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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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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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Thanksgiving Day
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Curiosity…endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. – Alistair Cooke

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Curiosity
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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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Golf
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An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past. – Tom Hopkins

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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. – Harold MacMillan

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Professionalism

Whats an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesnt know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesnt admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesnt really know how much. – Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

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Through all the employments of life each neighbor abuses his brother; whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another. – John Gay

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When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isnt that the best position from which to pray? – Ethel Barrymore

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I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people! – John Glover

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The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop. – Edward Conklin

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