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Amateur Quotes by Steven Pressfield
- The amateur tweets. The pro works.
- The amateur has a long list of fears. Near the top are two: Solitude and silence. The amateur fears solitude and silence because she needs…
- Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don't show…
- The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never…
- The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He…
- The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her…
More Amateur Quotes
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
- I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor. — Ben Affleck
- I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs. — Paul Cezanne
- Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work. — Chuck Close
- My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front,… — Sam Abell
- It was to Hofmeister, working as a young man, an amateur and enthusiast, in the early morning hours of summer months, before… — Unknown Author
- There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has not settled… — Brooks Atkinson
- Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the… — Marshall McLuhan
- My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term "magnitude," which is used for the brightness of a star. — Charles Richet
- As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following… — Alfred Stieglitz