Beginner Quotes

81 quotes by 75 authors

A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in… — Teresa of Avila
You wanna build your IQ higher in the next two years? Be uncomfortable. That means, learn something where you have a beginner's mind. — Nolan Bushnell
It is clear that there must be difficulties for us in a revelation such as the Bible. If someone were to hand me a book… — Reuben Archer Torrey
The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course,… — William Osler
A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that ... he… — Robin G. Collingwood
The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors… — Abraham Lincoln
Two simple principles lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and they may be precipitated into two rules. The first is that, when there… — H. L. Mencken
Teach as an old fishing guide takes out a beginner. — Theodore Roethke
If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography. — Edward Weston
The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the endgame a very… — Jose Raul Capablanca
Every Chess master was once a beginner — Irving Chernev
Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds… — Ray Bradbury
If the angel deigns to come it will be because you have convinced her, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I still regard myself as an amateur today and I hope that's what I'll stay until the end of my life. Because I'm forever a… — Andre Kertesz
Among gardeners, enthusiasm and experience rarely exist in equal measures. The beginner dreams of home-grown bouquets and baskets of ripe fruit, the veteran of many… — Roger Swain
You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being… — Barbara Sher
I swim. I do a little bit of surfing. I would say I'm a beginner at surfing. I run. I cycle. I play a little… — Henry Ian Cusick
Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step. — Muhammad Ali
When people ask me how they should approach performance, I always tell them the professional musician should aspire to the state of the beginner. — Yo-Yo Ma
A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds. — Ted Nelson

Who Wrote These Beginner Quotes

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