Differences Quote by Richard B. Livingston

A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.

— Richard B. Livingston

A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do…

— James Agate

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can…

— Steven Pressfield

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

— Alistair Cooke

A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it

— Alistair Cooke

A professional is an amateur who has been working for a long time.

— Serge Lutens

Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is,…

— Bernard DeVoto

Technical Expertise is composed of all the little and large bits of technique known to the skilled painter, musician, actor, any artist. He adds…

— L. Ron Hubbard

An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable…

— Ben Shahn

I don't differentiate between personal and professional work. Everything I do is personal.

— Bill Frakes

I've been asked often what is the difference between an amateur and a professional artist, and I will tell you. An amateur artist is…

— Ben Shahn