professional

I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.

I don't believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional, and it is all personal.

If you are on social media, and you are not learning, not laughing, not being inspired or not networking, then you are using it wrong.

My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence.

If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?

It's not a bad thing fighting for equality and helping the poor. It's not a bad thing to have on your professional tombstone: 'He believed in equality and he helped the poor.'

Are you joining a conversation or taking it over? Stay aware of how you join a conversation and of your effect on a conversation.

In the balance of my professional life, I've had the privilege of the working as a practicing lawyer and teacher.

Credentials are critical if you want to do something professional. If you want to become a doctor or lawyer or teacher or professor, there is a credentialing process. But there are a lot of other things where it's not clear they're that important.

You can play professional lacrosse, but they make less than a teacher's salary now. I always thought about that. And it's a very difficult career, a short career, as a pro athlete.

One of the gifts of 'Star Trek' is my professional work colleagues have become my lifelong friends.

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.

If I wasn't a professional scientist, I'd be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers.

Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel.

Superconductivity helped broaden my professional phase space. When I started my work, it was already known that magnetic fields could quench superconductivity. I found that the transition was not continuous, that superconductivity was initially enhanced in the presence of magnetic fields, then it would suddenly fall off.

Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

Professional sports are something they can't control.

Playing professional sports, it's important to eat healthy and take care of your body. In the offseason, rest is really important to me.