Beginners Quotes

134 quotes by 115 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
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
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
By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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
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
Beginners are many; finishers are few. — Stephen Covey
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
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
A search always starts with Beginner's Luck and ends with the Test of the Conqueror. — Paulo Coelho
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
[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
You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up. — Tony Hoare
Teach as an old fishing guide takes out a beginner. — Theodore Roethke
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
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

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