Amateur Quotes

1. "I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University."
Author: Alan Greenspan

2. "Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur."
Author: Alvin Toffler

3. "Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs."
Author: Antonin Scalia

4. "Bunnu was no amateur when it came to escape. And even in his drowsiest moments, he understood implicitly that to forget his circumstances, even for a short while, meant first to forget himself. Who he was and why he was—to strip it all bare and start from scratch, as it were. In his nearly 250 years of life and, now, as an old emaciated man completely estranged from his family and closest friends—albeit more by circumstance than by choice—he understood the importance of this process and revered it, for there were far greater things to be done and achieved in the dark, uncertain areas of existence than in those circumscribed—and thereby strained—by comprehensibility."
Author: Ashim Shanker

5. "I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor."
Author: Ben Affleck

6. "(Quoting her friend Tom Black on an amateur hunter's injury:)"Lion, rifles -- and stupidity."
Author: Beryl Markham

7. "Look, I debate for a living so I don't need to learn any lessons from amateurs."
Author: Bill O'Reilly

8. "I've dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I do for love."
Author: Billy Childish

9. "That's what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way."
Author: Brian Boitano

10. "I never was an amateur wrestler."
Author: Chris Jericho

11. "It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs."
Author: Christopher Moore

12. "I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work."
Author: Chuck Close

13. "...you can't spend all your time alone…alone in your head…alone in your books…it's not healthy. We all need to learn to get along with and be with other people. We need to learn to make friends. It's an important part of life. " ~Dani O'Meara, from the forthcoming amateur sleuth mystery tentatively titled, Dangerous Days for Dani."
Author: Claire A. Murray

14. "The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from 'Why publish this?' to 'Why not?"
Author: Clay Shirky

15. "Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I'd play for nothing. Ab-so-lute-ly free. But that's not the system."
Author: Dan Marino

16. "Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient."
Author: David Coverdale

17. "Anytime you're afraid to try something new...just remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the titanic."
Author: David Drake

18. "Lord Peter was hampered in his career as a private detective by a public school education. Despite Parker's admonitions, he was not always able to discount it. His mind had been warped in its young growth by "Raffles" and "Sherlock Holmes," or the sentiments for which they stand. He belonged to a family which had never shot a fox. 'I am an amateur,' said Lord Peter"
Author: Dorothy L. Sayers

19. "Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be."
Author: Edward Weston

20. "I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones."
Author: Elliott Erwitt

21. "The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read."
Author: Fran Tarkenton

22. "In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs."
Author: Francois Truffaut

23. "Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket."
Author: Frank Woolley

24. "Amateurs hope, professionals work."
Author: Garson Kanin

25. "He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy."
Author: George Orwell

26. "A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells."
Author: Grandma Moses

27. "Every expert began as an amateur."
Author: Jeffrey Fry

28. "Good,' she said. Then she exhaled a long breath and leaned back in her seat. 'I can't believe I just talked to you like that. Ugh. I sounded like someone's mother.' She said "mother" like she was talking about cockroaches or snakes.'It was pretty impressive,' I said. 'I never would have guessed you were an amateur."
Author: Jennifer Sturman

29. "I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer."
Author: Juan Manuel Marquez

30. "I'm an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism."
Author: K. Lee Lerner

31. "We all have an unscientific weakness for being always in the right, and this weakness seems to be particularly common among professional and amateur politicians. But the only way to apply something like scientific method in politics is to proceed on the assumption that there can be no political move which has no drawbacks, no undesirable consequences. To look out for these mistakes, to find them, to bring them into the open, to analyse them, and to learn from them, this is what a scientific politician as well as a political scientist must do. Scientific method in politics means that the great art of convincing ourselves that we have not made any mistakes, of ignoring them, of hiding them, and of blaming others from them, is replaced by the greater art of accepting the responsibility for them, of trying to learn from them, and of applying this knowledge so that we may avoid them in future."
Author: Karl Popper

