Quotes of: Amateur Keyword

Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don't show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks di...

Steven Pressfield

The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.

Steven Pressfield

Professionals built the 'Titanic,' amateurs built the ark.

American

It wasn't what you said", he told her."It was how I felt when you said it".

The Amateur Marriage

I'd like to see 'Top Chef: Amateur'. Sometimes we have an amateur chef on the show and they just can't cut it against the pros but there are some great stories there.

Tom Colicchio

I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.

Elliott Erwitt

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

I was afraid I wrote neither well enough nor ill enough for success.

Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman

I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he's also an 'amateur' in the pure sense of the word.

John Sexton

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.

Carl Lewis

Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Unlike any other form of thought, daydreaming is its own reward.

A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder

Thanks to a hacker known as Guccifer who wormed into the computer of the 43rd president's sister, the world has learned that George W. Bush is an amateur - I would say serious amateur - painter.

Roberta Smith

Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.

Harold Prince

Relationships is not a game of amateurs is what people say.. But they begin to foster between amateurs and become a reason to make them matured grown-ups!

Life Simplified!

Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the mastery of a profession. But in the field of photographic practice, it is the amateur, on the contrary, who is the assumption of the...

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

In normal life, "simplicity" is synonymous with "easy to do," but when a chef uses the word, it means "takes a lifetime to learn.

Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

If I wasn't a professional scientist, I'd be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers.

Michio Kaku

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

Francois Truffaut

I never was an amateur wrestler.

Chris Jericho

Walter Sobchak: Nothing is fucked here Dude. Nothing is fucked. They're a bunch of fucking amateurs! The Dude: Walter, would you just shut the fuck... don't say a peep while I'm doing business here, man! Walter Sobchak: Okay Dude. Have it your way. [...

The Big Lebowski