Amateur Quotes
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A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells. (Quote by - Grandma Moses)
It didn't matter where the amateur hit his shot on that hole, the place went crazy. It was really neat. We'd like to get something like that going. (Quote by - Barbarah Rodriguez)
There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business. (Quote by - Ethel Waters)
It's just exciting to see such good results. It's very exciting for amateur golf in Canada. (Quote by - Doug Roxburgh)
Music is part of the big three. New Orleans is food, architecture and music. Everyone in New Orleans is a musician or has a relative who's a musician, whether they are professional or amateur. (Quote by - Jack Stewart)
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. (Quote by - Richard Bach)
Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs. (Quote by - Alfred Stieglitz)
Even now I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart. (Quote by - Sergei Bubka)
I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing Sin City. When I first got to New York I was swiftly informed that they only did guys in tights. (Quote by - Frank Miller)
For a long time, we've worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. It's time to move on to the next stage. (Quote by - Andrew Gould)
I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way for the rest of my life. (Quote by - Andre Kertesz)
At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession. (Quote by - Henry Bessemer)
I've probably played 50 or 60 rounds on the golf course, ... I played in the NCAAs and played in the Southern [Amateur]. It's a course I'm very familiar with and very comfortable on. It's hard, but it's a course I feel pretty good on. (Quote by - Anil Biswas)
When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me. (Quote by - Aaron Copland)
Clay has made great strides in the last year and a half in terms of maturity and his level of play. What a great honor to be named among the top amateur golfers in the nation. (Quote by - Bruce Brockbank)
Who knows, in 100,000 years the emerging Grand Nebula in Cassiopeia may replace the fading Orion Nebula as a favorite object for amateur astronomers. (Quote by - Tom Megeath)
It is a fun way to promote Yahoo Video Search and acknowledge amateur videophiles. (Quote by - Kathryn Kelly)
We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that. (Quote by - Jennifer Saunders)
An amateur is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint. (Quote by - Ben Shahn)
An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur. (Quote by - Bejamin Disraeli)
If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. (Quote by - Red Adair)
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. (Quote by - Scott Hamilton)
We'll never be them. But in the minor leagues, we're the biggest. The amateur market is huge. (Quote by - Debra Fendrich)
I've adapted my footwork and my punches are a lot harder now. My first fight was like my amateur fights. I went in there with fast feet and fast hands but now I've slowed it down so I'm adapting to it and getting more power into my shots. (Quote by - Amir Khan)
There are great amateur bodies that have good programs right from the grassroots level to professionals. (Quote by - Karrie Webb)
My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude,' which is used for the brightness of a star. (Quote by - Charles Francis Richter)
Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats. (Quote by - John McCarthy)
I built my own hi-fi set and enjoyed helping friends with their amateur radio transmitters, but lost interest as soon as they worked. (Quote by - Robert W. Wilson)
I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five. (Quote by - James Whistler)
Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment. (Quote by - Avery Brundage)
When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own. (Quote by - Lytton Strachey)
The world's most avid amateur beer enthusiasts participated. Because of their amateur status there were no minced words in the reviews -- beers were rated frankly and freely. (Quote by - Joe Tucker)
We did exactly what everybody in the country did, watching it. You entered this state of sort of denials. You think, well, it must have been a tragic accident by an amateur pilot. And then you see the next plane coming. (Quote by - Diane Sawyer)
I am deeply saddened by the passing of Charlie Yates. Charlie was an outstanding amateur golfer and a member who was linked to Bobby Jones and the club's history, attending every Masters through 2003. He will be greatly missed. (Quote by - Hootie Johnson)
The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest. (Quote by - Anne Tyler)
Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House. (Quote by - Donald Rumsfeld)
Camera phones threaten to turn everyone into amateur paparazzi. We are witnessing our personal space shrink because of the way technology is being used. (Quote by - Daniel Solove)
Every artist was first an amateur. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win. (Quote by - Kenny Anderson)
The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur. (Quote by - Tracy Austin)
That's what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way. (Quote by - Brian Boitano)
It felt great to be on that stage in front of so many friends and family. It was different than fighting at the amateur level. I came out to my own music and I had on my own boxing outfit. I could feel the electricity and it only drove my to push harder. (Quote by - Maureen Shea)
Two and two the mathematician continues to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five. (Quote by - James McNeill Whistler)
My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries. (Quote by - Lasse Hallstrom)
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. (Quote by - Aiysha Majid)
Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took. (Quote by - Frankie Avalon)
Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five. (Quote by - James McNeill Whistler)
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur. (Quote by - Alvin Toffler)
It is only the amateur [gardener] like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer. (Quote by - Freya Stark)
Anytime they're like Moreno or the ones with super good amateur backgrounds, they have some tough times getting opponents. (Quote by - Sue Fox)
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be. (Quote by - Albert Toutounzian)
In high school, Frank never participated in extra-curricular activities, like nature study, paintings or ceramics. Frank's hobby was a most interesting one: he was an amateur gynecologist. (Quote by - Dean Martin)
It was almost unmanageable last year. We barely squeezed in under the wire with the regular, senior and amateur divisions. I think it should be a lot smoother this year. (Quote by - John Kueper)
In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained. (Quote by - Robert Graves)
As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up. (Quote by - Jim Evans)
Logan's used to pressure. He won the junior amateur (last summer) in a playoff. He holds up well. He just peaked at the right time. He knows how to control his emotions. (Quote by - George Martin)
As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
Obviously the current approach on steroids both in professional sports and amateur sports is not working. (Quote by - Armand Hammer)
Bloomberg made a lot of amateur mistakes early on and his personality is not great and sometimes he can't help himself. But he's a smart guy and he's matured. (Quote by - Douglas Muzzio)
I began playing in the senior circuit when I was 15 and won the world senior amateur title the same year. (Quote by - Jahangir Khan)
I went back to being an amateur, in the sense of somebody who loves what she is doing. If a professional loses the love of work, routine sets in, and that's the death of work and life. (Quote by - Ada Bethune)
I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania. (Quote by - Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin)
I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before. (Quote by - Cat Stevens)
