Professional Quotes

1501 Professional quotes by 1235 unique authors

The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money. — Jimmy Breslin
I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors. — Cleveland Amory
What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You're taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please. — Fergie
Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional. — Robert Breault
It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional. — Robert Breault
It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch, saying that he could tell… — Christopher Hitchens
I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics. I have mingled with dangerous criminals and attended many trials… — Hunter S. Thompson
America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do. — John Kenneth Galbraith
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside. — Tom Peters
Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I… — John Green
Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars. — Norman Mailer
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business… — Alan Greenspan
Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties. — Martin Amis
I have a professional acquaintance whose recent eyelid job has left her with a permanent expression of such poleaxed astonishment that she looks at all… — Florence King
Well, I'm a professional. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports, its… — Roger Angell
Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living. — Tracy Kidder
I'm very professional. — Matthew Lewis
Even Rod Woodson will tell you his best year he had as a professional was when he was 36 years old. If you think about… — Ray Lewis
It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to… — Matthew Modine
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
Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do. — Jerry O'Connell
Um, accidents happen. Especially if there's a co-star that you're not that fond of - you might 'accidentally' deck him. But no, I'm a professional.… — Timothy Olyphant
The central point of this final chapter is that - follow my logic carefully here - unless you die, you will continue to get older.… — Dave Barry

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