Top 297 Pros And Cons Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I'm blessed that I can leave it to the pros at work and red-carpet events, because I can't say I'm adept. Still, I'm definitely not afraid to take chances when it comes to beauty.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

I'm a great believer that you cannot have enough senior pros around your dressing room.

As lots of us ex-pros know, you are a long time retired and there comes a stage when you would give anything to be back out there playing.

I've been playing in L.A. for a long time through college and pros, just to be ready. It's different out here.

Vision is easy. Ideas are even easier. It's execution that separates the amateurs from the pros.

Most college athletes are obsessed with getting to the pros, and many of them have proved they will do anything to get there, even if it's something unethical.

LSU fans have descended upon Dallas and reminded us of this truth: when it comes to partying, they're the pros and we're all amateurs.

The whole family is a bunch of dangerous freaks...Most are ex-cons or junkies or deranged from inbreeding. Five have died violently, three are back in prison, two have gone insane from untreated venereal disease, and one writes book reviews.

Ex-cons always say, "You never know what makes the wheels go round until you've done time in the joint." This is even more true of psychiatric hospitals. It is a perfect mass hypostatization of society, the organization of the Social Lie.

Ballroom is its own entity, its own sport. And I have the most respect for what the pros do.

Well, I think it's pretty much established that I just didn't have any interest in coaching in the pros.

That's what distinguishes the pros from people involved in amateur theatre. You just go out and do it again and again.

Our job as pros is to walk a very fine line: be the best but stay healthy so you can continue to progress and be at the top. You can't push the sport and yourself if you're always hurt.

Because Comic Con in San Diego is crazy, and it's very commercialized, and it's corporate, and it's all about money and selling, selling, selling... I think people want to go to smaller, specialized cons.

There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars.

Eighteen years ago, my left knee I hurt. I've never had a knee injury in the pros.

I want to keep getting all-pros, keep stacking them.

I think we're all pros. If we go out there and just play basketball the right way, everything is gonna work itself out.

My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectly with the comic-con crowd.

You named them: hustlers, killers, fiends, ex-cons. I called them: cousins, aunts, pops, moms. To you? Hoodlums, crackheads, gunmens. To me? Just neighbors, classmates, young friends.

Most voters assume because these political 'pros' are on TV or write for national papers, they know politics. Sadly, most don't have a clue.

All these pros are getting better every day. You just want to catch up to them.

I am a big, big geek at heart and a Sci-fi fan. And I love the Comic-Cons.

I just follow great people. If you want to play like a pro, you learn from the pros.

The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.

I don't know if there were many pros for me playing early. I feel like I dug myself a pretty deep hole that rookie year.

Pros like myself played football not for money or glory, but for the simplest reason: the love of the game.

I have a long way to catch up. I have to start with the pros this year, about 20 seconds back.

I started out in a kid’s backyard playing touch football and I never abandoned the principle when I got to the pros: if they can’t touch you, they can’t tackle you.

The boos and critical words from sports writers affect pros more than anyone else.

I watch golf, just looking at the pros, and I'm in awe of how they play. Not one particular player - maybe all the players.

I was playing 60, 70 matches a year in college. In the pros, unless you're winning, you're not playing that many.

[When I happen to] read interviews where people are such pros and they come out looking so good, [it comes off as] a little smug or something.

I love my climbing shoes. Virtually all of my big solos have been in the TC Pros. They are the most important thing when I'm soloing.

The guy who enters pro sports hasn't run scared from the 7th grade on. Until he enters the pros, it's been nothing but roses.

You know honestly, I enjoy working with everyone because remember, these were all real pros that had been around the business a long time.

In the pros, tennis is all about individuals. In college, it's getting individuals to make points for the team.

When I entered the pros, I was a young kid in the major leagues. I was 18 years old, right out of high school. I thought I knew everything, and I clearly didn't.

I learned English from American pros. That's why I speak so bad. I call it PGA English.

I had always suspected that trying to play golf in the company of big-time pros and a gallery would be something like walking naked into choir practice.

The cosplayers are very fun. The kids are the best. Everyone is a kid at a comic con. There are some amazing stuff that goes on at these cons. The people have a blast. It's so neat to see the fans lining up to see you and talk with you. And asking you questions.

I don't really think too much about special effects because that's not really something I can clearly visualize, so I leave that to the pros.

As a young footballer at United, Steve Bruce was one of the senior pros I really admired.

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.

I came to one of the first Comic Cons in 1985, when it was just people trading back issues of comic books.

As one who cons at evening o'er an album all alone, And muses on the faces of the friends that he has known, So I turn the leaves of Fancy, till in shadowy design I find the smiling features of an old sweetheart of mine.

I think a lot of guys think they can do voice acting, but when you hear the pros and they are so great... that's a little intimidating.

And I think it's because good cons are all based on the victim's need, and the successful con artist is the one, I guess, who can exploit that. I remember reading something about this, that one of the great traits of confidence tricksters is the level that they flatter their victim.

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

A lot of the older pros - I won't name names - they need the money and are bitter about the money in modern football.

New sales managers are the forgotten rookie - they were pros at selling, but all of a sudden they're a rookie at management.

I don't really compartmentalize and put players in high school, college, or the pros. For everybody, it's physically and mentally, where are you? How do you evolve? Where's your game at?

Despite all the drawbacks, the Internet provides a wide array of information - and some of it is being watched pretty carefully by the pros.

I like doing my makeup myself! It's a hobby of mine. I like to play around. I've learned all the best tricks from the pros!

In college we didn't pass block the way they do in the pros - they played the I-formation at Wisconsin.

You have no idea the people I meet when I do these Comic-Cons. When I go sign autographs and say hello to people, I see everything!

It's interesting that people who can perpetrate cons have talked themselves into believing that they're not doing anything bad. That they tell themselves that there is nothing wrong with what they're doing is the crazy thing about human behavior.

Three-card monte is one of the most persistent and effective cons in history. The games still pop up along city streets. But we tend to dismiss the victims as rubes.

Putting yourself in a position to observe and work with the pros, whether you are paid or not, is key to helping you make the kinds of strides that set you out in front of the pack.