Professional Quotes

1501 Professional quotes by 1235 unique authors

Besides my professional goals, I have a couple of private ones, my man. One of those is to pet a kangaroo before I leave Australia.… — Jennifer Rardin
The search for one's first professional job is not unlike a magical love potion: when one wants to fall in love with the next thing… — Sloane Crosley
A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?'… — Terry Pratchett
I’m a professional bodyguard. (Leta) Yeah, right. (Aiden) Nope. All true. I know seventy-two ways to kill a man and sixty-nine of them look like… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how to become a professional writer. I say to you,… — Kurt Vonnegut
Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions. — Sherman Alexie
Nick was dressed in jeans, a dark green sweater, and bomber jacket–the perfect image of a rich college student. Talon looked like a biker who… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war. — David Mitchell
When you're a professional you do your job no matter what gets in the way. You might take a sick day, you might take a… — Charlaine Harris
You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur. — Katharine Hepburn
In some ways, I don’t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read and write, I… — Shannon Hale
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… — Alain de Botton
To stay vigorous, a company needs to provide a stimulating and challenging environment for all these types: the dreamer, the entrepreneur, the professional manager, and… — Howard Schultz
I hate meeting new people even new clients who intend to give me money. I try to be pleasant but I'm not very good at… — Cherie Priest
It is no exaggeration to say that every human being is hypnotized to some extent either by ideas he has uncritically accepted from others or… — Maxwell Maltz
I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook. — Laura Anne Gilman
The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously "the people of the book."… — Malcolm Gladwell
We stand a professional distance apart, as if I can’t feel his pain screaming in my head. Mine amplifies his; they share a joint sound—that… — Ann Aguirre
Have you ever been approached by a grim-looking man, carrying a naked sword with a blade about ten miles long in his hand, in the… — Jim Butcher
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… — Steven Pressfield
It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one—not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software… — Malcolm Gladwell
There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a… — Michael Lewis
I changed my mind. I don’t want to be an inveshtigative journalist anymore. I want to be a professional rum drinker.” “There are people who… — Libba Bray

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