32. "I love mixing amateurs and professionals."
Author: Lasse Hallstrom

33. "Captain Crawford didn't like the idea of any kind of murder, but he went at it patiently and honestly and with none of the stupidity and bombast and rubber-hose techniques that Los Angeles crime fiction writers had led me to expect. I'd gotten the impression that unless a gifted amateur in love with the lady got himself almost beaten to a pulp and practically inside the lethal gas chamber before he unmasked the venal and brutalized constabulary, any innocent bystander they could get their hands on was a gone duck."
Author: Leslie Ford

34. "Two weeks ago at the U.S. Amateur, my mom caddied, and that is kind of a different feeling, because she's your mom and you have to listen to her. It was really comfortable having my mom there, but it's also really relieving and comfortable to have someone that knows the course off their hat, really."
Author: Lydia Ko

35. "The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own."
Author: Lytton Strachey

36. "Why do most people write poems about nature? For the same reason that every community center is propped up with industrious, self painted landscapes: you have no need of any imagination to simply describe what is around you, and the amateur naturally thinks an idyllic picture is best, not the dirty city around him. What makes van de Waarsenburg special is that he crams a hundred idyllic scenes into a single poem, as if he does not trust a single boathouse would be poetic enough for the reader."
Author: Martinus Hendrikus Benders

37. "I always had the desire to perform. If it wasn't my career now, I'd still be doing amateur dramatics. It's just something you love, and when you get paid to do it, you pinch yourself every day."
Author: Mathew Baynton

38. "The amateur study of philosophy is like taking a few laps with a NASCAR driver. You're not qualified to do it on your own, you have no business behind the wheel, but for a few laps or paragraphs, you're right in there with ‘em, and when it's all over, you've learned something. Or, as my local fire chief once said, you've simply exasperated the situation."
Author: Michael Perry

39. "I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three."
Author: Mickey Rourke

40. "You are trying to lure us into revealing information you're not entitled to? With chocolate and wine? Are you amateurs?"
Author: Moira J. Moore

41. "Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite ‘telescope envy' at gatherings of amateur astronomers."
Author: Neil DeGrasse Tyson

42. "Growing up as an amateur, I wasn't much of a power puncher. I was more of a speed guy."
Author: Nonito Donaire

43. "This music, transmitted by loud-speakers, made a masterpiece appear like an amateurish attempt at composition by nimcompoop"
Author: Paul Hindemith

44. "Les hémorragies cérébrales sont moins fréquentes chez les amateurs et les joueurs de football que chez le reste de la population. Les cerveaux aussi."
Author: Pierre Desproges

45. "I am an amateur mountain climber. Once or twice a year I go off to Chamonix in the French Alps, under Mont Blanc, and with a guide do treks that include rock climbing at high altitude."
Author: Robert Littell

46. "If I had my way books would not be written in English but in an exceedingly difficult secret language.... This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors...who would not have the patience to learn the secret language."
Author: Robertson Davies

47. "What? Was he raised in a barn? Didn't he ever learn how to close a door? Amateur shape-shifters…No manners whatsoever." – Sasha"Do we need to get you a Midol before we go?" – Sundown "I'm not that easy to soothe, cowboy. My peeves are on a cellular level." – Sasha"
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

48. "You couldn't be satisfied with being an amateur asshole, could you, Jimbo! You had to go and turn pro on me!"
Author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips

49. "The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur."
Author: Tracy Austin

50. "I had not then acquired the technique that I flatter myself now enables me to deal competently with the works of modern artist. If this were the place I could write a very neat little guide to enable the amateur of pictures to deal to the satisfaction of their painters with the most diverse manifestations of the creative instinct. There is the intense ‘By God!' that acknowledges the power of the ruthless realist, the ‘It's so awfully sincere' that covers your embarrassment when you are shown the coloured photograph of an alderman's widow, the low whistle that exhibits your admiration for the post-impressionist, the ‘Terribly amusing' that expresses what you feel about the cubist, the ‘Oh!' of one who is overcome, the ‘Ah!' of him whose breath is taken away."
Author: W. Somerset Maugham

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