Professional Work Quotes:

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

- Bill Frakes

topic: Professional Work, Differentiate

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

- Julie Andrews

topic: Professional Work

Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Careers, Inspirational Determination, Inspirational Father, Inspirational Hard Work, Inspirational Passion

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Top Management, Marketing And Sales

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

- Alistair Cooke

source: Alistair Cooke (2012). “Reporting America”, p.14, The Overlook Press

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Work Day, Professional Work

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

- Michael Jordan

source: "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Best Success

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

- Lou Holtz

topic: Motivational, Basketball, Sports, Inspirational Coaching, Professional Career

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

- Confucius

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Daily Work, Young Entrepreneurs

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

- Tony Dorsett

source: Tony Dorsett, Harvey Frommer (1989). “Running tough: memoirs of a football maverick”, Doubleday Books

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Sports Spirit, Professional Career

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

- Robert Kiyosaki

topic: Past, Way, Study, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

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

- Jon Stewart

topic: Careers, Looks, Want, Professional Career, Professional Work

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

- Bobby Unser

topic: Motivational, Positive, Men, Professional Career, Professional Work

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

- Alan Kay

topic: Worry, Way, Live By, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Best Success, About Success

Amateurs hope. Professional work.

- Garson Kanin

topic: Professional Work

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.

- Didi Conn

topic: Summer, Teacher, Jobs, Professional Work, Troupe

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.

- Thomas Szasz

source: "The Second Sin". Book by Thomas Szasz, 1973.

topic: Passivity Is, Roles, World, Professional Work

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?

- Bill Gates

source: "Rebel Code: Linus Torvalds, Open Source, and the War for the Soul of Software" by Glyn Moody, www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2001.

topic: Professional Work

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.

- Noam Chomsky

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

topic: Self, Done, Fields, Professional Work, Self Taught

Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.

- Robert M. Hutchins

topic: Education, Football, Years, Professional Work, Four Years

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.

- Keith Rothfus

topic: People, Gone, Done, Professional Work, Negotiating

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.

- Sigmund Freud

source: Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

topic: Work, Mean, Reality, Professional Work

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

- Whitfield Diffie

topic: People, Distinction, Professional Work

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.]

- Isambard Kingdom Brunel

topic: Law, Bridges, Errors, Professional Work, Civil Engineer

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.

- Hershel Shanks

source: Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

topic: Historical, Done, Littles, Professional Work