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How to use the word professional in a Sentence? Page #33

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The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

– Leo Rosten

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A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles ... an amateur promoter, a glad-hander, embryo Rotarian, caf-society leader, quiz kid or man about town. A student is a person who is learning to fulfill his powers and to find ways of using them in the service of mankind.

– Harold Taylor

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A professional is someone who can do his best when he doesn't feel like it.

– Alistair Cooke

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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

– Bette Davis

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America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

– Evan Esar

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Get rid of imagined guilt. You did the best you could at the time, all things considered. If you made mistakes, learn to accept that we are all imperfect. Only hindsight is 20-20. If you are convinced that you have real guilt, consider professional or spiritual counseling (with a competent and trustworthy counselor). If you believe in God a pastor can help you believe also in God's forgiveness.

– Amy Hillyard Jensen

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The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

– Alan Simpson

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Between the amateur and the professional...there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization...A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.

– Bernard De Voto

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I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.

– Frank Deford

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Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.

– T. J. Hoover

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Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man.

– Ralph J. Smith

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