There's no set time or schedule for developing one's skills as a professional golfer, and it certainly doesn't come overnight. It's a muscle-memory exercise that comes over time.
There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.
Amateurs hope. Professional work.
As professional cricketers, we have to ensure that we are battle-ready all the time.
Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.
The children-my own and other people's-became the passion of my personal and professional life.
What is necessary is to teach each class and profession the importance of the others. All together form one mighty body; labourer, peasant, and professional man.
I didn't expect to see Kim, but I'm gonna be professional when I really just want to sock her in the face
A considreable portion of my high school trigonometry course was devoted to the solution of oblique triangles. . . I have still not had an excuse for using my talents for solving oblique triangles. If a professional mathematician never uses these dull techniques in a highly varied career, why must all high school students devote several weeks to the subject?
I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.
Saying 'no' or even 'stop' is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team.
I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.
. . . we weren't very professional; she could have gone to almost any town and put together a smoother ensemble, but we were pioneers, and professional musicians probably wouldn't have come up with what we did. . . professional musicians probably wouldn't have given Janis Joplin the space to be herself, which was probably our greatest gift to her
The notion that I do my work here, now, like this, even when I do not feel like it, and especially when I do not feel like it, is very important. Because lots and lots of people are creative when they feel like it, but you are only going to become a professional if you do it when you don't feel like it. And that emotional waiver is why this is your work and not your hobby.
Its great grass at Anfield, professional grass.
Mort Meskin was a consummate professional, dedicated to his work. A great talent.
I built my own studio. I don't have the professional language to describe it because I'm not a videographer - but I'm a technician. So I get the camera, I get all the things that translate the camera to the computer, I set up a live session, I do the security on it, I set up a background so I can key it out, like newscasters do, and replace it with whatever I want - and I can be anywhere I need to be.
Any profession should have norms around the issue you raise. And, in the words of the great economic thinker Albert Hirschman, we all owe a measure of loyalty to professional norms. But when the norms seem unhelpful or unproductive, one needs to speak up - to activate voice. And in the extreme, if the profession and one's colleagues seem estranged from a thoughtfully selected course of action, you need to consider the possibility of exit. Of course, if you knowingly violate norms or laws, you need to be prepared to face the consequences - or to lead a revolution!
There are more than enough people with serious mental issues who really do need professional help without all the other Toms, Dicks and Harriets rushing to the therapist's couch.
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.