Amateur Quote by Ryan Holiday

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

The fact that I could secure an opera engagement made me realize I had within me the making of an artist, if I would…

— Enrico Caruso

“A professional writer is an amateur who never gave up.”

— Richard Bach

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band…

— Alan Greenspan

Some rescue groups are highly organized, experienced, well-funded, nearly professional. Others are small amateur operations run out of garages and back yards. Their members…

— Jon Katz

Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats.

— John McCarthy

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

Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner is a professional. A…

— Bunker Roy

I've been privy to many athletic environments, both amateur and professional.

— Gabe Kapler

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

“The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him.…

— Steven Pressfield