Hobbyists Quotes

#1. A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. Rail attendants dismiss excited train hobbyists as "foamers" (foaming at the mouth as they board their choo-choos).

Mark Leibovich

#3. For new bands, I think a major label is the safest place to be. Independent labels are the ones getting away with murder. A lot of them are hobbyists who rip-off young bands, taking advantage of people who would never get signed to a major.

Jack White

#4. In the wild, an enoki mushroom is often squat-looking and its stem is rarely more than twice as long as the cap is wide. When they are grown by farmers and hobbyists, however, their stems elongate, the caps are smaller, and a forest of golden colored needle-like mushrooms shoot up all at once.

Paul Stamets

#5. I am somewhat proud of this," Mab's cold voice said. "To be sure, the White Christ never suffered so long or so terribly as did this traitor. Three days on a tree. Hardly enough time for a prelude. When it came to visiting agony, the Romans were hobbyists.

Jim Butcher

#6. There is nothing so good and nothing so evil but that it shall work together for good to me, if only I believe. Yes, since faith alone suffices for salvation, I need nothing except faith exercising the power and dominion of its own liberty.

Martin Luther

#7. I had fallen in love with a perfect lie.

R.K. Lilley

#8. Twitter is great to connect with fans and be transparent. I enjoy that aspect about it. But really, I'm still trying to figure it out.

Kobe Bryant

#9. That's what reframing your role is all about: thinking about how your work affects others, looking at the larger purpose of your work and whom it benefits, and seeing yourself as a potential difference maker.

David Sturt

#10. My heart's bigger than a blue whale's, which needs its own parking spot.

Jandy Nelson

#11. - The More I Bring, The More I Give -

Petra Hermans, August 16, 2016

Petra Hermans

#12. What Simone Weil said: Attention without object is a supreme form of prayer.

Jenny Offill

#13. History shows a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody's hobby to somebody's industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel-from open to closed system.

Tim Wu

#14. He looked like a giant lion lying belly-up in the sun with his legs hanging open, licking his paws and airing out his balls.

Tina Reber

#15. I loved Queen, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, and people like Barbara Streisand. The thing with me is that classical music was also an inspiration. I took piano lessons at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels for 10 years.

Lara Fabian

#16. I think of all music as existing in the substance of the air itself. It is the composer's task to order and make sense of sound, in time and space, to communicate something about being alive through music.

Libby Larsen