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The art schools seem to be trying to turn people out as "professional." But I don't know what the word "professional" means any longer. "Professional" would be somebody who was trying to push painting to a point that nobody else could do as well as he could. That would be my ideal professional. By Lawrence Weiner Professional Art Schools Turn People

I love mixing amateurs and professionals. By Lasse Hallstrom Professionals Love Mixing Amateurs

You can be an amateur and have a passion for something, but it takes a long time to actually become a professional, meaning that you can handle any situation. By Patton Oswalt Professional Meaning Situation Amateur Passion

The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like. By Steven Pressfield Success Happiness Professional Work Learned

The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her. By Steven Pressfield Professional Loves Work Wholeheartedly Invested

what makes a professional is not merely an academic excellence; it is in the possession of the relevant virtues related to the professional's area of expertise. By Michael Quansah Professional Excellence Expertise Makes Academic

I would hate to think I am not an amature. An amateur is one who loves what he is doing. Very often, I'm afraid, the professional hates what he is doing. So, I'd rather be an amateur. By Yehudi Menuhin Amature Amateur Hate Hates Loves

It is not how you dress, where you sit or how you speak that makes you professional?. It is how you say things, what you achieve, how you do things That makes you a true professional?. By Sameh Elsayed Makes Professional Dress Sit Speak

Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional. By Charles Kettering Amateur Honest Researcher Admits Professional

I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals. By David Mccullough Love Called Word Fairly Amateur

every professional was once a beginner By Helen Hayes Beginner Professional

I'm not a professional. Yet somehow, I manage to get away with it. By Chico Buarque Professional Manage

Hair and drug-use issues notwithstanding, I've never thought of you as any less than professional. By Thomas Pynchon Hair Notwithstanding Professional Druguse Issues

The professional cannot allow the actions of others to define his reality. By Steven Pressfield Reality Professional Actions Define

I guess I'm not a professional's professional. I think I'd rather go to the dentist than play a practice round. By Laura Davies Professional Guess Round Dentist Play

I've been asked often what is the difference between an amateur and a professional artist, and I will tell you. An amateur artist is one who works all week at something else so he can paint on Saturday and Sunday. A professional artist is one whose wife works so he can paint all the time. By Ben Shahn Artist Amateur Professional Sunday Asked

As an amateur, you may envy the professional, wishing you could combine business with pleasure into a kind of full-time hobby, using professional equipment and facilities. However, the professional knows that much of the hidden advantage of being amateur is the freedom you have to shoot what and when you like. By Michael Langford Professional Wishing Hobby Facilities Amateur

I'm a pro! No, what I mean is I have performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England. I have been all over the place. I have studied theatre for seven years. By Kunal Nayyar Pro England Royal Shakespeare Company

There are three qualities that make someone a true professional. These are the ability to work unsupervised, the ability to certify the completion of a job or task and, finally, the ability to behave with integrity at all times. By Subroto Bagchi Ability Professional Qualities Make True

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. By Marshall Mcluhan Environmental Professionalism Amateurism Individual Total

Remember: the amateur works until he can get it right. The professional works until he cannot go wrong. By Julie Andrews Edwards Remember Works Amateur Wrong Professional

I just want to stay professional. By Maddie Ziegler Professional Stay

I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life. By Andre Kertesz Life Amateur Intend Stay Rest

The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks his outworn body and dons a new one. He continues his journey. By Steven Pressfield Incarnation Successful Professional Permit Hidebound

The professional dedicates himself to mastering technique not because he believes technique is a substitute for inspiration but because he wants to be in possession of the full arsenal of skills when inspiration does come. By Steven Pressfield Technique Inspiration Professional Dedicates Mastering

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. By Richard Bach Quit Professional Writer Amateur

The professionals must set a good example. By A. Bartlett Giamatti Professionals Set Good

I believe I have a good idea of what you mean by "professionalism". It appears to mean getting one's way by cheating and manipulating. It means ordering one's priorities according to greed and advantage rather than the desire to see goodness and justice prevail in the world. If that is the "professionalism" you refer to, sir, I don't much care for it and have no wish to acquire it. By Kazuo Ishiguro Professionalism Good Idea Manipulating Sir

Professionals have coaches. Amateurs do not By Robert T. Kiyosaki Professionals Coaches Amateurs

Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language. By Bjarne Stroustrup Language Call Professional Knew

Amateur comes from the Latin agent amatus. To love. Never worry about love. Love delivers. It's the incompetent professionals that'll screw you. By C.d. Reiss Latin Amateur Amatus Love Agent

The amateur tweets. The pro works. By Steven Pressfield Tweets Amateur Works Pro

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. By John Updike Dependable Professionalism Difficulty Predictable Boring

I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen. By Noel Redding Seventeen Professional

