Professional Quotes

A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us.

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

You can draw Family Guy when you're 10 years old. You don't have to get any better than that to become a professional cartoonist. The standards are extremely low.

I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did.

My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

I am not a professional politician.

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.

The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.

I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22.

Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide.

The professional must learn to be moved and touched emotionally, yet at the same time stand back objectively: I've seen a lot of damage done by tea and sympathy.

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.

I hit the ground running, without a lot of training, so I had to do whatever I could do to survive as a professional, and if that meant being that character 24/7 and acting out, I was going to do that. I lived those characters, I brought them home with me.

That is what I always tell service clubs: If you hear of somebody who is very young and talented, pick them up and give them that little assistance to make sure that they get to the professional stage.

It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.

All of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense.

For me, skateboarding is a lifestyle. I really don't know anything different. My life revolves around skating. If I wasn't a professional skateboarder, I'd still be skating every day.

'Rent' was my first professional job, ever.

Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.

I love doing voiceover work. I started doing voiceover work when I had just dropped out of school, and the first few professional jobs I got were plays, but then I started making money doing voice-overs.

So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.

THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn.

The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.

I know that if I went to other studios, like in Vancouver, that those are set up to be as professional and as true, so it's just a different flavour, it's a different sound, but I think both have their place.

The mark of a true professional is giving more than you get.

Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.

I will never again stand on the pitch as a professional player. But I won't stop playing the game.