Professional Quotes

You don't have to be a professional to express an experienced opinion. Often times, the professionals are silent...or biased...

~ Garrett Mccoy

Blonde hair drawn into a no-nonsense bun, her new manicure the deep red of fresh blood, she’d even donned a blouse and slacks for the occasion, something Neve had forgotten Veronica owned.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

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

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

~ Harry Houdini

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

~ Edward Appleton

You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions.

~ Martin Bashir

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

~ Grace Paley

Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.

~ Brit Hume

I've never been out with any of the cast of Coronation Street. We're all very close friends so it's very much a professional attitude.

~ Richard Fleeshman

My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.

~ Dane Cook

Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times.

~ Mort Sahl

I am in the Master of Professional Writing program teaching Humor Writing, Literary and Dramatic.

~ Shelley Berman

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.

~ Toby Young

Facebook is massive in scale and scope. Twitter is a public communication forum, but if I'm following you, you're not necessarily following me. LinkedIn is, simply, a professional network.

~ Jeff Weiner

I'm getting more and more bored with professional sports, but I still watch.

~ Michael Keaton

I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.

~ Rachel Nichols

I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.

~ Seann William Scott

My grandmother is a huge Hawkeyes fan, so I, by proxy, have to be one. I'm more of a professional sports fan, and I've never been a huge college fan, but because of my grandmother, I've gotten into a lot of really good Hawkeye games. So, because I'm a good grandson, I'm a Hawkeye fan.

~ Corey Taylor

Playing professional sports, it's important to eat healthy and take care of your body. In the offseason, rest is really important to me.

~ Troy Polamalu

Professional sports are something they can't control.

~ Troy Vincent

Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

~ Ellen Ochoa

Superconductivity helped broaden my professional phase space. When I started my work, it was already known that magnetic fields could quench superconductivity. I found that the transition was not continuous, that superconductivity was initially enhanced in the presence of magnetic fields, then it would suddenly fall off.

~ Mildred S. Dresselhaus

Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel.

~ Mitch Kapor

If I wasn't a professional scientist, I'd be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers.

~ Michio Kaku

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.

~ Jim Evans

One of the gifts of 'Star Trek' is my professional work colleagues have become my lifelong friends.

~ George Takei

You can play professional lacrosse, but they make less than a teacher's salary now. I always thought about that. And it's a very difficult career, a short career, as a pro athlete.

~ Nash Grier

Credentials are critical if you want to do something professional. If you want to become a doctor or lawyer or teacher or professor, there is a credentialing process. But there are a lot of other things where it's not clear they're that important.

~ Peter Thiel

In the balance of my professional life, I've had the privilege of the working as a practicing lawyer and teacher.

~ Neil Gorsuch

If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?

~ Robert Fripp

My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence.

~ Michael J. Saylor

I don't believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional, and it is all personal.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.

~ Steve Martin

Street League Skateboarding is the premier professional skateboarding league in the world, with the biggest prize money in history.

~ Rob Dyrdek

It's important you stay professional and keep working, and I'm thankful for everything that's happened to me.

~ Dele Alli

As a former professional patient advocate, I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment, and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.

~ Sue Kelly

Athletes are used to battling. The public would never learn their names if professional athletes had not shown courage at an early age. They learn they can overcome, but sometimes this becomes a false sense of security that leads them to the edge.

~ George Vecsey

It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.

~ Caroline Wozniacki

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

~ Anthony Storr

I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.

~ Kate Chopin