Quotes of Professional - somelinesforyou

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

- Felix Frankfurter

“ A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it. ”

- Alistair Cooke

“ Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs. ”

- Ogden Nash

“ The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and his place in the scheme of things. ”

- Richard W. Livingston

“ There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. ”

- Georges Pompidou

“ They expect a professional presentation, so they expect to see a "professional." Dress appropriately for the occasion, but don't be one of the crowd. ”

- Wess Roberts

“ The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves. ”

- Elaine Morgan

“ All professions are conspiracies against the laity. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ I hold every man a debtor to his profession. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Professionalism is knowing how to do it, when to do it, and doing it. ”

- Frank Tyger

“ In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Professionalism: It's NOT the job you DO, It's HOW you DO the job. ”

- Unknown

“ Professionalism: It's NOT the job you DO, It's HOW you DO the job. ”

- Unknown

“ Pros are people who do jobs well even when they don't feel like it. ”

- Unknown

“ Pros are people who do jobs well even when they don't feel like it. ”

- Unknown

“ There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Through all the employments of life each neighbor abuses his brother; whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another. ”

- John Gay

“ The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. ”

- Nathaniel Borenstein

“ I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed. ”

- Frank Deford

“ I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business. ”

- Bette Davis

“ He's a complete and total psychopath. I don't mean that in the criminal sense, of course, but in a professional sense. People like that will do anything to hold on to their jobs. ”

- Liz Trotta on Dan Rather

“ Making music should not be left to the professionals. ”

- Michelle Shocked

“ The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it. ”

- Curt Rosten

“ Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth. ”

- T. J. Hoover and J. C. L. Fish

“ Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man. ”

- Ralph J. Smith

“ Nihilism is best done by professionals. ”

- Iggy Pop

“ America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. ”

- Evan Esar

“ The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance. ”

- Robert Anson Heinlein

“ American philanthropic custom owes much to leadership by business and professional people. ”

- Robert L. Payton

“ Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of LA in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers. ”

- Jay Leno
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