P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Professional competitions are overrated.”
“Professional courage is the steel fiber that makes an NCO unafraid and willing to tell it like it is. The concept of professional courage does not always mean being as tough as nails, either. It also suggests a willingness to listen to the soldiers' problems, to go to bat for them in a tough situation and it means knowing just how far they can go. It also means being willing to tell the boss when he is wrong.”
“Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.”
“Professional development is important, but let's not forget about the most important kind of development - personal brand development. Because in the modern workplace, it's not what you know, it's who knows you.”
Source: Career's Quest: Proven Strategies for Mastering Success in Your Profession: Networking and Building Professional Relationships
“Professional’ does not necessarily mean that the person so labelled is good or knows what they are doing. In many a case, it merely means that they do whatever that they are a professional at for a living, not as a hobby.”
Source: N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
“Professional football in America is a special game, a unique game ... It is a rare game. The men who play it make it so. All of them are fearless. All of them are strong, quick. And all of them are part of a story that began long ago. A story written by men who found, in the sport, a demanding measure for their own courage and ability.”
“Professional football is a job and it's in the entertainment business.”
“Professional football is no longer a game. It's a war. And it brings out the same primitive instincts that go back thousands of years.”
“Professional football is the most violent thing your eyes have ever seen.”
“Professional football's a tough game. It's a lot of contact. It's a lot of wear and tear on your body. You've got elite athletes running into each other, play after play, at high speeds. And this is something that I love and I enjoy.”
“Professional footballers - those virile young stags of our modern culture - are near perpetual fountains of sputum.”
“Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.”
“Professional golfer... what a life.”
“Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.”
Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
“Professional investment may be likened to those newspaper competitions in which the competitors have to pick out the six prettiest faces from a hundred photographs, the prize being awarded to the competitor whose choice most nearly corresponds to the average preferences of the competitors as a whole.”
Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money
“Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you.”
“Professional land surveyors take on a lot of responsibility, and should be compensated appropriately.”
“Professional loyalty now flows "horizontally" to and from your network rather than "vertically" to your boss, as Dan Pink has noted.”
Source: The Startup of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career
“Professional magic isn't performed to fool them, it is performed to please them.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly.”
“Professional marriage counselors agree that the most productive and mature way to deal with marital anger is to stomp dramatically from the room. You want to make your move before the opponent does, because the first person to stomp from the room receives valuable Argument Points that can be redeemed for exciting merchandise at the Marital Prize Redemption Center.”
Source: Dave Barry Talks Back
“Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.”
“Professional money managers are worried about their annual results and may take irrational decisions to protect their performance record. Individual investors have
nobody to report, and yearly performance does not mean anything to them.”
“Professional motorcycle riders that are pretty young because it's a young man's sport. You're like out of your prime if you're in your mid to late 20s. Which is awful but a lot of guys still do ride into their late 20s. I rode. I just didn't do any of the jumps or races.”
“Professional Networking
“The first week I lived in Madison, WI, I sought a local chapter meeting for ATD (Association for Training Development). Having belonged to the same organization in Florida, I knew it would be a comfortable way to meet new people and make new friends. Knowing we would have a lot in common, I entered the room of strangers feeling confident and hopeful.
As everyone took turns introducing themselves, it was easy to see our common denominators. I briefly mentioned that I was new to the area, was a professional speaker, and a member of the National Speakers Association. Within minutes of mentioning NSA, a fellow participant approached me, shared that she was a member too, and our lively conversation began. The positive first impression we made on each was so powerful and captivating that we continued our conversations for months to come. Now, two years later, Tina and I are the best of friends and I have every confidence we will be for life. You never know when an amazing person will walk into your life when you seek common bonds and camaraderie.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“Professional opinion is skeptical about anything that doesn't fit in with the version of reality it has been programmed to believe in. The skepticism comes from a lack of understanding and the need to defend the status quo and not from actual knowledge of the subject.”
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“Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.”
“Professional philosophers are usually only apologists: that is, they are absorbed in defending some vested illusion or some eloquent idea. Like lawyers or detectives, they study the case for which they are retained.”
Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana
“Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.”
Source: The Reagan wit
“Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that everybody tries to do just this. What else is gossip?”
Source: Four-square
“Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.”
Source: The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh
“Professional soldiers are people who die for a living.”
“Professional Southerners sicken me.”
“Professional sports are something they can't control.”
“Professional sports is a business.”
“Professional sports, in of itself, is a fantasy, for the majority of the population.”
“Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow the ground of judgment. But amateur standards, the standards of love, are always straining upward toward the humble and the best. They enlarge the ground of judgment. The context of love is the world.”
Source: What Are People For?: Essays
“Professional style is not merely about dressing in a suit or donning a crisp white shirt. It’s an intricate blend of personal expression, power, and credibility.”
Source: The Power Dressers: A Women’s Guide to Professional Style
“Professional traders have always had some system or other based upon their experience and governed either by their attitude towards speculation or by their desires.”
“Professional trust is a process, not a state.”
“Professional wrestling has moved so far to the athleticism side and people are overly indulging in the stunt monkeys, but that's why there are so many injuries all the time. You need to break open your soul, break open your mind, and remember that pro wrestling is magic.”
“Professional wrestling is in my blood. I may have second guessed it in the past, but I know it now.”
“Professional/personal coaching addresses the whole person - with an emphasis on producing action and uncovering learning that can lead to more fulfillment, more balance, and a more effective process for living.”
“Professionalism has a universal culture, irrespective of language, religion or country.”
Source: Quantraz
“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.”
“Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.”
“Professionalism in tennis ... only resulted in making billionaires out of rude children, producing an onslaught of moody defectors, and a lot of guys with hair that looks as if bats slept in it... Meanwhile, my head swims with the thought that I have watched tennis progress from Don Budge and Alice Marble to Farrah Fawcett becoming John McEnroe's mother-in-law.”
“Professionalism is death, excellence is life.”
“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.”
Source: The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects