Beginners Quotes
134 quotes by 115 authors
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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
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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
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The beginner's humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary…
— Julia Cameron
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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
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By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm.
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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The great souls who became mighty in prayer and rejoiced to spend three and four hours a day alone with God were once beginners.
— Samuel Chadwick
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Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils…
— Gilbert Highet
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Beginners are many; finishers are few.
— Stephen Covey
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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
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.... In the beginner's mind there is no thought, 'I have…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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A search always starts with Beginner's Luck and ends with the Test of the Conqueror.
— Paulo Coelho
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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
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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
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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
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[The infinitely small] neither have nor can have theory; it is a dangerous instrument in the hands of beginners [ ... ] anticipating, for my…
— Francois-Joseph Servois
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You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.
— Tony Hoare
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Teach as an old fishing guide takes out a beginner.
— Theodore Roethke
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Readers take in dialogue one thought at a time. A frequent mistake of beginners is to combine thoughts, which may be suitable for other forms…
— Sol Stein
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If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.
— Edward Weston
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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
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