified by military pride.

Nathanael Greene

#13. I'm just saying, as someone who occasionally rigs fights, I'm offended by the lack of professionalism.

Patrick Weekes

#14. For your own professionalism, reputation & appearance, it really is ok to NOT post every #video, picture, event or show on social media.
On the contrary, holding back, waiting or not posting certain things all together can help much more than hurt.

Loren Weisman

#15. Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.

Neil Young

#16. People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my basement and gaze out onto a single window that shows me a cement wall. This is a profession, and it's important to have professionalism about the writing.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#17. Whether or not your values are operational is crucially determined by whether or not there are consequences for noncompliance.

David Maister

#18. Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields

Bjarne Stroustrup

#19. Everybody else specializes. Daddy knows everything, and he puts the pieces together.

Robert A. Heinlein

#20. We can work together but we can't just work with each other.

Auliq Ice

#21. What worries me is the professionalism of everything.

Irvine Welsh

#22. Until you take your profession as passion, each and every activity looks as a headache

Vignesh S.V

#23. One man can make another's life so much better.

Janet Morris

#24. That professionalism comes from what I've watched people do on the set. I'm just trying to be as respectful to the environment, as they have been. I think I still act like a kid. I just try to be as professional as I can.

Haley Joel Osment

#25. If you learn how to master yourself, you stand a good chance of learning how to master your job.

Auliq Ice

#26. It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in maintaining his standards for performance and professionalism.

Jon Landau

#27. The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy.

Bob Greene

#28. What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism.

Rowan Williams

#29. Professionalism in law has brought us the O.J. Simpson case in lieu of justice.

Bill James

#30. I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism.

Henry Thomas

#31. because if you want someone badly enough, morals (and certainly professionalism) don't come into it. You'll do anything to have them. He just doesn't want me badly enough.

Paula Hawkins

#32. We're not going to get carried away. Well, we are going to for the next couple of days!

Paul Collingwood

#33. People always think it's unprofessional if your appearance doesn't match your biological sex. What does my gender have to do with my skills?

Marcel Weyers

#34. Gossip: a weed watered by wayward words.

Soul Dancer

#35. It is professional snobbery that refrains training rookies.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#36. My brothers and sisters prayers and faith in God does not negate professionalism and dignity of labour.

Sunday Adelaja

#37. You can be an expert on anything if you just use logic.

Adam Carolla

#38. A life that most people will never even know about can be yours in this study, but only if you approach it with equanimity, poise, grace, balance, and professionalism.

Frederick Lenz

#39. Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed.

John Updike

#40. I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you're a writer it's your job to manufacture books as opposed to writing them and to go to festivals and spend your life emotionally invested in reviews or the awards. You have to shrink your universe in a way. To me, it's the opposite.

Arundhati Roy

#41. Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors.

Yochai Benkler

#42. Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

Jeanette Winterson

#43. When did you feel most fulfilled? When did you impress yourself, or otherwise feel most proud of yourself?

David Maister

#44. Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-oriented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed ... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

Sheryl Sandberg

#45. Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.

Karan Johar

#46. When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite, believing that these critics would be so charmed by my professionalism that they would see the error of their misogynist ways and swiftly run out to read a bell hooks book. Ha!

Jessica Valenti

#47. I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#48. Gerald Green is a fine Coach and Trainer, I have every confidence in his professionalism.

Dottie Walters

#49. The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.

Steven Pressfield

#50. Are you considering the other person you're calling when you call? Do you ask if it is a good time? If not, why not?

Loren Weisman

#51. There's nothing glorious about being a professional ... Professionalism probably comes down to being able to work on a bad day.

Norman Mailer

#52. I think of these desert years of mine, not of my choosing. Maybe if it were all smooth and comfortable, if my pride and professionalism were defining life for me, God's steel-quiet, penetrating word would have been lost in the babble and sheen of success.

Luci Shaw

#53. If he could be hard on kings and cabinets, he was invariably kind to his colleagues.

John Taliaferro

#54. It was a small of her back and her face that got so tired. Their (her retail employer's) mono was supposed to be, 'Keep on your toes and smile.' Once she was out of the store she had to frown a long time to get her face natural again. Even her ears were tired.

Carson McCullers

#55. There are three qualities that make someone a true professional. These are the ability to work unsupervised, the ability to certify the completion of a job or task and, finally, the ability to behave with integrity at all times.

Subroto Bagchi

#56. Jesus gave us a model for the work of the church at the Last Supper. While his disciples kept proposing more organization - Hey, let's elect officers, establish hierarchy, set standards of professionalism - Jesus quietly picked up a towel and basin of water and began to wash their feet.

Philip Yancey

#57. If you're good at something, never let your friends know, because for their purpose,they will make you do it for free

Himmilicious

#58. From the War for Independence to today in Iraq and Afghanistan, I am inspired by the courage, professionalism and patriotism of our men and women in uniform.

