Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.
It is by now beyond question that Elton John is a competent and classy entertainer. Few people who have achieved his popularity have succeeded in maintaining his standards for performance and professionalism.
The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.
What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism.
Whether or not your values are operational is crucially determined by whether or not there are consequences for noncompliance.
What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining.
Professionalism in tennis. . . only resulted in making billionaires out of rude children, producing an onslaught of moody defectors, and a lot of guys with hair that looks as if bats slept in it. . . Meanwhile, my head swims with the thought that I have watched tennis progress from Don Budge and Alice Marble to Farrah Fawcett becoming John McEnroe's mother-in-law.
My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.
Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.
I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play.
The night schedule is a crazy pit I fall into most of the time, but I do like it because the buzz of normal professionalism has gone away. Even though you're working, you feel like you're playing.
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone.
I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.
Over 95% of the designers who have ever lived are alive today. Together, we have the power to define what professionalism in the communications industry will be about: helping increase market share or helping repair the World.
Gerald Green is a fine Coach and Trainer, I have every confidence in his professionalism.
We have standards. Anybody with the kind of journalism experience and professionalism that you have displayed over these years can not work for my program.
What you do with your billable time determines your current income, but what you do with your non-billable time determines your future.
Without professionalism I'd be an amateur, and the clients I want don't hire amateurs.
