Definition of Professional
Professional
Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct.
Engaged in by professionals; as, a professional race; -- opposed to amateur.
A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a professional worker.
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Professional Quotations
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson
I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.
George Carlin
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. Thompson
You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.
Joe Paterno
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
Richard Bach
Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.
Ogden Nash
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
Evelyn Waugh
So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.
Brett Favre
So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.
Sidney Poitier
The major championships have always been a special focus in my career, and as a professional, I think Augusta is where I need to be.
Tiger Woods
Professional Translations
professional in Afrikaans is professioneel
professional in Danish is erhvervs-
professional in Dutch is professioneel, beroeps-
professional in French is pro
professional in German is professionell
professional in Italian is professionista, per lavoro
professional in Portuguese is profissional
professional in Spanish is profesional
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