We will also have a more rigorous approach to professional development and managing unsatisfactory performance.
I always say, 'Thank goodness 'Wimpy Kid' was a comedy because my singing in that was more humorous than professional.'
Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.
You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you're not 'professional' any more.
Even the small amount of infamy I have makes me uncomfortable - on a personal level and on a professional level.
I've always wanted to be a professional dancer, I'd always wanted to be a ballerina. I trained for 13 years but it never came to be.
Everything is changing in squash. Lots of television coverage and the game has become very professional.
Professionally, when I did the Olympic games and sang for my country in Australia. It was a big moment, Sydney in 2000. It was just a brilliant moment in my life.
Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.
The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.
I have a harder time finding somebody. The problem is we were growing professionally during the years most people were concentrating on being a person.
Photography is a hobby born out of my time in undergrad at USC. It is more of a pleasurable hobby, a stress reliever. I don't consider it a professional endeavor like acting or directing.
My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it.
Rocket Raccoon: Quit smiling, ya idiot, you're suppose to be professional.
Malky: Hey Stan, Stan! What are doing? He's dead! Stansfield: But he ruined my suit.
In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue.
In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something else. I'm going to be a professional gentleman of leisure.
Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.'
I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.
