The difference between an expert and a novice fighter is…

“I had a novice's hunger for history, but also a novice's inability to envision it.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

If I should certainly say to a novice, 'Write from experience and experience only,' I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition…

— Henry James

I won the World Championship as a novice. They're strong words and most people probably won't like that but I couldn't care.

— Rob Cross

The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the…

— Eddie Rickenbacker

“Simple user experiences need to work for a novice, or a mainstreamer who’s under pressure.”

— Giles Colborne

The experienced writer says to the anguished novice: 'Just do it; get something, anything, on to the screen or page, just establish a flow…

— Hilary Mantel

“[T]echnique has a different meaning for the novice than for the expert. One needs technique in learning to play the piano but eventually, if…

— Irvin D. Yalom

I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some…

— Damon Albarn

“Rebelliousness is not a good quality in a novice.”

— Elif Shafak

What you know will keep you from what you need to know if you don't remain a novice.

— Bill Johnson

The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in…

— Pierre Berton

“If you have a willingness to carve out time to work on a skill every day, you’ll slowly make that transition from novice to…

— S.J. Scott

“Alas, Experience! No other mentor has so wasted and frozen a face as yours, none wears a robe so black, none bears a rod…

— Charlotte Brontë

A novice always behaves with propriety.

— Martial

It is always the novice who exaggerates.

— Anonymous