Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.

A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.

Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.

When trust improves, the mood improves.

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

Hope is the raw material of losers.

But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well.

And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.

And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility.

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.

I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.

It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.

I am committed to ensure that our intelligence community, law enforcement, medical professionals, and military have the information and funding needed to protect the American people from threats at home and abroad.

We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.

Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood.

I love mixing amateurs and professionals.

Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.

A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.

For this reason, it is essential that our Nation's rural transportation professionals be provided with the necessary tools and support to promote and showcase the value, benefits, and accomplishments of rural transportation planning and development.

We are going to see a tremendous number of health professionals retire over the next 8-10 years. We are not doing nearly enough to deal with this problem.

We're talking about people who've already got 3-4, if not 5-6 years' experience or more, and it's about trying to help professionals develop, using us as a resource for that development.

No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted.

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.

There are great amateur bodies that have good programs right from the grassroots level to professionals.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

And most countries are now reducing the number of conscripts and increasing the professionals that are available because they're available on short notice.

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

The workplace should have a place where the kids can visit. They should have places at the mother's or the father's work where professionals can have their kids visit them whenever they feel like it.

The professionals are going to be joined by the average Joe. Everybody's a publisher.

Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals out there who buy my devices at whole sale price.

We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.

In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.

IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.

Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.

But day in and day out, the most stimulating part of the work is being a member of a team of so many very bright, articulate and talented professionals.

I had such a good time working with John Woo and John Travolta, and it was so professional. I want to work with people who are real professionals.