Quotes About Amateur

It's turned into a world of amateurs. There are amateur actors making millions of dollars, amateur cinematographers, amateur directors... Jesus, these amateur directors can get deals for anything. Another comic book? Oh, very good.

The difference between and amateur and a professional.. a professional believes if a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well. An amateur believes if a job is worth doing, it very well may be worth doing badly.

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

I'm an amateur at music and an amateur at most things. I like the idea of offering some music and some records and a website to people who feel perplexed.

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.

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

I ... began my career as a wireless amateur. After 43 years in radio, I do not mind confessing that I am still an amateur. Despite many great achievements in the science of radio and electronics, what we know today is far less than what we have still to learn.

I still consider myself to be an amateur filmmaker. And I say that because in the Latin origin of the word amateur is the word love, and it's love of a form, whereas professional implies something you do for money or for work.

I do believe that in a race, it is naive to think Linux has a hope of making a dent against Microsoft starting from way behind with a fraction of the resources and amateur labor. (I feel the same about Unix.

Underground dance music - in the nicest way possible - it's amateur.

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

I'm not putting down anyone that does look at their work in that way, but for me I am a hardcore amateur.

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers.

So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

When I was a kid, I suppose I got more praise for being able to draw things and paint things than I did for my little amateur poems I was writing. But the thing that I'm trying to do with my painting is that I'm trying to keep it in the realm of pleasure. I don't show my work, I don't try to sell it.

When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend.

My grandpa was an amateur stand-up comic when I was growing up. ... He'd have me come up onstage with him to deliver a punch line: 'Why is your nose in the middle of your face?' 'Because it's the scenter.'

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.

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

A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

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.

To keep from going stale you must forget your professional outlook and rediscover the virginal eye of the amateur.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

Later in July I'm going to be promoting and putting on a boxing show of amateur fighters from July 21st through the 28th where one hundred kids will be fighting and competing with each other to see who's going to be the best.

I was planning to remain an amateur for a while.

I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.

Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.

Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.