Apprenticeship Quotes
59 quotes by 56 authors
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For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why…
— Vince Cable
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A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.
— Amiri Baraka
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Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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For the production of man a different apprenticeship [from forests] was needed to sharpen the wits and quicken the higher manifestations of intellect - a…
— Raymond Dart
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A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
— Chet Atkins
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As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned…
— James A. Michener
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I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have,…
— John Green
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Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That…
— David Eddings
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Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.
— Katherine Anne Porter
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Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was an apprenticeship to books and…
— Madison Smartt Bell
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Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have…
— Mark Twain
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I have gone through a long apprenticeship. I have gone through enough of being a nobody. I have decided that when I am a star,…
— Gloria Swanson
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Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. If they arrive at college with literary ambitions, they should be…
— Wallace Stegner
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The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
— Samuel Smiles
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Educating Lawyers succeeds admirably in describing the educational programs at virtually every American law school. The call for the integration of the three apprenticeships seems…
— Stephen Wizner
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There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual.
— John Constable
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When we begin to love and respect Great Mother Nature's gift to us of gayness, we'll discover that the bondage of our childhood and adolescence…
— Harry Hay
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The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only…
— Simone Weil
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And an apprenticeship to whatever gadgetry is useful in a technical world
— Jacques Ellul
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