Tim Ryan

#59. Professionalism is like love: it is made up of the constant flow of little bits of proof that testify to devotion and care. Everything else is pretension or incompetence.

Tomislav Sola

#60. Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.

Paul Weyrich

#61. My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone.

Jonny Wilkinson

#62. ...practicing or teaching business administration can, inshallah, essentially become a profession that is full of righteous acts on the part of the believer if a person follows the rights, commands, and limits established in Islam.

Mohammad Rahman

#63. When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.

Tim Berners-Lee

#64. Practicing your craft in expert fashion is noble, honorable and satisfying. And I'll generally take a standup mercenary who takes pride in his professionalism over an artist any day.

Anthony Bourdain

#65. The scariest, ugliest stories about in-home nursing usually are the result of nurses demonstrating a lack of professionalism, bad morals or a disregard for the child for whom they are providing care.

Charisse Montgomery

#66. It is the height of professionalism to be able to make an ordinary piece of music sound good. When playing routine melodic studies the player must treat them as if they are musical value.

Howard Snell

#67. Always choose the most difficult way, there you will not meet competitors.

Charles De Gaulle

#68. Literacy isn't just about reading, writing, and comprehension. It's about culture, professionalism, and social outlook.

Taylor Ellwood

#69. Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind.

Kedar Joshi

#70. These models - these mannequins - are perfectly professional, and he hates all professionalism. He is too young to have learned to hate himself yet, but that seed is already there; given time, it will grow, and bear bitter fruit. He

Stephen King

#71. Confidence is the immaterial residue of material actions. Confidence is the public face of competence.

Ron Suskind

#72. It seems shelving is an art, like everything else. I decide to do it exceptionally well.

Deborah Meyler

#73. Our all-volunteer force continues to prove itself with a great level of professionalism, personal commitment and a technical competence that is quite remarkable.

Geoff Davis

#74. Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian.

C.S. Lewis

#75. One-year enlistment had proven problematic since the troops were scheduled to rotate out of the army just when they had begun to internalize the discipline of military service and became reliable soldiers.

Joseph J. Ellis

#76. Professionals never guess - they make it their business to know their business.

Michelle Moore

#77. Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.

Chili Davis

#78. Those were times when brave men who knew and loved their profession couldn't be overlooked.

Thomas Hughes

#79. The professionalism of technique and flash of dexterity are more comfortable to be around than raw creative power, hence our society generally rewards virtuoso performers more highly than it rewards original creators.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#80. Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt

John Taliaferro

#81. Professionalism is always the enemy of authentic gospel leadership. Leaders

Tim Chester

#82. Business success depends on good business leadership, and that means hiring and partnering with only the people your business really needs. These are the smart, hardworking people who know your industry as well as, or even better than, you.

Kevin J. Donaldson

#83. It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

Don DeLillo

#84. Over 95% of the designers who have ever lived are alive today. Together, we have the power to define what professionalism in the communications industry will be about: helping increase market share or helping repair the World.

David Berman

#85. It's not doing what is right that's hard for a President. It's knowing what is right.

Lyndon Johnson

#86. Seeing Ed Belfour have expectations higher than anyone else of him shows the kind of competitor he is. I would love to incorporate a high level of professionalism into my game.

Marty Turco

#87. Once you realize that you're in something that you've always wanted and you don't want to lose it, you behave differently. And that means the integrity, the professionalism, and knowing what's right from wrong and still making choices that you probably wouldn't have made.

Paul Anka

#88. It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by the professionalism and generosity of everyone I have had the good fortune to work with at this awesome company.

Steven Sinofsky

#89. Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.

Bill James

#90. The media could not be policed from without and had to be policed from within.

Tom Clancy

#91. I think it's best to keep the controversy on the pages and not in our relationships.

Kayla Curry

#92. Ordinary professionals focus on giving worthless advises; extra-ordinary professionals focus on giving results.

Ashish Patel

#93. The best defense against partisanship is expertise.

Roger Angell

#94. The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.

Steven Pressfield

#95. Skills or professionalism is another factor of growth

Sunday Adelaja

#96. What I call Professionalism someone else might call the Artist's Code or the Warrior's Way. It's an attitude of egolessness and service. The Knights of the Round Table were chaste and self-effacing. Yet they dueled dragons.

Steven Pressfield

#97. Making yourself a corporation (or just thinking of yourself in that way) reinforces the idea of professionalism because it separates the artist-doing-the-work from the will-and-consciousness-running-the-show.

Steven Pressfield

#98. If you were a real professional, you'd build a bridge and get over it.

Jacqueline E. Smith

#99. One of the cleverest and most insidious twists in the whole sorry tale is the way women are double bound by a gender-biased definition of professionalism and the threat of being labeled "whining.

Laura Bates

#100. I wasn't pretty, but as my mother once said, prettiness wasn't my profession.

Jonathan Stroud