Quotes about Professional
Your family is what counts, and you must always remember that as you get caught up in your own professional responsibilities.
— John Wooden
Our vocation and professional work is not a second class activity, something we do just to put food on the table. It is the high calling for which we were originally created. The way we serve a Creator God is by being creative with the talents and gifts He has given us.
— Nancy Pearcey
On every stem, on every leaf ... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun 'at work' and getting paid for it!
— Zig Ziglar
A pilgrim is a fellow-traveler on the spiritual journey, not a professional guide.
— Philip Yancey
Perhaps I should have been one [some sort of a professional religious]; I like to think a monk notable for his austerities, the voice of one crying in the wilderness; but more probably a tiresome Unitarian in Walsall who writes incessantly to the local paper.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
What Mr Chivery thought of these things, or how much or how little he knew about them, was never gathered from himself. It has been already remarked that he was a man of few words; and it may be here observed that he had imbibed a professional habit of locking everything up.
— Charles Dickens
Men can comfortably claim credit for what they do as long as they don't veer into arrogance. For women, taking credit comes at a real social and professional cost.
— Sheryl Sandberg
observant but not compulsive" and the absence of a belief in a God who would punish us for disobedience would go on to become cornerstones of my personal and professional life.
— Harold S. Kushner
The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.
— Peter Drucker
Similarly, a primary objective for Christian educators and a major task of professional pastors, if not the foremost task, should be the wholesale elimination of condemnation and anti-intellectualism from the local church.
— Dallas Willard
Today there is no foundation. Ultimately what rules in a discipline today is the social pressure of the best professional opinion, and that changes.
— Dallas Willard