Top 100 Quotes About Amateur
#1. My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
Lasse Hallstrom
#2. Like I've been sketched by an amateur artist: if you don't look too closely, it's all right, but start focusing and all the smudges and mistakes become really obvious.
Lauren Oliver
#3. Jessie Wallace was the first time I erupted. She was late, she was young. She's not like that any more. I lost my temper. It was silly and I burst into tears and ran up to the producer. I said I had been terrible and amateur.
Barbara Windsor
#4. You spend your life having lessons, practising and competing as an amateur, and working during the day. As you get to the top end of the amateur field, you try not to work anymore; you earn your living through dancing, maybe by doing a bit of teaching. It's an ongoing life's work.
Anton Du Beke
#5. I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.
Juan Manuel Marquez
#6. Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took.
Frankie Avalon
#7. A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.
Grandma Moses
#8. 'MasterChef' is the search for America's culinary amateur talent, so this is a search for the best home cook in America, and it's our job to figure out who that is.
Joe Bastianich
#9. For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism.
Greg Bear
#10. I've never played the Olympic Club. I have played Lytham, but only some amateur events. I haven't played Kiawah.
Luke Donald
#11. The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.
Steven Pressfield
#12. The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur.
Tracy Austin
#13. I was trying to find an original style that didn't sound like Tony Bennett or anyone else. So I prayed about it, woke up with this high voice, and by 1954, I was going to amateur nights and winning.
Tiny Tim
#14. Underground dance music - in the nicest way possible - it's amateur
Axwell
#15. It is good for a professional to be reminded that his professionalism is only a husk, that the real person must remain an amateur, a lover of the work.
May Sarton
#16. I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.
George R R Martin
#17. Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.
Peter S. Jennison
#20. Marcie fancied herself an amateur therapist at times. I was her favorite patient.
Kristin Walker
#21. 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.
Douglas Rushkoff
#22. The fact that I could secure an opera engagement made me realize I had within me the making of an artist, if I would really labor for such an end. When I became thoroughly convinced of this, I was transformed from an amateur into a professional in a single day.
Enrico Caruso
#23. I was an amateur - I am an amateur - and I intend to stay an amateur. To me an amateur photographer is one who is in love with taking pictures, a free soul who can photograph what he likes and who likes what he photographs.
Erwin Blumenfeld
#24. But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.
Billy Joe Saunders
#25. Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.
Helen Gurley Brown
#26. Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.
A.A. Milne
#27. You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#28. Without professionalism I'd be an amateur, and the clients I want don't hire amateurs.
David Airey
#29. 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.
Dorothy Parker
#30. 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.
James Whistler
#31. I felt I could play in maybe a dozen tournaments a year as an amateur.
Matt Kuchar
#32. The only thing more expensive than hiring a professional, is hiring an amateur.
Red Adair
#33. I'm a little bit of an amateur political junkie.
Tim Heidecker
#34. You're master of what you've lived,
artisan at what you're living,
amateur at what's next to live.
Richard Bach
#35. When it comes to scrapes, I'm what you might call a talented amateur. But I've gotten a good look at that women in and out of that fancy mechanical shell she wears. She's a pro. We're not playing the same sport.
James S.A. Corey
#36. We feel more emotion ... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his domain partakes of art, and the intent of the souvenir-object remains at the lower level of personal history.
Chris Marker
#37. Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there's absolutely nothing else to do.
Richard Condon
#38. 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.
Andrew Gould
#39. 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.
Robert Littell
#40. The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.
Steven Pressfield
#41. My father and my uncle used to be amateur monologuists because their generation grew up with Henry Irving and the like, and they had that style of delivery, of declamation: 'The Belllllls!' What we call 'ham' now, larger than life.
Ron Moody
#42. An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#43. When we were locked and loaded, he led the way and we jogged in silence.
Actually, I jogged in silence, my feet and movements soundless. Greg jogged like a large man who used to be a Marine.
Crunch.
Crash.
Smash.
Snap.
Crack.
Amateur.
Penny Reid
#44. As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.
Woodrow Wilson
#45. 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.
James Coburn
#46. Howidoono?" Dee tries to ask, but there's a mound of Brown Butter Almond Brittle ice cream on her tongue. "How did you know I needed this?" He gives her an "oh please" look. "I have a sister and a girl best friend. This is not amateur hour.
Emery Lord
#47. Remind your critics when they say you don't have the expertise or experience to do something that an amateur built the ark and the experts built the Titanic
Peyton Manning
#48. I had 12 years under my belt of baseball at the amateur level before I got to the big leagues.
Tom Seaver
#49. American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.
Bob Schieffer
#50. it was precisely the amateur spy who was the greatest danger of all. He
George Orwell
#51. Forget about being an expert or a professional, and wear your amateurism (your heart, your love) on your sleeve. Share what you love, and the people who love the same things will find you.
Austin Kleon
#52. 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.
Stellan Skarsgard
#53. It is just like one of those ridiculous paperbacks where some amateur with no apparent connection to the forces of law and order leaps in and saves the day.
Claire Ingrams
#54. Amateur wrestling, you can go by instinct. Pro wrestling, you have to memorize, and you have to go by what moves you said you were going to do. Sometimes you have to feel the crowd and do the moves at the right time and know the timing and tell a good story.
Kurt Angle
#55. You couldn't be satisfied with being an amateur asshole, could you, Jimbo! You had to go and turn pro on me!
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#56. If there is an amateur reader still left in the world - or anybody who just reads and runs - I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children.
