"America has always been a country of amateurs……" — Wystan Hugh Auden

More Amateurs Quotes

This quote is filed under Amateurs Quotes, one of 110 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs. — Paul Cezanne
• Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work. — Chuck Close
• The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil. — Chi Chi Rodriguez
• Jet lag is for amateurs. — Dick Clark
• Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people. — Bruce Schneier
• Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores. — Charles Bukowski
• It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this… — Gerald Brenan
• Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether. — Norman Mailer
• None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker. — Jose Raul Capablanca
• No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters,… — Jose Raul Capablanca
• Amateurs hope. Professional work. — Garson Kanin

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