Professional Quotes

• I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • World
  • Great
  • Humanity

• Evangelism is not a professional job for a few trained men, but is instead the unrelenting responsibility of every person who belongs to the company of Jesus.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Men
  • Job
  • Responsibility

• Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • True
  • Professional
  • Be True

• Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • Real
  • American
  • America

• I had begun my professional career when I was 9 years old at the Cleveland Play House, and it was a very specific, real theater sort of like, you know, in England and the Berliner Ensemble - very devoted people. And I thought the theater was the greatest place I had ever been, and that's what I wanted to do.

  

  Joel Grey
  • People
  • Real
  • Career

• The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better.

  

  Marion Ross
  • Great
  • Professional

• I have the cliche 'struggling actor' story. I was waiting tables in New York, went out to L.A. soon after graduation to get some jobs, but it didn't work out. I wanted to cut my teeth in professional theater, so I came back to New York. It made my journey a longer one, but I really wanted to excel in the theater.

  

  Pedro Pascal
  • Work
  • Waiting
  • Journey

• I love all food. All of it. I wish I could be a professional eater.

  

  Lauren Gibbs
  • Food
  • Wish
  • Professional

• I'm interested in being a professional actress.

  

  Emma Kenney
  • Professional

• Well, I'm a professional.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Professional
  • Well

• We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Mother
  • Beginning
  • Star

• When I'd go to Israel, I felt like a tourist. My social and professional ties had started to dissolve, and it confused me. I didn't know whether I should stay here in Paris or go back to Israel, or even cut off all my ties with Israel so I could really plant roots here. Or maybe go somewhere else altogether.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Paris
  • Plant
  • Confused

• Until I was 21, I wasn't going into the media. I was a professional show jumper; I was going to have a farm... Then my father died, and it changed my life. I realised I had to have a go at being a journalist to see if I could cut the mustard.

  

  Jonathan Dimbleby
  • Life
  • Father
  • Professional

• The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has some professional ethics. They are used to being above the law, to blackmail, to extort.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • American
  • Law
  • Latin

• When I'm not working in a professional capacity, I'm writing, and when I'm at home, it's a way of having contact with people or communicating.

  

  Jessie Cave
  • People
  • Writing
  • Home

• I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Time
  • Period
  • Dancing

• 'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Life
  • Time
  • Job

• Life as a poet and actor truly became full circle as I stood on stage as host of 'Verses & Flow' and lived in both of these outfits. It was one of the best experiences of my professional life.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Life
  • Best
  • Professional

• Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professional athlete. I knew when I got to college there was no way anybody was going to stop me from being an NFL player.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • School
  • High
  • Stop

• We played hard and we partied hard. I'm not ashamed of that. I was no angel - I did some things I shouldn't have done, lived a lifestyle I shouldn't have lived. I had a blast at times; other times, I probably compromised my job, my duty to do my job, to be ready as a professional.

  

  David Cone
  • Done
  • Job
  • Angel

• Photographer James Nachtwey has spent his professional life in the places people most want to avoid: war zones and refugee camps, the city flattened by an earthquake, the village swallowed by a flood, the farm hollowed out by famine.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Life
  • War

• I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.

  

  Harold Budd
  • Life
  • America
  • Professional

• They tried to make my dad play professional basketball. But he was married young, too, at 20 years old. He wanted to have a family and said that money was not enough.

  

  Asdrubal Cabrera
  • Family
  • Money
  • Dad

• The pressure, the heat, the almost impossibly fast pace at which you need work - this is the reality of working in the culinary industry. This is what professional chefs do night after night.

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • Work
  • Night
  • Reality

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