Professional Conduct Quotes

Ethics or simple honesty is the building blocks upon which our whole society is based, and business is a part of our society, and it's integral to the practice of being able to conduct business, that you have a set of honest standards.

I have a policy that I don't actually watch the work that I do. There are all kinds of reasons to do that, but one really interesting side effect that has come about from that is that I have no imagery of the show that isn't from first-person.

I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.

Most of the guys in the NFL would sit here and tell you we don't condone the abuse of a child, any sort of abuse of a woman, breaking rules, failing drug tests, or doing any of those things. We hold ourselves to a very high standard.

If I'm working with you for several months on things, if I have a relationship with you, and I decide one day I'm going to sue you, I'm a country boy at the end of the day. I'm going to pick up the phone and tell you I'm going to sue you.

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

Ethics are a key issue, and they're a key issue on the Democratic side, and all people have to be held to high standards.

A profession is a body of men who voluntarily measure their work by a higher standard than their clients demand. To be professionally acceptable, a policy must be sound as well as salable. Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.

I've just been fired over the phone by Yahoo's chairman of the board.

As players we have to be careful what we put out there and make sure everything we do is appropriate. And it is not always easy.

No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is.

Is there Gawker ethics? I mean, I guess there's Gawker ethics. It's a dangerous thing to talk about.

It's not like I ride a broom into interviews. I don't hang upside down with a cape on.

I rather create better music and let that talk, than me going out and dissing other musicians in public.

The highest standards of conduct must be met by everyone in the NFL because it is a privilege to represent the NFL, not a right.

I've acted professionally since I was 16.

We in the Senate refer to Sen. Gillibrand as the hottest member.

I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.

I’ve never felt that his private life was the way to judge him. We should judge a president by the way he performs as president.

To be a successful boxer, the last thing you need to be doing is turning up to the gym stoned. You're going to get beaten up if you do that.

I knew I needed to keep my nose clean and set the right example.

He thinks about his teacher in his literary class, he's staring at her legs.

Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.

Never have public feuds with anyone who's surrounded by people who carry guns.

Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.