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Tag Name "Amateur" (192)

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The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.
Fran Tarkenton
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You can be an amateur and have a passion for something, but it takes a long time to actually become a professional, meaning that you can handle any situation.
Patton Oswalt
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Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
Avery Brundage
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You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.
Jeffrey Eugenides
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The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like the dog in the fable, whose collar has made an indelible mark around his neck. The amateur is the shaggy wolf whom no dog had better trust too far.
Jacques Barzun
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Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
Edward Weston
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I used to box a bit, and once fought as an amateur welterweight.
Alexander Hanson
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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
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I was national amateur champion. I was 24 years old. My father was there, and I couldn't wait to see him, and my mother. I went up and was waiting for all the accolades, and my mom was teary and happy and my dad looked at me and said, Well, boy, you did good, and that was it.
Arnold Palmer
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American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.
Bob Schieffer
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Without professionalism I'd be an amateur, and the clients I want don't hire amateurs.
David Airey
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In my heart I like to remain an amateur, in the sense of being in love with what I'm doing, forever astonished again at the endless possibilities of seeing and using the camera as a recording tool.
Inge Morath
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No one can say just how long a message should be, but you rarely hear complaints about a speech being too short. The amateur worries about what he is going to put in his speech or article. The expert worries about what he should take out.
Edgar Dale
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Rembrandt was way ahead of his time. It's as if he was painting an amateur theatrical, or a professional theatrical, in his studio. It's a kind of performance.
Peter Schjeldahl
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You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.
Katharine Hepburn
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An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.
Marshall McLuhan
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If it weren't for radio programs like 'The George Jarkesy Show,' no one would know about 'The Amateur'.
Edward Klein
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Like I've been sketched by an amateur artist: if you don't look too closely, it's all right, but start focusing and all the smudges and mistakes become really obvious.
Lauren Oliver
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Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people.
Kató Lomb
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To keep from going stale you must forget your professional outlook and rediscover the virginal eye of the amateur.
Brassai
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I'm not putting down anyone that does look at their work in that way, but for me I am a hardcore amateur.
Jim Jarmusch
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Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from the amateur, the rebel, the breaker of idols.
Robert Gordis
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The mere knowledge of secrets will not help the amateur conjurer very far on the road to success.
David Devant
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