Amateurs practice until they get it right. Professionals practice until it can't go wrong. By Julie Andrews Amateurs Practice Professionals Wrong

The professional, though he accepts money, does his work out of love. He has to love it. Otherwise he wouldn't devote his life to it of his own free will. By Steven Pressfield Professional Money Love Accepts Work

Professionalism is like love: it is made up of the constant flow of little bits of proof that testify to devotion and care. Everything else is pretension or incompetence. By Tomislav Sola Professionalism Love Care Made Constant

The amateur salesman sells products; the professional sells solutions to needs and problems. By Stephen Covey Products Problems Sells Amateur Salesman

The only thing more expensive than hiring a professional, is hiring an amateur. By Red Adair Professional Amateur Hiring Thing Expensive

We're all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the job all day 4) We are committed over the long haul 5) The stakes for us are high and real 6) We accept remuneration for our labor 7) We do not overidentify with our jobs 8 ) We master the technique of our jobs 9) We have a sense of humor about our jobs 10) We receive praise or blame in the real world By Steven Pressfield Jobs Show Day Pros Real

Ultimately, who you are as a person will define who you are as a professional. By Joanne Crisner Alcayaga Ultimately Professional Person Define

The professional tackles the project that will make him stretch. He takes on the assignment that will bear him into uncharted waters, compel him to explore unconscious parts of himself. By Steven Pressfield Stretch Professional Tackles Project Make

A true professional feels no pressure to run up a client's bill, knowing that any reduction in revenues caused by being efficient will be more than recompensed by the reputation earned for being honest and trustworthy. By David Maister Bill Knowing Trustworthy True Professional

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional. By Joe Paterno Perform Consistently Higher Level Professional

Technically, the professional takes money. Technically, the pro plays for pay. But in the end, he does it for love. By Steven Pressfield Technically Money Professional Pay End

U will become a fool if you are being professional with unprofessional person!! By Bharath Mamidoju Person Fool Professional Unprofessional

I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play. By Wynton Marsalis Professionalism Job Playing Play Grateful

Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot - or will not - achieve the mastery of a profession. But in the field of photographic practice, it is the amateur, on the contrary, who is the assumption of the professional: for it is he who stands closer to the (i)noeme(i) of Photography. By Roland Barthes Amateur Artist Achieve Profession Defined

It's a good thing I'm a professional and could see the pure genius talent behind the raw sexual beauty. By Zach Braff Beauty Good Thing Professional Pure

The author defines professionalism as exemplified by his subjects in their mutual unwillingness to take expected opposition personally. They would not allow grudges to get in the way of more important business. By Chris Matthews Personally Author Defines Professionalism Exemplified

I'm the wrong person to not be professional around. When someone calls 'action' and we're in the frame together, I'm gonna run you over. You're gonna get eaten alive. By John C. Mcginley Action Wrong Person Professional Gonna

The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work. By Steven Pressfield Mystery Sign Amateur Overglorification Preoccupation

Remember, every pro was first an amateur. Start your dream now! By Marie Forleo Remember Amateur Pro Start Dream

The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming out in each individual work. By Steven Pressfield Patience Career Work Professional Arms

The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like the dog in the fable, whose collar has made an indelible mark around his neck. The amateur is the shaggy wolf whom no dog had better trust too far. By Jacques Barzun Professionals Resemble Recognize Virtue Stigmata

When I work, my first relationship with people is professional. By Bill Murray Work Professional Relationship People

And I'm proud of what I do as a professional, too. By Lisa Guerrero Professional Proud

What happens when we turn pro is, we finally listen to that still, small voice inside our heads. At last we find the courage to identify the secret dream or love or bliss that we have known all along was our passion, our calling, our destiny. By Steven Pressfield Small Heads Turn Pro Finally

You don't have to be a professional to express an experienced opinion. Often times, the professionals are silent ... or biased ... By Garrett Mccoy Opinion Express Experienced Times Silent

No matter what you do,everyone starts off as a rookie. And if what your doing is done everyday with consistency, you will soon be a professional. Surpassing all others. By Ricky Star Rookie Matter Doeveryone Starts Consistency

I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent. By Lauren Bacall People Talent Work Good Professional

In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional. By Robert Genn Professional Life Art Enthusiastic Amateur

Being a professional," Julius Erving once said, "is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them."16 By Daniel H. Pink Julius Erving Professional Them Things

Can you at least pretend to be professional today?"Lindsey stopped, glanced back at Luc. "You show me professional, and I'llshow you professional."Luc snorted, but his expression was gleeful. "Sweetheart, you wouldn't knowprofessional if it bit you on the ass.""I prefer my bites in other places.""Is that an invitation?""If only you were so lucky, cowboy.""Lucky? Hooking up with me would be the luckiest day of your life, Blondie. By Chloe Neill Lindsey Luc Today Stopped Glanced

I only work with professionals. I don't mean at seminars, but in my business. By Frederick Lenz Professionals Work Seminars Business

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not. By Amanda Palmer Professionals Amateurs Worlds Simple Art

I could have gone professional, but I'm not giving up on my dream. By Rau'shee Warren Professional Dream Giving

What I call Professionalism someone else might call the Artist's Code or the Warrior's Way. It's an attitude of egolessness and service. The Knights of the Round Table were chaste and self-effacing. Yet they dueled dragons. By Steven Pressfield Professionalism Artist Code Warrior Call

The world is changing at such a rapid rate that it's turning us all into amateurs. Even for professionals, the best way to flourish is to retain an amateur's spirit and embrace uncertainty and the unknown. By Austin Kleon World Changing Rapid Rate Turning

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. By Edward Appleton Skill Rate Enthusiasm Professional

Do we really have to talk about professionalism? Everyone here is a professional. A master builder who puts up a wall that hasn't collapsed is certainly acting professionally, but professionalism ought to be the norm, and we should only be talking about the dodgy builder who puts up a wall that doesn't collapse....This insistence on professionalism, that it is something special, makes it sound as if people are generally lousy workers. By Umberto Eco Professionalism Talk Puts Wall Builder

One thing I point out is, a lot of people tooting the horn of amateurism, actually, these people were professionals. Some are professors who are employed full time. Others are marketers or business consultants. By Astra Taylor People Amateurism Professionals Thing Point

I just like when I work with people that are professional and good. By Taraji P. Henson Good Work People Professional

A pro looks at the people, because they know business is about people. By Donald J. Trump People Pro Business

I almost didn't turn pro at all. I was tempted to be a career amateur. I worked as an investment banker for nine months after I got out of school, and the money was fantastic and promised to get even more lucrative. By Matt Kuchar Turn Pro Amateur Tempted Career

Professional golfer ... what a life. By Billy Bush Professional Golfer Life

The sure sign of an amateur is he has a million plans and they all start tomorrow. By Steven Pressfield Tomorrow Sign Amateur Million Plans

When people whom trouble is not a problem find themselves in a predicament, they are woefully unprepared ... I, however, considered myself a professional. By Nancy Wolfe Predicament Unprepared People Trouble Problem

There's nothing glorious about being a professional ... Professionalism probably comes down to being able to work on a bad day. By Norman Mailer Professional Glorious Professionalism Day Work

I've dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I do for love. By Billy Childish Amateur Field Love Dubbed Work

I'm the kind of person who always has to be on time and I'm incredibly professional. By Julianna Margulies Professional Kind Person Time Incredibly

Seeing Ed Belfour have expectations higher than anyone else of him shows the kind of competitor he is. I would love to incorporate a high level of professionalism into my game. By Marty Turco Belfour Expectations Higher Shows Kind

Professional men, they have no cares;Whatever happens, they get theirs. By Ogden Nash Professional Men Cares

Every master was once a beginner. Every pro was once an amateur. By Robin Sharma Beginner Master Amateur Pro

The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist. By Steven Pressfield Work Overcome Fear Amateur Artist

I was planning to remain an amateur for a while. By Tracy Austin Planning Remain Amateur

Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top. By Paul Gallico Natural Work Top Good Hard

What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals. By Barry Larkin Fundamentals People Realize Professionals Sensational

I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure. By Werner Herzog Man Professional Adventure Experience

Between the amateur and the professional ... there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization ... A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom. By Bernard Devoto Professional Amateur Kind Difference Degree

Amateurs do things 'till they get it right. Pros do it 'till they can't get it wrong. By Steven Jackson Till Amateurs Things Pros Wrong

One trouble: to be a professional anything in the United States is to think of oneself as an expert and one's ideas as semisacred, and to treat others in a certain way - professionally. By Marge Piercy Professionally United States Trouble Semisacred

What about regular professionals, who just want to do what they do as well as they can? By Atul Gawande Professionals Regular

You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual. By Gillian Armstrong Rarely World Individual Professional Chance

The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong. By Julie Andrews Edwards Works Anateur Wrong Professional

The amateurs discuss tactics: the professionals discuss logistics By Napoleon Bonaparte Tactics Logistics Discuss Amateurs Professionals

Amateurs train until they get it right. Professionals train until they cannot get it wrong. By Jose N. Harris Amateurs Train Professionals Wrong

I'm an amateur at life. I'll let you know when I go pro. By D. Vonthaer Life Amateur Pro

Let a man practice the profession which he best knows. By Marcus Tullius Cicero Man Practice Profession

Professionals use their powers for good and write code that others can understand. By Robert C. Martin Professionals Understand Powers Good Write