I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
When you have police officers like Office Encinia who is a trained professional, who is trained to de-escalate a situation where a motorist may not be in the best of moods because of an encounter that they're having with you, you are trained to respond differently.
If you are asked an overly invasive or personal question, you have the right to refuse to answer. Likewise, if you research a professional opportunity and it doesn't feel right, or if you are not being offered payment for your professional services, that may be a sign that you should consider saying no.
Always, always lead by example. Those whom you lead will be quick to grasp the true identity of a truly professional NCO and will be more willing to follow, obey and persevere.
I've always been more in control of my professional life than my personal life. Although I'm a strong woman, when I fall in love I just give myself 100 percent. I become secondary.
Rent' was my first professional job, ever.
Protecting the city is my job, which doesn't translate into hatred. This is war, and in most wars, professional soldiers don't hate the enemy. Hatred can blind you in ways that mar your judgment.
America is incredibly professional and corporate.
I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.
I still consider myself to be an amateur filmmaker. And I say that because in the Latin origin of the word amateur is the word love, and it's love of a form, whereas professional implies something you do for money or for work.
Just because you have star power and a huge marketing budget, you can see from some professional web series, it doesn't equal views.
There's always this assumption that you're going to get everything right immediately. And any professional understands that that's just not so.
It's reducing my entire professional career and background to this one word [mistress].
The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
I wanted to avoid service, because I was on the road to becoming a professional basketball player.
The effect of every sort of New Deal is to increase and prosper the criminal class. It teaches precisely what all professional criminals believe, to wit, that, it is neither virtuous nor necessary to suffer and to do without.
I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life.
Mostly, it's flattering to meet fans. As long as it's in a planned, professional meeting, rather than, say, someone dropping by my home, which is not as pleasant.
Before I met Jesus I wanted to be a professional pool player.
I think your personal evolution runs hand in hand with your professional evolution. Performance and the person you are kind of grow simultaneously.