Professional Quotes

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

I hit the ground running, without a lot of training, so I had to do whatever I could do to survive as a professional, and if that meant being that character 24/7 and acting out, I was going to do that. I lived those characters, I brought them home with me.

That is what I always tell service clubs: If you hear of somebody who is very young and talented, pick them up and give them that little assistance to make sure that they get to the professional stage.

It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.

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.

All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense.

For me, skateboarding is a lifestyle. I really don't know anything different. My life revolves around skating. If I wasn't a professional skateboarder, I'd still be skating every day.

'Rent' was my first professional job, ever.

Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.

I love doing voiceover work. I started doing voiceover work when I had just dropped out of school, and the first few professional jobs I got were plays, but then I started making money doing voice-overs.

So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.

Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.

I know I'm a good professional, I know that no one's harder on me than myself and that's never going to change, under any circumstances.

Well, first of all, they're all about the music and all I care about in my professional career is the music.

At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.

I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I would sign on for a year with a view to becoming a professional.

Even the small amount of infamy I have makes me uncomfortable - on a personal level and on a professional level.

Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.

I'd like to own my own garage and my own fishery. I'd also like to be a professional fisherman. But I'll take whatever happens.

A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.

You can draw Family Guy when you're 10 years old. You don't have to get any better than that to become a professional cartoonist. The standards are extremely low.

I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did.

My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

I am not a professional politician.

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.

I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.

I could have gone professional, but I'm not giving up on my dream.

The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.