Professionalism Quotes

“Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? “I’m not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. I’m just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and I’d like to cut your chest open.” The crowd cheers.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well.”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“[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, Everything They Had: Sports Writing

“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, The War of Art

“I wasn't pretty, but as my mother once said, prettiness wasn't my profession.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase

“I am playful in words but sincere in action.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“If you're good at something, never let your friends know, because for their purpose,they will make you do it for free ”
― Himmilicious

“He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer inquisitively into his guest's eyes for signs of boredom or mockery, being intelligent enough to be unable fully to believe in his own claims to significance. He might, in a past life, have been a particularly canny and sharp-tongued royal advisor.”
― Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

“In business 'professionalism' is not a tactic but a moral value.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“What is more, sir," his lordship went on, "I believe I have a good idea of what you mean by 'professionalism.' It appears to mean getting one's way by cheating and manipulating. It appears to mean serving the dictates of greed and advantage rather than those of goodness and the desire to see justice prevail in the world. If that is the 'professionalism' you refer to, sir, I don't care much for it and have no wish to acquire it.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

“I was bitterly resentful, but somehow greatly relieved. And I respected him enormously for his clarity of thought, his obvious caring, and his unwillingness to equivocate in delivering bad news.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“Leadership is never an avenue to be self-serving but,a platform to render great service to people.”
― Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

“A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you're an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you're probably under a restraining order.”
― Ryan Lilly

“Good luck belongs to those who know how and are not afraid." John Hay to President Theodore Roosevelt”
― John Taliaferro, All the Great Prizes : The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt

“Be not professional in what you do, rather be excellent. Excellence has life in it - it has colors in it - it has sweetness in it - whereas professionalism is a dead corpse exuding the disgusting smell of obedience. Excellence requires no obedience, yet in excellence you act your best, without all the life-sucking efforts.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Time to Save Medicine

“These are icebreakers. You’re not supposed to break the ice, you’re just supposed to coat your voice with as many layers of confidence as possible so that they don’t hear your voice shake when it’s your turn to speak. Idiot.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“[I]f Modi is toast, it will in one sense be a tremendous pity. In his way, he represents a third generation in cricket's governance. For a hundred years and more, cricket was run by administrators, who essentially maintained the game without going out of their way to develop it. More recently it has been run by managers, with just an ounce or two of strategic thought. Modi was neither; he was instead a genuine entrepreneur. He has as much feeling for cricket as Madonna has for madrigals, but perhaps, because he came from outside cricket's traditional bureaucratic circles, he brought a vision and a common touch unexampled since Kerry Packer.”
― Gideon Haigh

“We're not going to get carried away. Well, we are going to for the next couple of days!”
― Paul Collingwood

“Everything said will be true from the perceived reality of the source. Even if it is opposite to what I think, it could be true in some context. I can stay calm and not lose balance and avoid judgment while sharing my thought which comes from my perceived reality.”
― Ramesh Sood, Untitled Life’s Random Lessons : A tapestry of anecdotes on life, mindset, leadership, communication and relationships.

“As professionals, we must learn to look across industries to gather insights and identify trends before they impact us.”
― Jen Alvares

“Life is a journey; make it luxurious.”
― Lester B

“Norris was particularly exasperated by a report that loosely blamed a man's death on wood alcohol. The document stated that the victim had been drinking heavily in the hours before his collapse. He'd also been stricken with sudden blindness (a classic symptom of wood alcohol poisoning) several hours before lapsing into a coma. The death certificate listed wood alcohol poisoning as a 'more than probable' cause.
But 'more than probable' was hardly a professional opinion, Norris said. [...]”
― Deborah Blum, The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

“Never risk being face for the sake of being professional.”
― Julieanne O'Connor

“Your appearance plays a significant role in how you're perceived. When you enter a room, your appearance should communicate confidence and professionalism.”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive

“It is against the background of such warfare [between medical professionals] that we must evaluate modern medical ethics. There has been much criticism of the code - which makes doctors, whatever their disagreement, present a united front to the public, and it has often been pointed out that by frowning on publicity the medical associations make it difficult for newspapers to find any one who will sponsor the truth about public health, but we must remember that the alternative is continual internecine warfare which makes an ignorant public the judge of matters beyond its comprehension.”
― James Thomas Flexner, Doctors on Horseback: Pioneers of American Medicine

“Professionalism is not just about making money.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Tears were a distraction in the pursuit of truth.”
― Elle Jauffret, Threads of Deception: A Suddenly French Mystery

“Branding is spraying a business the perfume of professionalism.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, Your Clients and You

“The strongest steel can also be at its weakest when it reaches its breaking point, yet still holds on to do its job at times–inhuman.”
― Kamini Arichandran

“Let us pretend to be professional, you and I, for hell and the gentry await.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup