A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
Interpretation
A true professional excels in their work even when not motivated or inspired.
This quote emphasizes the essence of professionalism as the ability to perform at one's best regardless of personal feelings or circumstances. It suggests that true dedication and skill in one's field is demonstrated by the capacity to push through reluctance or lack of motivation to deliver quality work.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to inspire employees when facing challenges.
More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in the tape-recorded reminiscenses of old champs, and which - in the hands of someone like Herb Wind - can become a piece of war correspondence as artfully controlled as Alan Morehead's account of Gallipoli.
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There's not a lot you can do about the national economy but there is a lot you can do about your personal economy.
Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.
Are you better off today than you were four years ago?
Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.
I wasn't going to be one of those people who died wondering what if? I would keep putting my dreams to the test - even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.
You've got to remember what your priorities are. When you're playing, what u do on the field is the most important thing.
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