Top 1200 Quid Pro Quo Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The status quo is more tenacious than anyone would ever imagine. The human mind prefers continuity rather than change. So it really has to be committed to eliminating a bad habit to even start down that path.

Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.

Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.

I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.

In the 1999 resolution regarding Taiwan's future passed by the Democratic Progressive Party, it is stated very clearly that any change to the status quo of Taiwan must be decided by the people of Taiwan through referenda.

I'm a pro at eating. I'll eat four to five times more than a normal person.

The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action - an unconventional business strategy, a unique product-development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign - even as the rest of the world wonders why you're not marching in step with the status quo.

Boston is really a small town, and the pro sports here are almost like a college sport.

When I went pro at 13, I had plenty of sponsors that give me endorsement deals and stuff like that.

It is well known that I am pro-life... but I would not seek to impose my views on the Canadian people.

I quit high school to be a pro skateboarder out of Ohio, which is just asinine, but it was meant to be.

If Senator Obama becomes pro-life then I'll consider giving him my vote.

I’m neither ‘pro-women’ nor ‘anti-men’. I’m just ‘Thumbs up for the six billion

I think pro wrestling doesn't seem to get a lot of mainstream attention until somebody dies.

I'd followed the strange deaths of pro football players for years, sensing something odd going on.

I don't regard myself as any kind of conservative, except conceivably neo, and that word, of course, is a ridiculous appellation, because it's used to describe a group that was ready to make war on the status quo, which is not a conservative position.

I love my iPad Pro and my Apple pencil. They have changed the way I work in really cool ways.

I think if I'd never had found pro wrestling, I'd be a blue collar guy, working a 9-to-5 job.

I had never seen a Pro Wrestling ring until I was maybe around grade 11.

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.

There are... two kinds of people: those who are changing and those who are setting themselves up to be victims of change. As the world continues to march on around us, if I am only maintaining the status quo - if I'm not growing - then I'm falling behind.

It took me a year to make the decision to go pro and skip college and give up that.

Another soldier has been killed. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

The pro-immigration people are really having a fit saying that I don't care about the children.

So when I was told to work, ten, twelve hours a day as an assistant pro, I didn’t complain. It was normal.

If you are pro love, you have to be a little bit disloyal to the romantic feelings that propel you in the early days.

This is classic Donald Trump. This is the movement, not the party. He has been agitating against the leadership, the Washington establishment, the status quo, people who have held power, people that didn`t take on President Barack Obama to the extent he wanted to or the base wants to.

Though you may not have heard much about it, Kushner is working with steadfast focus on advocating for the American people, bringing government and its technology into alignment with the people's needs and finally ending the Washington swamp's status quo.

Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion is by nature disruptive of what has been, giving birth to the eternally new.

Being picked for the Pro Bowl is a feeling I can't describe. I never thought I'd be out here as a rookie, so it's great.

Embrace change as an opportunity to learn, to improve, to make a difference in others' lives as well as in your own. Have the courage to challenge the status quo. Remember that preparation and ambition in combination with opportunity equals success. And have fun!

Pessimism doesn't grow your business or even maintain the status quo. The pessimists on your staff make the job harder for everyone around them. They make difficulties out of opportunities.

When I turned pro, Muhammad Ali was laying back, and I was able to fill up an area that was empty.

a revolutionary in every bedroom cannot fail to shake up the status quo. And if it is your wife that is revolting, you can't just split to the suburbs. Feminism, when it truly achieves it's goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.

If people aren't educated, they can't question. If they can't question, they can't change anything, which is great for the status quo and all the people who can question them at their own level.

I would not change my career to be a pro athlete. A team could trade me and my band cannot!

I didn't make the Pro Bowl until my seventh year I think in the NFL. We continually got better.

I bought an audio technician mic and Pro Tools SE, the demo version and was recording in the basement.

As a pro-business Democrat, I understand the obligations of publicly traded companies to maximize returns to shareholders.

I have fought myself more times that I remember, in the streets, and in the ring. I've never had a pro-fight.

Sprinkle in a bit of pro wrestling in MMA is good. You get the fans talking. They want that drama.

If there was a Mount Rushmore for pro wrestling cities, Chicago and New York would be on there. After that, it's debatable.

Life as a pro is definitely an individual sport. Thankfully that's how I've always been so I like it that way.

I wanted to turn pro at like 12 years old when I was riding for Bones Brigade.

When it's all over I might be able to say I've had the strangest career in pro football history.

There's this incredibly young, dynamic, educated population in Iran that is essentially pretty pro-American.

I've always been politically minded and against the status quo. It's pretty basic when you're brought up, like I was, to hate and fear the police as a natural enemy and to despise the army as something that takes everybody away and leaves them dead somewhere.

The pro-growth policies of Congress have helped created new jobs in the region and across the country.

That's the essence of pro wrestling to me, is the traveling, the road, going from Kalamazoo to the next random town.

Obsessed people are more concerned with obeying God than doing what is expected or fulfilling the status quo. A person who is obsessed with Jesus will do things that don't always make sense in terms of success or wealth on this earth.

You couldn't be satisfied with being an amateur asshole, could you, Jimbo! You had to go and turn pro on me!

I'm a pro-life candidate because I believe that science is proving us right every day.

As a person in the industry, as well as a makeup lover, a lot of times we see brands pressured to do things because of the status quo instead of being genuine and wanting to create and be inclusive. I wouldn't throw the name universal onto my color corrector if it wasn't really that.

This isn’t a game. We don’t want mediocre employees who can keep the status quo. We want souls. We want to win. And you’ve spent most of your time here being mediocre.

If its platform is any guide, the Republican party is staunchly pro-life until you are actually born.

I think health-wise, pro-wrestling is probably ten times worse for you than MMA.

We have to create the ability to police our own communities instead of leaving it in the hands of a system that has never understood us, tried to marginalize and politically assassinate all of our leaders whenever they came to challenge the status quo.

I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.

The natural law is, in essence, a profoundly 'radical' ethic, for it holds the existing status quo, which might grossly violate natural law, up to the unsparing and unyielding light of reason.

I am an unapologetic Christian, constitutional conservative, pro-life, Second Amendment-loving American!