Top 25 Turning Pro Quotes
#1. Ty Tryon made a lot of money after turning pro, but he might not have been ready. I don't want to make a lot of money for a couple of months and then not be ready.
Michelle Wie
#2. Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.
Billy Bob Thornton
#3. And a moment that ought to have lasted for ever
Has come and gone before I knew.
Li Shang-yin
#4. I love college football and I love pro football. This is how fair-weathered I am. I used to be a Giants fan, but my son who's turning 12 has really gotten into football, and he likes the Jets, so I totally jumped ships so we can root for the same team.
Chris Bauer
#5. I try to avoid Twitter. I occasionally can't resist the siren call of email.
Diablo Cody
#6. I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.
Pam Grier
#7. I wrote in the 'War of Art' that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.
Steven Pressfield
#8. The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process: I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult.
Beth Gibbons
#9. Men who are afraid to feel must keep women around to do their feeling for them while dismissing us for the same supposedly "inferior" capacity to feel deeply. But in this way also, men deny themselves their own essential humanity, becoming trapped in dependency and fear.
Audre Lorde
#10. You have to be willing to risk things; otherwise, somebody else will put you out of business.
Douglas Leone
#11. Disquietude that springs from the fundamental nature of being a human being is vaster and more encompassing than depression, which has a cause and therefore a cure.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#12. Like a bottle of wine or a promising college quarterback turning pro, C.E.O.'s are similar to what economists call experience goods: you commit to a price long before you know if they're worth it.
Adam Davidson
#13. It's not that I haven't given it (turning pro) careful thought, it's just that I am torn as to which course I should take. There is no need to rush. I won't be consulting anybody about this and I will do things my own way.
Shizuka Arakawa
#14. There's no mystery to turning pro. It's a decision brought about by an act of will. We make up our minds to view ourselves as pros and we do it. Simple as that.
Steven Pressfield
#15. When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come.
Oswald Spengler
#17. He studies me thoughtfully. "You are a beautiful queen, Elisa," he says voice pitched low.
I never expected he would say such a thing. "A month or two of pastries will fix that," I say. Then I smile to show him I mean it flippantly.
His expression does not change. "Even then.
Rae Carson
#18. If you do not believe you are a lost sheep, then you do not need a Savior who is the Good Shepherd Jesus Christ. John 10:11-14.
Felix Wantang
#19. My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.
Tiger Woods
#20. As the temperature drops, the need for heating oil goes up.
Christopher Dodd
#22. Before turning pro, I would never have just left my skates sitting in the locker room unattended.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#23. I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.
Dustin Hoffman
#24. The professional loves it so much he dedicates his life to it. He commits full-time. That's what I mean when I say turning pro. Resistance hates it when we turn pro.
Steven Pressfield
#25. Turning pro is like kicking a drug habit or stopping drinking. It's a decision, a decision to which we must re-commit every day.
Steven Pressfield