Professional Quotes

1501 Professional quotes by 1235 unique authors

My professional aspirations were simple - I wanted to be an intergalactic princess. — Janet Evanovich
Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most… — S I Hayakawa
The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for… — Noam Chomsky
If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella. — Susanna Kaysen
I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong. — Julie Andrews
Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but totally so –… — Philip K. Dick
Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll… — Berkeley Breathed
The cards are stacked (quite properly, I imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic deaths we all… — J D Salinger
And the old horror of being a professional writer, and the usual stench of words that goes with it, is begining to drive me out… — J D Salinger
What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well… — Charles Bukowski
It is all in the way of professional experience. - Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle
Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional… — Julian Barnes
The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart. — Peter S. Beagle
Now, I'm no doctor, but I am on TV. And in my professional opinion, George Bush is a paranoid schizophrenic. — Bill Maher
We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the learned men; in… — Karl Popper
Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel… — Ian Mcewan
No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot `handle the class.' Real education must ultimately be… — Ezra Pound
He fell in love with Manhattan's skyline, like a first-time brothel guest falling for a seasoned professional. He mused over her reflections in the black… — Arthur Phillips
Really, becoming a writer sounds more like a mental illness than a professional choice. — Shannon Hale
Not really hungry." "She’ll eat." Pritkin said curtly. "I said —" "If you starve to death it would damage my professional reputation." "I eat plenty."… — Karen Chance
I'm thinking of being a professional mourner. How hard can it be? Tear at your hair, sing a dirge or two, take the rest of… — Christopher Moore
Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are. — George Orwell
My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepared, I arrived bearing name tags fashioned in… — David Sedaris
Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It is impossible to calculate… — Thomas Paine

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