Amateur feed on hope. Professionals work.
If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you'll develop skills that other professionals don't have.
Amateurs go broke taking large losses, professionals go broke taking small profits.
We're baseball players. We don't need guys telling us, 'Hey, you need to hurry. Hey, you need to do this. Hey, you need to step up. ' We are professionals, we can do that without anybody telling us. I'm OK with it, but we need to do it on our own.
I love mixing amateurs and professionals.
Clearly [Donald] Trump likes the way business executives and generals think and talk much more than policy professionals.
Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs.
The amateurs discuss tactics: the professionals discuss logistics
Professionals who are prayerful and productive are indispensable!
Academics are mostly professionals, involved in their work and other concerns of their own, with no particular interest in the workings of the ideological system.
I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. The would be whatever they needed to be that day: information professionals, teachers, police, community organizers, computer technicians, historians, confidantes, clerks, social workers, storytellers, or, in this case, guardians of my peace.
India's place in the sun would come from the partnership between wisdom of its rural people and skill of its professionals
I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.
In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity.
I didn't notice I was being set upon by a pickpocket, which I am glad of, because I like to work only with professionals.
One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and the unskilled. These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country.
Unless an investor has access to 'incredibly high-qualified professionals,' they should be 100 percent passive - that includes almost all individual investors and most institutional investors.
We are going to see a tremendous number of health professionals retire over the next 8-10 years. We are not doing nearly enough to deal with this problem.
Music isn't just for professionals. We delegate all of our music and our dancing and our art to professionals. It's silly. We should be doing our own dancing and drawing.
And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.
