Amateurs Quotes
110 quotes by 93 authors
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I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.
— Paul Cezanne
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Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
— Chuck Close
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The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.
— Chi Chi Rodriguez
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Jet lag is for amateurs.
— Dick Clark
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Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.
— Bruce Schneier
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Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.
— Charles Bukowski
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It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs.
— Gerald Brenan
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Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.
— Norman Mailer
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None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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Amateurs hope. Professional work.
— Garson Kanin
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The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair…
— Havelock Ellis
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The word 'professional' doesn't hold any magic or mystique. The people who really change the world are usually amateurs
— Dave Hampton
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The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.
— Alexander Woollcott
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Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.
— Antonin Scalia
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[About John Evershed] There is much in our medallist's career which is a reminder of the scientific life of Sir William Huggins. They come from…
— Hugh Newall
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was…
— Alan Kay
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When we're living as amateurs, we're running away from our calling - meaning our work, our destiny, the obligation to become our truest and highest…
— Steven Pressfield
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I love mixing amateurs and professionals.
— Lasse Hallstrom
Who Wrote These Amateurs Quotes
93 authors contributed a total of 110 Amateurs Quotes, led by these top contributors: