In every art, beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. — Ruth Whitman Copy Share Image
At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners. — Alice Fulton Copy Share Image
Beginners must master low stance and posture, natural body positions are for the advanced. — Gichin Funakoshi Copy Share Image
Most beginners are too anxious for results. Real progress takes place over a long period of time. — Mary Beth McKenzie Copy Share Image
A well-designed and humane interface does not have to be split into beginner and expert subsystems. — Jef Raskin Copy Share Image
When we're impatient with beginners around us, we would do well to sign up for a class in scuba diving, ballroom dancing… — Susan Collins Copy Share Image
There are times when you may be overwhelmed by the teachings of the Way. At such moments, it is important to continue… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
I began as a true beginner, not knowing how to dance or perform. I just entered a local contest in town as… — Debbie Reynolds Copy Share Image
I am uneasy about the practice of other people telling you how to write. This is especially true for beginners who haven't… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
Even enlightened people think of themselves as beginners. They probably think of themselves as beginners more than others do - perpetual beginners… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up.… — Bob Edwards Copy Share Image
We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The beginning seems bitter to you, but the end is sweeter for you. However, you can’t get through to the end without… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Among gardeners, enthusiasm and experience rarely exist in equal measures. The beginner dreams of home-grown bouquets and baskets of ripe fruit, the… — Roger Swain Copy Share Image
[The infinitely small] neither have nor can have theory; it is a dangerous instrument in the hands of beginners [ ... ]… — Francois-Joseph Servois Copy Share Image
Sanity and enlightenment...I've been reading a new book Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries, and it contains a commentary on Genjo Koan by… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
One mistake with beginners in writing is, that they think it important to spin out something long. It is a great deal… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
What if thou be saint or sinner, Crooked gray-beard, straight beginner,-- Empty paunch, or jolly dinner, When Death thee shall call. All… — Richard Watson Gilder Copy Share Image
In Japan we have the phrase, "Shoshin," which means "beginner's mind." Our "original mind" includes everything within itself. It is always rich… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
It just seemed to me so utterly wrong to credit someone's work just for the fact that this someone migrated from one… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
“For now, what I hope to convey is that experts and beginners have different motivational needs. At the start of an endeavor,… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
Perfectionism doesn't believe in practice shots. It doesn't believe in improvement. Perfectionism has never heard that anything worth doing is worth doing… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
'Strive for peace with all men, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord' (Heb. 12:14), Why did… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
Before His visible advent in the flesh the Logos of God dwelt among the patriarchs and prophets in a spiritual manner, prefiguring… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Two simple principles lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and they may be precipitated into two rules. The first is… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Any man will go considerably out of his way to pick up a silver dollar; but here are golden words, which the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Indeed, being a beginner is very difficult right now. Book publishers are in a crisis, sales are dwindling, and publishing houses are… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image