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“If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.”
Red Adair
“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”
Richard Bach
“Professionalism is knowing how to do it, when to do it, and doing it.”
Frank Tyger
“The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.”
Dave Barry
“To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases.”
William Osler
“All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.”
William Bernbach
“I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.”
Rose F. Kennedy
“No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics.”
Irving R. Kaufman
“They expect a professional presentation, so they expect to see a ''professional.'' Dress appropriately for the occasion, but don't be one of the crowd.”
Wess Roberts
“No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation”
Horace