quotes about Beginners
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When a beginner wins he feels brilliant and invincible Then he takes wild risk and loses everything.
-- Alexander ElderSource : Alexander Elder (1993). “Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management”, p.11, John Wiley & Sons
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At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners.
-- Alice FultonSource : Alice Fulton, “About Face”
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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 -
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 SherSource : Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.201, Dell
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Always be a beginner at something, and always be in love with what you are beginning.
-- Bill Buxton -
Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.
-- Buffy Sainte-Marie -
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 -
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 FakeSource : "Caterina Fake: How To Avoid The Pressure Of The Startup 'Sophomore Slump'". www.businessinsider.com. May 20, 2011.
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Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.
-- Charles Henry Parkhurst -
We are all beginners, it just takes some of us longer to realize it
-- Chuck Miller -
There never was a winner, who wasn't a beginner.
-- Denis Waitley -
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 -
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[On golf:] ... though aware I could never be more than a humble potterer, it was impossible to repress the wild upsurgings of hope known to all middle-aged beginners ...
-- Ethel Smyth -
But beginners to the World Economics Forum have to understand there is no single Davos experience, and there is no single Davos community either. There are numerous tribes who interact only at a minimal level.
-- Evan Davis -
Hitler was a beginner compared to the comic-book industry.
-- Fredric WerthamSource : "The Horror" by Louis Menand, www.newyorker.com. March 31, 2008.
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Beginners must master low stance and posture, natural body positions are for the advanced.
-- Gichin Funakoshi -
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I can remember when, as a beginner, I was delighted with any ball as long as it would bounce.
-- Helen WillsSource : HELEN WILLS “TENNIS”
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Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks - No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard's excellent Tennis for Beginners.
-- Henry Beard -
Every Chess master was once a beginner
-- Irving ChernevSource : Irving Chernev, Fred Reinfeld (2013). “Winning Chess: Reissue of the bestselling Irving Chernev instructional classic”, p.148, Pavilion Books
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In the company of Jesus there are no experts, only beginners
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Be ready and willing to be a beginner every morning. That's how you grow and step into your greatness
-- Joel BrownSource : Twitter post from Mar 29, 2015
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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 -
Sharpie? A mischievous smile spread across her face. I thought you said you couldn't control your powers. Beginner's luck.
-- Kami Garcia -
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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 -
Art ... is as much a source of happiness for the beginner as for the master. One forgets everything in one's work ...
-- Marie BashkirtseffSource : Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”
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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 KleinSource : Melanie Klein, Juliet Mitchell (1987). “Selected Melanie Klein”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
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I'm always tryin' to do something new, tryin' to look like a beginner.
-- Meshell Ndegeocello -
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Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.
-- Muhammad Ali -
The beginner should not be discouraged if he finds he does not have the prerequisites for reading the prerequisites.
-- Paul Halmos -
A search always starts with Beginner's Luck and ends with the Test of the Conqueror.
-- Paulo Coelho -
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 -
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Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies.
-- Ray Bradbury -
A fiery, good beginner always stands higher than a master in mediocrity...
-- Robert SchumannSource : Robert Schumann (1986). “Schumann: a self-portrait in his own words”
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A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that ... he is going to be a beginner all his life.
-- Robin G. CollingwoodSource : "The New Leviathan: Or Man, Society, Civilization and Barbarism". Book by Robin G. Collingwood, 1942.
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Every master was once a beginner. Every pro was once an amateur.
-- Robin Sharma -
In every art, beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them.
-- Ruth WhitmanSource : Ruth Whitman (1982). “Becoming a poet: source, process, practice”, Writer
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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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Readers take in dialogue one thought at a time. A frequent mistake of beginners is to combine thoughts, which may be suitable for other forms of writing but not for dialogue. Another mistake is speechifying. Three sentences at a time is tops, yet many beginners write speeches that go on and on.
-- Sol Stein -
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A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.
-- Ted NelsonSource : "A different vision of the computer world". sydney.edu.au. April 4, 2011.
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Teach as an old fishing guide takes out a beginner.
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Stick to a task 'til it sticks to you. . .for beginners are many, but finishers few.
-- Thomas S. Monson -
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Italy is not a country for beginners.
-- Tim ParksSource : Tim Parks (2014). “Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company
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You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.
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I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it.
-- Wayne Thiebaud -
If I may throw out a word of counsel to beginners, it is: Treasure your exceptions! When there are none, the work gets so dull that no one cares to carry it further. Keep them always uncovered and in sight. Exceptions are like the rough brickwork of a growing building which tells that there is more to come and shows where the next construction is to be.
-- William BatesonSource : William Bateson, Beatrice Durham Bateson (1928). “William Bateson, F. R. S., Naturalist: His Essays & Addresses, Together with a Short Account of His Life”, p.324, CUP Archive
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By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm.
-- Yamamoto Tsunetomo -
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 -
A beginner with any native common sense can play passable Rummy.
-- Albert H. MoreheadSource : ALBERT H. MOREHEAD (1950). “FUN WITH GAMES OF RUMMY”
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Before you dismiss a beginner's work, remember how much you sucked when you started. You probably sucked worse, actually.
-- Jason FriedSource : Twitter post from Feb 6, 2014
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In spiritual matters we remain beginners.
-- Morton T. Kelsey -
We are not beginners forever, but we never stop learning.
-- Sandra Scofield -
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.
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We explore within postures everything we deal with in life: the interplay between resistance and surrender; establishing stability and maintaining flexibility; learning to receive and release; being present to all the complexities of our lives, and returning to the fundamentals of our "beginner's mind" again and again.
-- Brenda Strong -
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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