Professionals Quotes

“Let me be brutally honest. Being an insider, I know exactly how these MBA guys think. And because I know who they really are, I have nothing but utter contempt for these professionals. Now you might think I am stereotyping and generalizing. Yes, I am, indeed. But get this thing straight. Only highly competitive people prepare for these entrance exams to these top-notch B-schools. Only those who have excessive cupidity for money, power and status, only such people enter these highly reputed management colleges. These people don’t have friends, instead, they have connections. It’s all about Moolah. It’s all about usefulness. You scratch my back, and I will scratch yours. You be my ladder, and I will be yours.”
― Abhaidev, The World's Most Frustrated Man

“Maybe that's when bad scripts are written, when you choose the theme first. I consider that I've something to say when I've thought of a person, a moment, a single beat of the heart, that I think is true and interesting, and therefore should be seen.”
― Russell T. Davies, Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale

“Experts were once amateurs who kept practicing.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“As professionals , the odds were in our favor, or so we believed.”
― Floyd C. Forsberg, The Toughest Prison of All

“It was the end of the era of the amateur, a time when everyone had to be a bit of everything. You helped your neighbors build their homes, fight their fires, raise and butcher and preserve their own food. You knew how to repair a weapon, pull a tooth, hammer a horseshoe, and deliver a child. But industrialization fostered specialization—and it was fantastic. Trained pros were better than self-taught amateurs, and their expertise allowed them to demand and develop better tools for their crafts—tools that only they knew how to operate. Over time, a subtle cancer spread: where you have more experts, you create more bystanders. Professionals did all the fighting and fixing we used to handle ourselves; they even took over our fun, playing our sports while we sat back and watched.”
― Christopher McDougall, Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance

“Learning without implementation is arrogance.”
― Richie Norton

“Now students all seem to be converging on the same self, the successful upper-middle-class professional, impersonating the adult they've already decided they want to become.”
― William Deresiewicz

“Ordinary professionals focus on giving worthless advises; extra-ordinary professionals focus on giving results.”
― Ashish Patel

“We sacrifice our youth in order to gain needed experience. When we gain experience, we continue to grind just as hard as we did during our apprenticeships.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“So these two classes, rising professionals and sinking workers, which a couple of generations ago were close in income and not so far apart in mores, no longer believe they belong to the same country. But they can’t escape each other, and their coexistence breeds condescension, resentment, and shame.”
― George Packer

“AI doesn’t create illiterate professionals—complacency does. Those who rely on AI without understanding its logic risk becoming spectators rather than thinkers.”
― Abhysheq Shukla

“What exactly is meant by the quaint and popular term professional? Does not the very word imply a superior class of people? Couldn't we apply this definition to farmers, or truckdrivers, or janitors, or factory workers, or butchers, or bakers, or any of the other anonymous classes of laborers? By bestowing such a title on certain fortunate groups such as doctors and lawyers, aren't we suggesting that what they provide is of a special importance? Aren't more imagined responsibilities being attributed to them in order to justify the undeniable reality of their superior rights and perquisites? Or are we simply recognizing the fact that they are paid far more than what we kindly refer to as 'employees?”
― Donald Jeffries, The Unreals

“People wishes their friends to be in politics, but their sons in professions.”
― Amit Kalantri

“As more medical professionals get smart meter sickness, the utility and government smart meter cover-up just gets so much harder for the vested corporate interests!”
― Steven Magee

“what makes a professional is not merely an academic excellence; it is in the possession of the relevant virtues related to the professional's area of expertise.”
― Michael Quansah, 21 Virtues every Professional must Possess: Unleashing The Moral Climate Of Doing Business

“Professionals and good Samaritans, once be the gardener of the nation, would root up corruption.”
― Vikrmn, You By You

“The professionals constitute only a business conception, not the welfare devotion since that formulates the voluntary way for the entire humans; however, one cannot comprehend and infiltrate that, within the professionals”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“While routine and mundane jobs may be ridiculed or looked down upon in some circles, the fact is that these jobs provide livelihood to millions of people. A good information technology company in India employs thousands of professionals every year giving them decent salaries. However, in fields such as politics, writing, cinema or arts, there are very few people who come on top, and those who do, end up taking home almost all the rewards, leaving little for the runners-up or the bottom rankers.”
― Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness

“I have great respect for surgeons, but for mental health professionals...not so much.”
― Steven Magee

“professionals who know what they are doing can "be counted on to follow a well-thought-out methodology”
― Raymond Khoury, The Sign

“all pros have "drive. Ambition. And the cold, rational ability to compartmentalize tragedies...and carry on.”
― Raymond Khoury, The Sign

“Rene Neyrey is a well-established Financial Advisor who has been a member of the American Society of Financial Services Professionals since 1986.”
― Rene Neyrey

“The educated man has his own ignorance in this tendency to view all life in light of his own expertise. Just as a blue lens makes the yellow sun look blue, or a pink lens makes the green grass appear pink, or a yellow lens makes the blue sea seem yellow, one's field of profession gives influence to his perception of reality; and while that is harmless in some cases, in such that the sea is already blue before peering through a blue lens, wisdom is knowing when to humbly remove the specs in order to see the spectacle as it really is.”
― Criss Jami

“The relationship between preachers and professionals is that preachers reveal God's mind while professionals execute it but on a different platform.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“Is the online promotion that they post & share...the only thing professional about them? Consider looking beyond the advertising to see if there is substance, experience and authority to match the marketing claims.”
― Loren Weisman

“Equilibrium is a team of professionals who have the experience of participating in various roles within organizations such as Solution Providers, Distribution, and Manufacturers (OEM/ISV’s). This experience has enabled our team to be embedded in the processes, understand the actual value, and turn our years of combined experiences into programs that enable organizations to think differently than their competitors.”
― Equilibrium Consulting

“As professionals, we must learn to look across industries to gather insights and identify trends before they impact us.”
― Jen Alvares

“The career coaching industry can only expand. Whether or not the economy improves. And this is because the corporate world has changed. Today, in the wake of the last recession, companies are intent on being permanently lean; they churn people in and out as needed, so that the average executive or professional can expect to hold—what?—about ten or eleven jobs in a lifetime whether he or she wants to or not. And it’s interesting, isn’t it, that our society is so unprepared for this change. College, for example, prepares people for jobs, but not for the trauma of job change.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

“Capitalism, as Marx observed—with surprising admiration for its dynamism—never promised stability, and it’s been a generation since blue-chip companies like IBM offered their white-collar workers a job for life. As the best-seller Who Moved My Cheese advises, dislocated professionals must learn to adapt to new flavors of cheese as the old ones are taken away. But when skilled and experienced people routinely find their skills unwanted and their experience discounted, then something has happened that cuts deep into the very social contract that holds us together.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

“If anyone can testify credibly to the decline of the American dream, it is the white-collar unemployed—the people who “played by the rules,” “did everything right,” and still ended up in ruin.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream