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In professional work - certainly in the arts and graphics - 99% of people have zero courage. They blow with the wind. -- George Lois
Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much. -- Whitfield Diffie
I think that anybody who says 'This is the one way to go about being an actor' has probably not done a lot of professional work before. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I have a reputation in my professional work, negotiating contracts, where I've gone into deals where other people haven't closed the deal, and I've been able to get it done. -- Keith Rothfus
In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy. -- Aldrich Ames
My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company's Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years. -- Didi Conn
We're a very active family, and I like everything in its place. I'm all about designing every little space. It will help me in the business of being a mom. Every single day is so crazy with my work that I just need to be able to come home and do that business as efficiently as I try to do my professional work. -- Candice Olson
Amateurs hope. Professional work. -- Garson Kanin
Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work. -- Tom Peters
When I work, my first relationship with people is professional. -- Bill Murray
Doesn't matter if it's personal or professional, a good partnership takes work. -- Brian K. Vaughan
I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life. -- Jose Mourinho
I don't differentiate between personal and professional work. Everything I do is personal. -- Bill Frakes
I just like when I work with people that are professional and good. -- Taraji P. Henson
Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional. -- Jahangir Khan
Mort Meskin was a consummate professional, dedicated to his work. A great talent. -- Jack Kirby
I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent. -- Lauren Bacall
Being a professional woman, I function the best when I don't distinguish between work and play. -- Cristina Saralegui
A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it. -- Alistair Cooke
Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional. -- Mandy Moore
Believe in yourself. Listen to the photographers you work with, and try to be professional at all time. -- Alessandra Ambrosio
All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared. -- Ben Affleck
Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives. -- Adrian Edmondson
I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional. -- Mehmet Oz
There's nothing glorious about being a professional. . . . Professionalism probably comes down to being able to work on a bad day. -- Norman Mailer
I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not. -- Barbara Hepworth
Your work isn't a high stakes, nail-biting professional challenge. It's a form of play. Lighten up and have fun with it. -- Sol LeWitt
Whenever I work with anyone, it is an opportunity for them to become more professional and do something for someone else. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens. -- Jon Porter
Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated. -- Robert M. Hutchins
Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much -- Whitfield Diffie
The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her. -- Steven Pressfield
One of the by-products of being allowed to start my professional career prematurely is that the evolution of my work is really evident. -- Adrian Tomine
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be. -- Edward Weston
I've never really been concerned about being typecast, for me it's just about enjoying my work and being very professional in taking things on. -- David Boreanaz
I've met very few professional land surveyors who regret their career path, and even fewer, who are out of work, even during economic slowdowns. -- Mark Mason
Music is my life. The only other thing I've done is office work in different places. But no real professional career other than singing. -- Gloria Gaynor
The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work. -- Peter Drucker
I've been on plenty of sets where I have not liked the people that I work with, but you suck it up and be professional. -- Vanessa Marano
I used to tell the players that professional football is a part-time profession. I used to tell them it gets you ready for your life's work. -- Chuck Noll
Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear. -- Jamais Cascio
The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work. -- Steven Pressfield
I'm here to work.. not to like or dislike people. Neither am I here to win a Miss Congeniality competition. I maintain professional relations with my co-stars. -- Katrina Kaif
If you understand the independent worker, the self-employed professional, the freelancer, the e-lancer, the temp, you understand how work and business in the U.S. operate today. -- Daniel H. Pink
Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put three man-years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product, and distributing it for free? -- Bill Gates
I had such a good time working with John Woo and John Travolta, and it was so professional. I want to work with people who are real professionals. -- Christian Slater
The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming out in each individual work. -- Steven Pressfield
I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about. -- Quentin Blake
In all American professional sports you start on a certain level and you have to work your way up through a farm system. It's really the same in acting. -- Bruce Dern
It is good for a professional to be reminded that his professionalism is only a husk, that the real person must remain an amateur, a lover of the work. -- May Sarton
As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk. -- Danny Boyle
The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve. -- John Gregory Dunne
Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball. -- Jim Evans
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