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Quote by Alistair Cooke
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesnt

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesnt feel like it. – Alistair Cooke

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Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill scoured by a whiff of arrogance. – Alistair Cooke

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It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. – Alistair Cooke

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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and its charming. – Edgar Degas

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

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