Professional Work Quotes

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  • The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.

  • I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything.

    Careers   Looks   Want  
    Orange County Register, July 9, 1999.
  • Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put three man-years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product, and distributing it for free?

    Men   Years   Three  
    "Rebel Code: Linus Torvalds, Open Source, and the War for the Soul of Software" by Glyn Moody, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2001.
  • You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

  • I have a reputation in my professional work, negotiating contracts, where I've gone into deals where other people haven't closed the deal, and I've been able to get it done.

    People   Able   Gone  
  • A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

    Alistair Cooke (2012). “Reporting America”, p.14, The Overlook Press
  • Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.

  • My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company's Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years.

    Summer   Teacher   Jobs  
  • Amateurs hope. Professional work.

  • I don't differentiate between personal and professional work. Everything I do is personal.

  • Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much

  • Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

  • Most of my professional work has been in these areas - as a historical critic, as a literary critic. I've done very little in the history of interpretation [as Elie Wiesel has]. I've been interested in it, but I have not contributed to that field, really.

    Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org
  • I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

    Lou Holtz (1990). “The Fighting Spirit: A Championship Season at Notre Dame”
  • If the Commission is to enquire into the conditions "to be observed," it is to be presumed that they will give the result of their enquiries; or, in other words, that they will lay down, or at least suggest, "rules" and "conditions to be (hereafter) observed" in the construction of bridges, or, in other words, embarrass and shackle the progress of improvement to-morrow by recording and registering as law the prejudices or errors of to-day. [Objecting to any interference by the State with the freedom of civil engineers in the conduct of their professional work.]

    Errors   Law   Bridges  
  • Prostitution is said to be the world's oldest profession. It is, indeed, a model of all professional work: the worker relinquishes control over himself... in exchange for money. Because of the passivity it entails, this is a difficult and, for many, a distasteful role.

    "The Second Sin". Book by Thomas Szasz, 1973.
  • You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

    "International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations". Book by William S. Walsh, 1951.
  • No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community. The possibility it offers of displacing a large amount of libidinal components, whether narcissistic, aggressive or even erotic, on to professional work and on to the human relations connected with it lends it a value by no means second to what it enjoys as something indispensable to the preservation and justification of existence in society.

    Work   Mean   Reality  
    Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”
  • In my own professional work I have touched on a variety of different fields. I've done work in mathematical linguistics, for example, without any professional credentials in mathematics; in this subject I am completely self-taught, and not very well taught.

    Self   Done   Fields  
    Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault (2006). “The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature”, The New Press
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