“I am not a professionally trained professional. I am an amateur professional!” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I felt I could play in maybe a dozen tournaments a year as an amateur. — Matt Kuchar Copy Share Image
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I've been privy to many athletic environments, both amateur and professional. — Gabe Kapler Copy Share Image
The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it.… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Even now I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart. — Sergei Bubka Copy Share Image
I want to be a paleontologist, whether it's amateur or professional. And I want to be a humanitarian. — Myles Garrett Copy Share Image
“This is yet another trait of amateurs—they’ll use whatever tools they can get their hands on to try to get their ideas… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people. — Kató Lomb Copy Share Image
You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to… — Jacob Ruppert Copy Share Image
I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
People may be prepared to buy services from Apple and Amazon if they feel these companies do a good job, but we… — Charles Leadbeater Copy Share Image
I have more respect for amateur wrestlers, especially collegiate ones, than anyone else. It's a gutsy sport with no real payoff except… — Dolph Ziggler Copy Share Image
Queens Park was amateur, so you do not get paid. You need to make a living, and for the first few years,… — Andrew Robertson Copy Share Image
It wasn't until '79 I won my first amateur championship, and then, by '81, I was 14, and I won my first… — Rodney Mullen Copy Share Image
The trouble started when I won the world amateur title in 1980, aged 18. People began talking about me as the next… — Jimmy White Copy Share Image
No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Of course it's very hampering being a detective, when you don't know anything about detecting, and when nobody knows that you're doing… — A.A. Milne Copy Share Image
“Another difference between amateur and professional writers, almost by definition, is that the latter more successfully engage their audience. It is partly… — Alice W. Flaherty Copy Share Image
“...most gentlemen of breeding considered themselves amateurs at all kinds of disciplines. Go all the way back to Jefferson, who collected fossils… — Jack Hitt Copy Share Image
If this is something you'd truly like to work on, not out of a sense of guilt but because you would enjoy… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
“There, then, is the role of the amateur: to look the world back to grace. There, too, is the necessity of his… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
The difference between an amateur and a professional photographer is that the amateur thinks the camera does the work. And they treat… — David Hemmings Copy Share Image
The amateur has a long list of fears. Near the top are two: Solitude and silence. The amateur fears solitude and silence… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
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