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That's what all we are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else. — Charlie Chaplin
Silicon Valley, "the largest legal creation of wealth in history," was built largely by unprofessional amateurs using math, sand, and the institutions of freedom. The… — Michael Strong
I do uphill skiing; I don't do downhill skiing. I think that's for nerd amateurs. — Judah Friedlander
The Mafia and crime bosses of this world are amateurs compared to this syndicate, ruled by the prince of darkness and the master of deception… — Adrian Rogers
Most playwrights go wrong on the fifth word. When you start a play and you type 'Act one, scene one,' your writing is every bit… — Meredith Willson
I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies!… — Anne Tyler
It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics,… — Dorothy Hamill
Inspiration is for amateurs. — Chuck Close
Amateurs know that contributing something is better than contributing nothing. — Austin Kleon
Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs. — Gore Vidal
The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours worked, or words… — Oliver Burkeman
True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures—unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement.… — John W. Davis
Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory. — Ann Voskamp
Inner beauty is for amateurs. — Anne Taintor
To find the best moves great Masters, with years of experience, engage in laborious research, and the moves thus found are blindly repeated by amateurs… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work. — Robert Genn
Are we amateurs and not professionals? We know the lessons of history, we know the mistakes and we either act accordingly or collapse. Salvation lies… — Thomas S. Power
Inspiration is for amateurs - the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of… — Chuck Close
As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers. — Andreas Feininger
The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for… — Chuck Close
Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots. — Donald Miller
Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money. — Alan Greenspan
There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of Elysium where criticism… — Mark Matousek
Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket. — Frank Woolley
The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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