1.
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
2.
What you do with your billable time determines your current income, but what you do with your non-billable time determines your future.
David Maister
3.
To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in the pursuit of your ideal. You require absolute control and professionalism.
Yehudi Menuhin
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Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
Ogden Nash
5.
My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.
David Fincher
6.
The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.
Elaine Morgan
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Without professionalism I'd be an amateur, and the clients I want don't hire amateurs.
David Airey
8.
Success comes from doing what you enjoy. If you don't enjoy it, how can it be called success?
David Maister
9.
It occurred to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
Don DeLillo
10.
We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.
Felix Frankfurter
11.
Whether or not your values are operational is crucially determined by whether or not there are consequences for noncompliance.
David Maister
12.
Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind.
Kedar Joshi
13.
I was most impressed with the professionalism of our soldiers stationed there, and I am now more confident than ever that that the operations at Guantanamo are being conducted in a humane and necessary manner.
Jim Ryun
14.
Long, flat expanses of professionalism bother me. I'd rather have a band that could explode at any time.
Neil Young
15.
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.
Jon Stewart
16.
When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.
Tim Berners-Lee
17.
Gerald Green is a fine Coach and Trainer, I have every confidence in his professionalism.
Dottie Walters
18.
When did you feel most fulfilled? When did you impress yourself, or otherwise feel most proud of yourself?
David Maister
19.
I do feel as if my own music as quite flawed, and it's that frailty or lack of technical proficiency that goes hand-in-hand with some sort of professionalism.
Justin Broadrick
20.
What worries me is the professionalism of everything.
Irvine Welsh
21.
I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.
Brittany Murphy
22.
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.
Jon Landau