Quotes About Professionalism At Work

#1. 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

#2. Modeling gave me a strong discipline of professionalism where you work very long hours.

Jaime King

#3. I believe that music is God's voice.

Brian Wilson

#4. When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.

Wanda Koop

#5. I wondered if we were put on this earth only to destroy every beautiful thing, to make chaos. Or were we meant to overcome this? Did bad things happen so that goodness could show through in people?

Silas House

#6. In some ways, TV is more regimented, but there is a level of professionalism that's very high, among the people that work in television.

Zak Penn

#7. I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.

Brittany Murphy

#8. If the film is nominated for awards, and even if it wins them, it doesn't make the movie any better, just as if it's ignored that doesn't make the movie any worse.

Quentin Tarantino

#9. I am proud of my achievements, my work ethic, and the way I live my life. The PGA Tour not only treated me unfairly, but displayed a lack of professionalism that should concern every professional golfer and fan of the game.

Vijay Singh

#10. [On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'"
(One On 1, interview with Budd Mishkin; NY1, March 25, 2007.)

David Halberstam

#11. The TSA holds its screener work force to the highest standards of security and professionalism, .. and will continue to focus on these principles as critical elements in the ongoing effort to provide the traveling public with world-class security and world-class customer service.

Robert Johnson

#12. That's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else's expense. Write a paper and see the world! I'm Jane Austen - fly me!

David Lodge

#13. Nothing could be more important than that the work of a soldier is well done. No tools will make a man a skilled workmen, or master of defense, or be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them and has never bestowed any attention on them.

Plato

#14. 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

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

Himmilicious

#16. 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

#17. I always try to find something I admire about every character I play.

Ben Kingsley

#18. Through imagination, we can visit the past, contemplate the present, and anticipate the future. We can also do something else of profound and unique significance. We can create.

Ken Robinson

#19. 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

#20. 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

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

Norman Mailer

#22. 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

#23. California is responsible for selling, trading and distributing large amounts of shark fins that come from all over the world.

Ted Danson

#24. The stars in the heavens sing a music, if only we had ears to hear

Pythagoras

#25. I choose to live until death, not spend the time dying until death occurs.

Mattie Stepanek

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

Auliq Ice

#27. 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

#28. 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