Amateurs Quotes · Page 3

I'm a director! I don't work with no amateurs!

— Rza

“Amateurs… They’re like of a pack of clay pigeons to the shotgun they call poetic justice.”

— Martin Reed

Amateurs believe their enthusiasm will suffice.

— Mason Cooley

“Inspiration is for amateurs,” Close says. “The rest of us just show up and get to work.”

— Mason Currey

Amateurs try until they succeed. Professionals try until they can't fail.

— Anonymous

Amateurs know that contributing something is better than contributing nothing.

— Austin Kleon

“Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work.”

— Chuck Close

Amateurs do things 'till they get it right. Pros do it 'till they can't get it wrong.

— Steven Jackson

When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our…

— Steven Pressfield

“amateurs practice till they get it right, professionals practice till they don't get it wrong.”

— Richard Crittenden

If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.

— Bruce Schneier

I talk to amateurs, up-and-coming guys, fighters older than me, and we compare notes to teach each other how to leave this…

— Andre Ward

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

— Dan Marino

For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman…

— John Bercow

Pro-ams in China are the strangest of anywhere, because the amateurs don't have handicaps and everyone must play off scratch.

— Shane Lowry

“Amateurs practice until they get it right. Professionals practice until they can’t get it wrong.”

— Kathy Mangold

...for we are all amateurs at life, but if we do not focus too much on our mistakes, a miraculous picture emerges.…

— Richard Paul Evans

Dealing with Jazz at Lincoln Center and its board of directors, who are so great, and then seeing how these Rock Hall…

— Steve Miller

“They were chosen for their perfect ignorance of these things. That is how the system works. In the end, the lawyers and…

— William Landay

“It’s true: free does tend to level the playing field between professionals and amateurs. As more people create content for nonmonetary reasons,…

— Chris Anderson

The professional world makes a lot of young amateurs dream, and to go from one to the other can inspire others, like…

— N'Golo Kante

“Watching amateurs at work can also inspire us to attempt the work ourselves. “I saw the Sex Pistols,” said New Order frontman…

— Austin Kleon

It's not like it's not fun to work on big studio pictures. It is. But I can't say that's more fun than…

— William Fichtner

Inspiration is for amateurs - the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will…

— Chuck Close

Amateurs focus on rewards. Professionals focus on risk!

— Harold Homer Anderson

Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket.

— Frank Woolley

Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.

— Bertolt Brecht

Baseball’s absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all.

— Roger Angell

Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work.

— Robert Genn

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.

— Paul Cezanne

I never once went to a prostitute, maybe because so many enthusiastic amateurs were around.

— Alexander Sutherland Neill

Only amateurs put on shows, real actors act out their parts.

— Alyssa Tillmon

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

— Stephen King

The difference between pros and amateurs is that pros play hurt.

— Roger Ailes

I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.

— Karrie Webb

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

— Francois Truffaut

As a wise man once said, April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads.

— Anonymous

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

— Pat Forde

Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.

— Norman Mailer

“I always thought that inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.”

— Chuck Close