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Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind. -- Kedar Joshi
Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose. -- Marshall McLuhan
My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive. -- David Fincher
Professionalism in law has brought us the O.J. Simpson case in lieu of justice. -- Bill James
Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places. -- Jeanette Winterson
Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin. -- Bill James
There's nothing glorious about being a professional. . . . Professionalism probably comes down to being able to work on a bad day. -- Norman Mailer
I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play. -- Wynton Marsalis
Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top. -- Chili Davis
Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose -- Marshall McLuhan
Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed. -- John Updike
Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs. -- Ogden Nash
The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves. -- Elaine Morgan
Focus on being the best you can at what you want to do. -- David Maister
We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice. -- John C. Maxwell
Modeling gave me a strong discipline of professionalism where you work very long hours. -- Jaime King
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it. -- Alistair Cooke
Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time. -- Neil Young
Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you. -- David Maister
In some ways, TV is more regimented, but there is a level of professionalism that's very high, among the people that work in television. -- Zak Penn
I do feel as if my own music as quite flawed, and it's that frailty or lack of technical proficiency that goes hand-in-hand with some sort of professionalism. -- Justin Broadrick
I believe that no one can teach you how to act, but schools do give you an environment to make mistakes, to learn techniques and to learn professionalism. -- Enrico Colantoni
To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in the pursuit of your ideal. You require absolute control and professionalism. -- Yehudi Menuhin
The night schedule is a crazy pit I fall into most of the time, but I do like it because the buzz of normal professionalism has gone away. Even though you're working, you feel like you're playing. -- Nate Lowman
At home and abroad, military men and women are showing purpose and dedication in defending American ideas. They are performing in our country's best traditions under circumstances both difficult and complex. Thanks to their determined spirit of patriotism and professionalism, our country has a powerful and unified defense team, employing its forces in the constant quest for peace and freedom. -- Melvin Laird
It was great fun working with Pierce [Brosnan]. He taught me a lot in terms of professionalism and how to take care of yourself on these action movies. They're fairly long shoots and they're fairly physical and fairly emotional, so you have to maintain yourself and make sure you can make it all the way through. That's something I learned from him. -- Luke Bracey
Dancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most frivolous... phases of the stage. But this day is fading...We are turning our gaze inward, learning to seek there the divine sources of the dance, to the end that it may flower into new and more glorious forms of beauty and wealth -- Ruth St. Denis
One vote, one act or one person can change the course of history. I also thought of the lawyers who daily and tirelessly labor in the vineyards of justice - men and women who represent their clients with integrity, ethics and professionalism, and who think nothing of it as that is what lawyers do. Yet, often these individuals are the very people who change the world. -- Martha Barnett
What worries me is the professionalism of everything. -- Irvine Welsh
I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid. -- Erica Jong
Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism. -- Karan Johar
I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism. -- Henry Thomas
I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism. -- Brittany Murphy
It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain. -- Don DeLillo
Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards. -- John Engler
Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR. -- Paul Weyrich
Being successful is about professionalism, and chewing gum is unprofessional. Its also a huge pet peeve of mine. -- Tabatha Coffey
What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals. The sensationalism has taken over the professionalism. -- Barry Larkin
I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last. -- Tim Berners-Lee
My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone. -- Jonny Wilkinson
The professionalism of wire service reporters is constantly being tested because reporters know that if they're late or sloppy on a story, it will show up because the competition is likely to be not late and not sloppy. -- Bob Greene
Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors. -- Yochai Benkler
Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge; I can't think about filling them. -- Randy West
That professionalism comes from what I've watched people do on the set. I'm just trying to be as respectful to the environment, as they have been. I think I still act like a kid. I just try to be as professional as I can. -- Haley Joel Osment
Once you realize that you're in something that you've always wanted and you don't want to lose it, you behave differently. And that means the integrity, the professionalism, and knowing what's right from wrong and still making choices that you probably wouldn't have made. -- Paul Anka
When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite, believing that these critics would be so charmed by my professionalism that they would see the error of their misogynist ways and swiftly run out to read a bell hooks book. Ha! -- Jessica Valenti
I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you're a writer it's your job to manufacture books as opposed to writing them and to go to festivals and spend your life emotionally invested in reviews or the awards. You have to shrink your universe in a way. To me, it's the opposite. -- Arundhati Roy
To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an office with a long and rich tradition, not only of extraordinary legal skill but also of extraordinary professionalism and integrity. That is due, in large measure, to the people who have led it. -- Elena Kagan
In business 'professionalism' is not a tactic but a moral value. -- Amit Kalantri
Treat your clients with high professionalism and they will no more negotiate with you. -- Amit Kalantri
Without professionalism I'd be an amateur, and the clients I want don't hire amateurs. -- David Airey
Your money is just a condition to get my business, your professionalism is the price. -- Amit Kalantri
Gerald Green is a fine Coach and Trainer, I have every confidence in his professionalism. -- Dottie Walters
It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain. -- Don DeLillo
What I adore is supreme professionalism. I'm bored by writers who can write only when it's raining. -- Noel Coward
My brothers and sisters prayers and faith in God does not negate professionalism and dignity of labour. -- Sunday Adelaja
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields -- Bjarne Stroustrup
Working with Michael Chiklis is a lesson in professionalism and staying focused. That's what Chiklis brings all day long. -- Sean Faris
Ronaldo is a unique player for all of his talent and his professionalism. He is a player who is extraordinarily consistent. -- Carlo Ancelotti
They copied my product, they copied my strategies yet they failed miserably in the business, because they couldn't copy my professionalism. -- Amit Kalantri
An opened mind will eventually lead to a more well rounded artist and this will thus heightenen his or her level of professionalism. -- St. Lucia
Our all-volunteer force continues to prove itself with a great level of professionalism, personal commitment and a technical competence that is quite remarkable. -- Geoff Davis
The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else. -- Steven Pressfield
From the War for Independence to today in Iraq and Afghanistan, I am inspired by the courage, professionalism and patriotism of our men and women in uniform. -- Tim Ryan
The standard has gone up, whether that's down to the split divisions or more professionalism. People are raising the bar and wanting to emulate the England team. -- Stuart Law
What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism. -- Rowan Williams
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I hate it when theater people go on about professionalism - aren't they boring? I try to be as unprofessional as possible. And I'm a little bit politically incorrect. -- Barry Humphries
A life that most people will never even know about can be yours in this study, but only if you approach it with equanimity, poise, grace, balance, and professionalism. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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
Seeing Ed Belfour have expectations higher than anyone else of him shows the kind of competitor he is. I would love to incorporate a high level of professionalism into my game. -- Marty Turco
The scariest, ugliest stories about in-home nursing usually are the result of nurses demonstrating a lack of professionalism, bad morals or a disregard for the child for whom they are providing care. -- Charisse Montgomery
It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in maintaining his standards for performance and professionalism. -- Jon Landau
The professionalism of technique and flash of dexterity are more comfortable to be around than raw creative power, hence our society generally rewards virtuoso performers more highly than it rewards original creators. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
It is the height of professionalism to be able to make an ordinary piece of music sound good. When playing routine melodic studies the player must treat them as if they are musical value. -- Howard Snell
I was most impressed with the professionalism of our soldiers stationed there, and I am now more confident than ever that that the operations at Guantanamo are being conducted in a humane and necessary manner. -- Jim Ryun
I was most impressed with the professionalism of our soldiers stationed there, and I am now more confident than ever that that the operations at Guantanamo are being conducted in a humane and necessary manner." -- Jim Ryun

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