Hands Quote by David McCullough

I would hate to think I am not an amature. An amateur is one who loves what he is doing. Very often, I'm afraid,…

— Yehudi Menuhin

I still consider myself to be an amateur filmmaker. And I say that because in the Latin origin of the word amateur is the…

— Jim Jarmusch

I've dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I do for love.

— Billy Childish

Amateurs write when they are inspired. Professionals are inspired when they write. This is a subtle but important distinction.

— Michael Hyatt

I think of myself as an amateur filmmaker, not a professional, in the sense that "amateur" means love of something, for the form.

— Jim Jarmusch

Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you…

— Fay Weldon

Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an…

— Charles Kettering

“Another difference between amateur and professional writers, almost by definition, is that the latter more successfully engage their audience. It is partly a question…

— Alice W. Flaherty

The word 'professional' doesn't hold any magic or mystique. The people who really change the world are usually amateurs

— Dave Hampton

There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write…

— Agatha Christie

You can be an amateur and have a passion for something, but it takes a long time to actually become a professional, meaning that…

— Patton Oswalt

Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the mastery of…

— Roland Barthes