Top 100 Beginner Quotes
#1. I know now that everybody in the arts is forever a beginner. Experience counts for a great deal and very little. Every night onstage I feel I am starting from scratch, still not quite sure what I am doing and where I am going, thrown by the simplest thing that goes wrong.
Joan Rivers
#2. One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.
Melanie Klein
#5. There never was a winner, who wasn't a beginner.
Denis Waitley
#6. I think a critical part of being successful in our industry is having a beginner's mind
Marc Benioff
#7. In the mind of the beginner, all things are possible, But in the mind of the expert, only a few. Zen Master Suzuki-Roshi
Barbara L. Jordan
#8. If you are fortunate enough to enjoy great success, you should never forget the spirit of the beginner, and not grow indolent and arrogant.
Kentetsu Takamori
#9. I like being a beginner. I like the moment where I look at everyone and say, "I have no idea how to do this, let's figure it out.
Jon Acuff
#10. I am far more interested in being a beginner than in trying to become an expert. Life is difficult and complicated for everyone - but it's very, very short.
Alastair Humphreys
#11. every professional was once a beginner
Helen Hayes
#12. The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.
Jack Kornfield
#13. This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner. Be very very careful about this point. If you start to practice zazen, you will begin to appreciate your beginner's mind. It is the secret of Zen practice.
Shunryu Suzuki
#14. When people ask me how they should approach performance, I always tell them the professional musician should aspire to the state of the beginner.
Yo-Yo Ma
#15. The beginner's humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step.
Julia Cameron
#16. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.
Steve Jobs
#17. One becomes a beginner after 1000 days of training. One becomes a master after 10,000 days of practice.
Mas Oyama
#18. I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke.
Jamie Muir
#19. It's about doing things that you haven't done before, where you're still kind of a beginner, and not resting on your laurels.
Caterina Fake
#20. The expert at anything was once a beginner.
Helen Hayes
#21. You need to have a beginner's mind to create bold innovation.
Marc Benioff
#22. Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.
Muhammad Ali
#23. The world champion rider in any event was at one time a beginner
Richard Shrake
#24. A well-designed and humane interface does not need to be split into beginner and expert subsystems.
Jef Raskin
#25. True art is creation, and creation is beyond all theories. That is why I say to any beginner: Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul. Not theories but your own creative individuality alone must decide.
Carl Jung
#27. An expert was once a beginner. Success does not lie in the results but in efforts. Being the best is not that all important. Doing it right is all what matters.
Osunsakin Adewale
#28. Of the four major pathways to self-realization, jnana yoga, from the point of view of the beginner, is the most difficult.
Frederick Lenz
#29. An expert is a person who has few new ideas; a beginner is a person with many.
Albert Einstein
#30. The more advanced the teacher, the better for you. The fifth degree black belt is so expert that they will understand that you're a beginner and throw you perfectly so that no harm will befall you.
Frederick Lenz
#31. Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.
Jerry Seinfeld
#32. i.e., TestNG". This technique helps a beginner learn how to read the code before writing the code. The following are steps to install Selenium IDE: Steps
Rex Allen Jones II
#33. A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.
Ted Nelson
#34. You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw
#35. There is really more hope in turkey production for the beginner who starts out by informing himself thoroughly and uses sound judgment in developing his turkey project than for the turkey raiser with years of experience and indifferent success." - From MARSDEN AND MARTIN'S TURKEY MANAGEMENT, 1945
Don Schrider
#36. The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the experts, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all possibilities.
Shunryu Suzuki
#37. The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards.
Douglas Wood
#38. A fiery, good beginner always stands higher than a master in mediocrity ...
Robert Schumann
#39. Playing along with records is key. And as far as equipment goes it has gotten so much more affordable and the drum sets are of great quality. I play Pearl; their Export Series is great for a beginner.
Chad Smith
#40. Mindfulness requires being a beginner. Setting absurdly high-standards, and being unwilling to be a novice, are the joint enemies of personal progress and change. Nobody benchpresses 100 kilos the first time they enter a gym.
Paul Gibbons
#41. What if thou be saint or sinner,
Crooked gray-beard, straight beginner,
Empty paunch, or jolly dinner,
When Death thee shall call.
All like are rich or richer,
King with crown, and cross-legged stitcher,
When the grave hides all.
Richard Watson Gilder
#42. A kung fu man lives without being dependant on the opinions of others, and a master, unlike the beginner, holds himself in reserve. He is quiet and unassuming, with no desire to show off.
Bruce Lee
#43. There are times when you may be overwhelmed by the teachings of the Way. At such moments, it is important to continue with the original spirit of a beginner.
Morihei Ueshiba
#44. In the mind of the beginner, there are many possibilities. In the mind of the expert there are few.
Shunryu Suzuki
#45. You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
Erica Jong
#46. One becomes a beginner after one thousand days of training and an expert after ten thousand days of practice.
Masutatsu Oyama
#47. I've been making movies for a long time. The Japanese way of making movies has become second nature to me. To get away from that, I really try to surround myself with younger staff and approach making movies not like a veteran of the industry but always as a beginner and a rookie.
Takashi Miike
#48. The beginner should not be discouraged if he finds he does not have the prerequisites for reading the prerequisites.
Paul Halmos
#49. I come to understand that for most of my life, when I was looking for love, I was looking to be loved. In this, I am a prism of my world. I am a novice at love in all its fullness, a beginner.
Krista Tippett
#50. Retirement can and will be a glorious time in your life. You'll love the freedom and ability to try new things. It's a new phase of life; a chance to be a beginner again.
Richard Carlson
#51. The first thing I noticed was the gun in his hands, and it wasn't the sort of gun a beginner carries around with him. A big dull black German Mauser 7.63. One of those economical guns; the bullet goes clear through three people at once.
