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Amateur feed on hope. Professionals work. -- Garson Kanin
Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom. -- Bill Moyers
Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics. -- Omar N. Bradley
Amateurs focus on rewards. Professionals focus on risk! -- Harold Homer Anderson
Amateurs built the Ark; Professionals built the Titanic. -- Elizabeth May
Professionals who are prayerful and productive are indispensable! -- Edwin Louis Cole
Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money. -- Alan Greenspan
Amateurs practice until they get it right. Professionals practice until it can't go wrong. -- Julie Andrews
Professionals have to decide on which subjects they are prepared to give nagging rights -- David Maister
Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood. -- Claudia Cardinale
And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie. -- Claudia Cardinale
I like those guys who brought dub into live band context too, Peaking Lights. Joe Gibbs & The Professionals! -- Subb-an
Amateurs write when they are inspired. Professionals are inspired when they write. This is a subtle but important distinction. -- Michael Hyatt
I don't think I would've been performing this long if I didn't love it sincerely to the degree that I do. It's not enough to like it. Dilettantes like things. Professionals love things and I consider myself a professional. -- Lea Salonga
Laborers want their kids to be merchants or business people. Business people want their kids to be professionals. Professionals want their kids to be academics, professors. Academics want their kids to be artists. And artists don't care if their kids are laborers or not. They can be anything. -- Demetri Martin
Teachers need to be paid like professionals. -- Geoffrey Canada
In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs. -- Francois Truffaut
Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals. -- Doug Ose
What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals. -- Barry Larkin
All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor. -- Harrison Ford
People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another. -- Erin McKean
What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals. The sensationalism has taken over the professionalism. -- Barry Larkin
You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
I invite you to leverage Serbia because we have talented young professionals who are multilingual, highly educated, and willing to work for competitive wages. -- Ivica Dacic
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
Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals. -- Ruben Hinojosa
I'm just saying if you want to reach large audiences, then rely on professionals, meaning people who are in the industry and are trained for it, rather than just idiot savants. -- Barry Diller
We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down. -- David Byrne
During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved. -- Melissa Bean
Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of - actually in Africa - we're seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota. -- John Dramani Mahama
A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout. -- Willard Gaylin
When I first started doing these roasts in the mid '90s, they were a lost art, like jousting or calligraphy. But I feel like roasts help tame the room and let off steam... It's like it's all being handled by professionals. -- Jeff Ross
Most mental health professionals, including clinicians and researchers, endorse the deficit theory. They're convinced that we wage war simply because we don't know how to make love. We desperately want loving, satisfying relationships but lack the skills we need to develop them. -- David D. Burns
Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person's sense of self-worth. -- Anthony Carmona
Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or picking or crafting, they see themselves as professionals, and they take a lot of pride in that work. They don't see themselves as doing work that is demeaning. -- Dolores Huerta
The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people. -- Freeman Dyson
In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown. -- Cam Newton
Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner is a professional. A traditional midwife is a professional. A traditional bone setter is a professional. These are professionals all over the world. You find them in any inaccessible village around the world. -- Bunker Roy
You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame. -- Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Amateurs study tactics; professionals study logistics. -- Omar N. Bradley
A lot of professionals are crackpots. -- Jenny Holzer
Nihilism is best done by professionals. -- Iggy Pop
I love mixing amateurs and professionals. -- Lasse Hallstrom
Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people. -- Bruce Schneier
gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals. -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people. -- Bruce Schneier
The professionals must set a good example. -- A. Bartlett Giamatti
In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs -- Francois Truffaut
I'm a decentralizer. I believe in trusting professionals. -- Michael Gove
The amateurs discuss tactics: the professionals discuss logistics -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Populists love rich people. They just hate professionals. -- David Brooks
Making music should not be left to the professionals. -- Michelle Shocked
Music is too important to be left to professionals. -- Michelle Shocked
Most men have professions, yet few act like professionals. -- Chris Murray
...and that's what separates the professionals from the taxpayers -- Jason Kidd
Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals. -- Derek Bok
I want to see as many black professionals as possible. -- Orlando Jones
1 out of every 3 professionals on the planet is on LinkedIn. -- Jason Miller
On one thing professionals and amateurs agree: mothers can't win. -- Margaret Drabble
Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work. -- Robert Genn
In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Actors are professionals who deal with people's emotions and their thoughts. -- Park Chan-wook
The creatives are rarely professional and the professionals are rarely creative. -- Simon Sinek
If you think that hiring professionals is expensive, try hiring amateurs -- Red Adair
Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals. -- Fernando Flores
Regulation of derivatives transactions that are privately negotiated by professionals is unnecessary. -- Alan Greenspan
Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions. -- Barbara Boxer
The necessity for 'professionals' in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged. -- Jason Alexander
Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality. -- Jessica Livingston
Amateurs go broke taking large losses, professionals go broke taking small profits. -- William Eckhardt
A treasure trove for parents and for professionals in the child-development fields. -- Jeffrey K. Zeig
Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank. -- Bertolt Brecht
The Titanic was built by professionals. The Ark was built by volunteers. -- Barbara Bush
Reiki has become a sought-after healing art among patients and mainstream medical professionals. -- Mehmet Oz
Learning professionals need to be thinking about creating learning experiences rather than learning content -- Charles Jennings
The professionals are going to be joined by the average Joe. Everybody's a publisher. -- Eric Brown
Inspiration is for amateurs. professionals work everyday. Personally the best inspiration is a deadline. -- Chuck Close
Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals. -- Natalie Dormer
I only work with professionals. I don't mean at seminars, but in my business. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician. -- Felix Frankfurter
I think comedy should be left up to the professionals, that way everyone's safety is protected. -- Greg Proops
Take it from me because I learned the hard way: circumcisions are best left to professionals. -- Mark Hoppus
Never forget that music is too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals. -- Robert Fulghum
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If medical doctors can be sued for malpractice, shouldn't financial professionals practice under the same safeguard? -- Robert Kiyosaki
My children have become popular, and they show a tremendous love for the public. They're professionals. -- Julio Iglesias
By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals. -- Warren Buffett
There are great amateur bodies that have good programs right from the grassroots level to professionals. -- Karrie Webb
We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy. -- Andrew Lansley
In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals. -- John Ratzenberger
I believe 'assuming' should be left for professionals. Amateurs should just stand by and seek the truth. -- Evelyn Leilou Colon
Political reporters and political professionals rushed to judgment against Romney because we crave clear, unambiguous story lines. -- Ron Fournier
We learn as professionals by repetition, by getting it wrong, getting yelled at and doing it again. -- Anthony Bourdain
What about regular professionals, who just want to do what they do as well as they can? -- Atul Gawande
The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals. -- Jacques Barzun
I feel that it's important our professionals have the tools to keep the enemy, to stop their attacks. -- George W. Bush
There's a fine line between career criminals and career professionals because most of us fall somewhere in between. -- Samantha Leahy
Clearly [Donald] Trump likes the way business executives and generals think and talk much more than policy professionals. -- Rich Lowry
Before a leader can be accepted, let alone succeed, autonomous professionals must agree to be influenced by that person. -- David Maister
"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
The outpouring of support from health professionals who want to volunteer for Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts has been tremendous, -- Calvin Johnson
While I respect the professionals at the FBI, this announcement defies explanation. No one should be above the law. -- Paul Ryan
We do not have to be mental health professionals to identify the traits of the possible sociopaths among us. -- P.A. Speers
I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals out there who buy my devices at whole sale price. -- Alex Chiu
Donald Trump'd rather believe Vladimir Putin than the military and civilian intelligence professionals who are sworn to protect us. -- Hillary Clinton
The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired. -- Les Paul
Lots of the cooking classes open to non-professionals are too low-level for experienced foodies, or don't offer enough hands-on training. -- Homaro Cantu
User-generated content is not done by professionals. The best user-generated content eventually becomes those people gravitated in the professional world. -- Michael Eisner
Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves? -- Diane Ravitch
We need more portrayals of women as competent professionals and happy mothers - or even happy professionals and competent mothers. -- Sheryl Sandberg
I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company. -- Chuck Schumer
I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company. -- Chuck Schumer
It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals. -- Benjamin Graham
India's place in the sun would come from the partnership between wisdom of its rural people and skill of its professionals -- Verghese Kurien
The aristocracy is in decline in the City, and the cloth-cap professionals are in the ascent. And we will take over -- Paul Neild
I know we're meant to be these hard-headed, money-obsessed professionals but we're still little boys at heart. Just ask our wives. -- Rob Lee

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