I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
Edward Appleton

Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.
Jahangir Khan

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.
Jon Porter

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
Michael Caine

At first we got along real well. Now... it's pretty much just a professional relationship.
Jose Carreras

As a professional, I think we're not being judged solely on technical ability anymore. People really want to be entertained and enjoy what they're watching.
Kristi Yamaguchi

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
Harold Ramis

You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap.
Ice T

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
Camille Paglia

It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.
Sugar Ray Leonard

I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame.
Ethel Merman

The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.
Frank Shorter

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.
Elizabeth Blackwell

You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to stop the guy you're playing, they pay you millions of dollars. You get you a TV and break the player down yourself.
Karl Malone

I always thought after 2002 that I'd hang up my skates and turn professional and just go on tour and do shows. But I don't know when it is enough. I mean, I still enjoy it. I'm the luckiest girl alive that I get to perform in front of thousands of people, do what I love doing.
Michelle Kwan

I love snowboarding, but I would never want to do it competitively or at a professional level. Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion.
Tony Hawk

I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I would sign on for a year with a view to becoming a professional.
Harold Larwood

In the 1920s, Wall Street was a world that was really dominated by professional speculators and stock pools. These people had a monopoly over information.
Ron Chernow

First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.
Bo Jackson

The time has come for professional jurors.
Joseph Wambaugh