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Amateur Quotes

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
Stephen King quote: "Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get..."
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. Stephen King
John McCarthy quote: "Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional..."
Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats. John McCarthy
David Coverdale quote: "Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient."
Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient. David Coverdale
Garson Kanin quote: "Amateurs hope, professionals work."
Amateurs hope, professionals work. Garson Kanin
Usually the amateur is defines 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 professional: for it is he who stands closer to the (i)noeme(i) of Photography. Roland Barthes
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 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
More than anything, he wanted to return to the house with the same look of peace that he'd seen on Pastor Harris's face, but he trudged through the sand, he couldn't help feeling like an amateur, someone searching for God's truths like a child searching for seashells. Nicholas Sparks
I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking, which is only fun for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling. Hunter S. Thompson
He disliked nearly all women and especially the young and pretty ones who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party the swallowers of slogans the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy. George Orwell
George Bernard Shaw quote: "Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the..."
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain? George Bernard Shaw
And still, what a risk he'd taken. The woman was like an amateur car bomb: you never knew when she would explode or who she would take down with her when she did. Margaret Atwood
If I had my way books would not be written in English but in an exceedingly difficult secret language.... This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors...who would not have the patience to learn the secret language. Robertson Davies
Henry David Thoreau quote: "AN ARTIST IS FIRST AN AMATEUR"
AN ARTIST IS FIRST AN AMATEUR Henry David Thoreau

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