Beginners Quotes
134 quotes by 114 authors
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Every Chess master was once a beginner
— Irving Chernev
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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
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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
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They're all weak, all women. They're stupid compared to men. They shouldn't play chess, you know. They're like beginners. They lose every single game against…
— Bobby Fischer
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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
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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
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Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks - No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard's…
— Henry Beard
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If he ever had a bright idea it would be beginner's luck.
— William Lashner
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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
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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
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Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.
— Muhammad Ali
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When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting achievements too fabricated.…
— Paul Brunton
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Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The skill and intellect…
— Derek Bailey
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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
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Most beginners want to learn lead because they think it's cool .. consequently, they never really develop good rhythm skills .. since most of a…
— Eddie Van Halen
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A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.
— Ted Nelson
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Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. . . Â Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to…
— Julia Cameron
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A well-designed and humane interface does not need to be split into beginner and expert subsystems.
— Jef Raskin
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There never was a winner, who wasn't a beginner.
— Denis Waitley
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We cannot point to a single definitive solution of any one of the problems that confront us — political, economic, social or moral, that is,…
— Peter Medawar
Who Wrote These Beginners Quotes
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