Alistair MacLean
#52. Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
#54. We strive always to have a beginner's mind.
Marc Benioff
#55. I think what I like best is that when people give talks or workshops, it doesn't really matter what level you are as a writer - whether you are a beginner, or you've been around the block a bit; there's something that you can take away from every session.
Antonya Nelson
#56. There must be, in any complete revelation of God's mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to understand; and the wisest and best of us are but beginners.
R.A. Torrey
#57. I still regard myself as an amateur today and I hope that's what I'll stay until the end of my life. Because I'm forever a beginner who discovers the world again and again.
Andre Kertesz
#58. Suddenly she was all too aware how different she was. A woman among all these man. A natural from a humble background among rich young men chosen from powerful families. A beginner among the well trained.
Trudi Canavan
#59. Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important.
Mariel Hemingway
#60. Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested.
Paulo Coelho
#61. Don't cluster too much plans to do within a relatively minimum time. As beginner, you must not cut your coat according to your elder brother's size. Know your limit.
Israelmore Ayivor
#62. I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
#63. Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.
Josef Albers
#64. We urge the beginner in security buying not to waste his efforts and his money in trying to beat the market. Let him study security values and initially test out his judgment on price versus value with the smallest possible sums.
Benjamin Graham
#65. Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.
Swami Vivekananda
#66. Hitler was a beginner compared to the comic-book industry.
Fredric Wertham
#67. In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you.
Len Wein
#68. So, what does it mean for teaching and learning programming when the solution to every beginner problem is available on the Internet?
Cay S. Horstmann
#69. If you want to make pictures and enjoy making them, you better go out and make something that a lot of people want to see. And then they'll turn you lose and let you make what you want. And then maybe you can do some of the things that you want to do. But as a beginner, you haven't got a chance.
Howard Hawks
#70. Trees, skies, valleys mountains, seen through the rain-spotted windshield, were like a distorted, stippled landscape painted by a beginner who has not yet learned to wring living colour from his palette.
Stella Benson
#71. Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing; the writer assumes you know nothing about cookery and writes useful hints - When adding eggs, break the shells first.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#72. In Buddhism, what is known as beginner's mind is a way to look at the world as if for the first time: with interest, enthusiasm, and engagement. This may be the optimal state of mind for a healthy brain.
Louis Cozolino
#73. Every master was once a beginner. Every pro was once an amateur.
Robin Sharma
#74. The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.
William Osler
#75. Remember that you're nothing but a beginner - even if you've been working on your craft for fifty years. We are all just beginner here, and we shall all die beginners. So let it go.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#76. Is it important to have an enlightened teacher? No. Yes. If you are an absolute beginner, it really doesn't matter that much, to tell you the truth.
Frederick Lenz
#77. I know I'm not a great writer. I'm an extremely gifted oral communicator, but when it comes to writing, I'm just a beginner.
Marianne Williamson
#78. You know, there's something especially lonely about a gold medal hanging all by itself on a bedroom wall, something that says "fluke," or "beginner's luck," or "one in a million," but two gold medals, now that says something completely different. That says, "Oh, yeah, baby, this is the real deal!
Christopher Paul Curtis
#79. When I bit you, I slid in even deeper." His lips moved at her neck, over the bite mark. "Made you wet, didn't it? Bad little beginner.
Tessa Bailey
#80. I love being a beginner. It can be a terrible feeling because you're ashamed of everything you do, but it's so exciting at the same time.
Charlotte Gainsbourg
#81. Beginner Workout 1 3 rounds for time: 10 burpees 20 squats 30 situps
Scott James
#82. Rowing is an absurdly simple sport. I can easily guide a beginner throught the right technical motions. The difficulty arises when the beginner attempts to repeat those motions on a bumpy race course, at 40 strokes a minute, with his heart rate zooming, and an opponent charging up his stern.
Brad Alan Lewis
#83. You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
Barbara Sher
#84. It's called the principle of favorability. When you play cards the first time, you are almost sure to win. Beginner's luck.
Paulo Coelho
#85. I can remember when, as a beginner, I was delighted with any ball as long as it would bounce.
Helen Wills Moody
#87. Getting started is the most difficult thing to do; once you file it out, they rest of the journey is as soft as the straw. Be a good beginner.
Israelmore Ayivor
#88. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few
Shunryu Suzuki
#89. Have the right attitude in advanced practice. Feel that you are always a beginner in Zen. They refer to it as "beginners mind". I feel I am a beginner, always; because it's true.
Frederick Lenz
#90. Embrace the creativity and don't care about the result. It's better to be a beginner till the end of the life than waiting forever to be perfect.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#91. Write every day. Make writing a part of your life, but also don't be afraid of learning from others because I think you can. I still try to think of myself as a beginner because that way I can keep on learning.
Kimberly Willis Holt
#92. If the angel deigns to come it will be because you have convinced her, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning; to be a beginner.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#94. Being a "promising beginner" is fun, but being an actual expert is infinitely more gratifying.
Angela Duckworth
#95. a beginner is not a worker, but a finisher is.
Mariam
#96. The whole secret to mastering the game of golf - and this applies to the beginner as well as the pro - is to cultivate a mental approach to the game that will enable you to shrug off the bad days, keep patient and know in your heart that sooner or later you will be back on top.
Arnold Palmer
#97. When a beginner knows what he needs, he proves more intelligent than an absent-minded sage
Paulo Coelho
#98. Long story short, ghosts just coming out of the closet sucked at communication. Probably as bad as a beginner ghost whisperer sucked at getting them to communicate.
C.C. Hunter
#99. The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.
Shunryu Suzuki
#100. Art ... is as much a source of happiness for the beginner as for the master. One forgets everything in one's work ...
Marie Bashkirtseff
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