Quotes About Amateur

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

I'm still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby's first millionaire five years ago.

We amateur athletes are peculiarly devoted to our fitness, and our obsessions can sometimes be a burden to our loved ones and a mystery to everyone else.

I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the street with her. I didn't want conversation, or to go anywhere except the racetrack or the boxing matches. I didn't understand t.v. I felt foolish paying money to go into a movie theatre and sit with other people to share their emotions. Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateur drunks, the bores.

No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as a citizen to keep himself in good condition... [It is] a disgrace for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and the strength of which his body is capable.

The plot is so tired that even this reviewer, who in infancy was let drop by a nurse with the result that she has ever since been mystified by amateur coin tricks, was able to guess the identity of the murderer from the middle of the book.

Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset.

I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22.

If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security.

As an amateur, I couldn't get many fights. No one would fight me when I was a schoolboy.

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

I do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess.

The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur.

The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic.

You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.

Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.

I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.

Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.

The amateur has an infectious, contagious enthusiasm for golf and life.

I'm afraid there are no replays or second chances in amateur or professional golf, and that's the way it should be.

I started acting long before I decided to pursue it. I started acting as an amateur when I was a kid, but I wanted to become a diplomat. It was self-centered and weird, but I had this idea of going out in the world and solving conflicts and making the world a better place.

If money can't be made reporting and writing articles, then professionals simply can't do it anymore. Unless we adopt the position that the amateur blogosphere is really capable of taking on the role that the 'New York Times' and CNN play, then we do need solutions for paying for content.

I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite people to make their self-portraits. I see myself as their walking photo booth.

The boundary between expert and amateur was an imposed social-cultural "protection" which actually exposed a number of women to a fatal disease, because decaying matter, as the fireman said of fire (cited in the book's final piece, "Torch Song") "ain't got no rules on it."

I've played such good golf, and it was hard coming up and it wasn't easy in any matches or any shots. It means a lot. I think hopefully it will mean a lot to New Zealand because I'm the next winner of the U.S. Amateur after Danny Lee.

Every artist was first an amateur.