J.D. Salinger
#57. I used to spend a lot of time at football training, but that time was later spent in amateur acting classes and my local youth theatre, in plays at school and after-school clubs. That filled the void.
Sam Claflin
#58. No-one can say just how long a message should be, but you rarely hear complaints about a speech being too short. The amateur worries about what he is going to put into his speech. The expert worries about what he should take out. An artisitic performance is concentrated, has a central focus.
Edgar Dale
#59. It would be nice to be a professional pilot. I'm an amateur pilot at the moment. I've got a lot of friends in the RAF and I don't think I've ever met a group of people who love their job as much as they do.
Martin Shaw
#60. I used to box a bit, and once fought as an amateur welterweight.
Alexander Hanson
#61. Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from the amateur, the rebel, the breaker of idols.
Robert Gordis
#62. Death by misadventure sounds like a hopeful possibility.
--Marjorie Branell-Markson
Jennifer A. Girardin
#63. My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude', which is used for the brightness of a star.
Charles Francis Richter
#64. I learnt about plants from my father, who was a herbalist and an amateur microscopist.
Rupert Sheldrake
#65. Moriston House is really quite beautiful. No wonder everyone wants to be murdered here.
--Roberta "Bobbie" Aldridge
Jennifer A. Girardin
#66. I'm older now," Dean said, testing out the possibility. "Wiser, better. I've waited so long, planned so long ... " His voice was lower when he profiled, deeper. "Once upon a time, I am an amateur. Now, I'm an artist. Invincible. Unstoppable."
"And this time," I said slowly, "you want credit.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#67. Frivolous, disconnected, an amateur at everything, I shall have known thoroughly only the disadvantage of having been born.
Emil M. Cioran
#68. I want to thank my amateur trainer. We started at the bottom together. Just because you were born at the bottom doesn't mean you have to stay at the bottom. After Saturday night, we're going to put that bologna away and go get a steak.
Tavoris Cloud
#69. Though she teased at explanations of sorcery in both her life and in her art (an early dust-flap biography called her "a practicing amateur witch," and
Shirley Jackson
#70. You go from Olympic wrestling into pro wrestling, and it's a very difficult transition, but if you make it, you can earn a great living while at the same time giving amateur wrestling a lot of exposure by being on TV every week. Fans know where you came from.
Kurt Angle
#71. Thanks to a hacker known as Guccifer who wormed into the computer of the 43rd president's sister, the world has learned that George W. Bush is an amateur - I would say serious amateur - painter.
Roberta Smith
#72. I once cured an amateur skydiver of acute acrophobia. Now you could say he was all right because he was able to jump, but you could also say he was not all right because he was so stoned he neglected to open his parachute.
Robert Preston
#73. The AAC is the best amateur event in the region and the most important tournament to me every year.
Guan Tianlang
#74. Golf is a lot like sex. It's something you can enjoy all your life. And if you remain an amateur, you get to pick your own playing partners.
Jess Sweetser
#75. Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work.
Harvey MacKay
#76. I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.
Carl Lewis
#77. Maybe the best way to get people to be pro-life is to start 'em off in amateur-life.
Brian Celio
#79. UFO (Unidentified Flying Object)sightings are not higher among amateur astronomers than they are in the general public. In fact, they're lower. You say, why is that so? Well, because we know what the hell we're looking at!
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#80. 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.
Lydia Ko
#81. Let's give a big cuddly shout-out to Pat Healy, infant provocateur and amateur journalist at The New York Times. Keep it up, Pat - one day perhaps you'll learn something about how Broadway works, and maybe even understand it.
Scott Rudin
#83. A witness can be of more value than a policy analyst. An amateur witness, free of conceptual bias, sometimes sees the plainest truth. One should never be blinded by tailoring.
Andrew Solomon
#84. I would hate to think I am not an amature. An amateur is one who loves what he is doing. Very often, I'm afraid, the professional hates what he is doing. So, I'd rather be an amateur.
Yehudi Menuhin
#85. Obviously the current approach on steroids both in professional sports and amateur sports is not working.
Armand Hammer
#86. We are all amateur dancers; the professional dancer is the Earth, the Sun, and all the planets! They have been dancing nonstop for billions of years!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#87. 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.
Sam Abell
#88. Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
Alvin Toffler
#89. Everyone says I should write a natural history or landscape book because if I have an area of amateur expertise, it is in those things.
Jim Crace
#90. She had to save herself from every last one of them. All of them, the people at the orphanage, the foster care system, the middle school, they were all outsiders and strangers and a possible threat.....The counselor couldn't prove otherwise.
Noorilhuda
#91. I think it is silly to be amateur about anything when one has an opportunity of learning.
Beverley Nichols
#92. It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.
Robert Breault
#93. our environment is much stronger than our intellect. Remarkably few investors - either amateur or professional - truly understand this critical point.
Guy Spier
#94. Stubbornly unsolved, and of the laborious and ongoing task of decipherment and translation. For the curious amateur,
Alison Croggon
#95. But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose.
Gunther Schuller
#97. I dislike the word 'emerging artist.' Emerging connotes to me an alligator coming up from the water. I consider all artists to be artists, not rising, emerging, amateur, beginning, but the real thing.
Jack White
#98. More than anything, he wanted to return to the house with the same look of peace that he'd seen on Pastor Harris's face, but he trudged through the sand, he couldn't help feeling like an amateur, someone searching for God's truths like a child searching for seashells.
Nicholas Sparks
#99. In other words, I continue to think like an amateur as frequently as possible. GOING IT ALONE
Peter Lynch
#100. Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.
Harold Prince
