Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I never once went to a prostitute, maybe because so many enthusiastic amateurs were around. — Alexander Sutherland Neill Copy Share Image
I had my own youth. I had fun playing in the amateurs, going out with my friends on the weekend, drinking a… — Jaap Stam 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
As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest… — Andreas Feininger Copy Share Image
Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“I always thought that inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.” — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Pro-ams in China are the strangest of anywhere, because the amateurs don't have handicaps and everyone must play off scratch. — Shane Lowry Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“All men who run for presidency of the United States are amateurs; there is no way of becoming a professional at it,… — Theodore H. White Copy Share Image
“We are such sticklers for tradition in insisting on an amateur captain, regardless of the question of whether he can pull his… — John Berry Hobbs Copy Share Image
America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Inspiration is for amateurs - the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will… — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Watching amateurs at work can also inspire us to attempt the work ourselves. “I saw the Sex Pistols,” said New Order frontman… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“…as she cycled home Shelley reflected that in all her years at Birnam Wood she had never quite mastered the skill of… — Eleanor Catton 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
What does a professional photojournalist do that others cannot? Depicting photo opportunities as if they are authentic, covering press conferences, or making… — Fred Ritchin Copy Share Image
“He had started out the way nearly all writers do, and I'd seen it a hundred times--amateurs transformed into gibbering wrecks by… — Colin Bateman Copy Share Image
“The young people nowadays – men and women, amateurs and pros – generally fall into one of two categories: either they don’t… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“Writer David Foster Wallace said that he thought good nonfiction was a chance to “watch somebody reasonably bright but also reasonably average… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
As an individual navigating this reality, you have to make choices to survive. Sometimes you happily work for free if it's something… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
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