A Quote by Derek Bok

Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals.

Derek Bok

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Derek Bok
American - Lawyer
Born: March 22, 1930

In both the art and the business worlds, the difference between the amateurs and the professionals is simple: The professionals know they're winging it. The amateurs pretend they're not.

Amanda Palmer

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Garson Kanin

I love mixing amateurs and professionals.

Lasse Hallstrom

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

Francois Truffaut

On one thing professionals and amateurs agree: mothers can't win.

Margaret Drabble

Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work.

Robert Genn

When I said that the mentally ill should be in institutions, public universities weren't the kind of institutions I had in mind.

Robert Stacy McCain

Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people.

Bruce Schneier

In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.

Jacques Barzun

90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.

William O'Neil

One of the characteristics of the university is that it is made up of professors who train professors, or professionals training professionals. Education was this no longer directed toward people who were to be educated with a view to become fully developed human beings, but to specialists, in other that they might learn how to train other specialists. This is the danger of "Scholasticism," that philosophical tendency which began to be sketched at the end of antiquity, developed in the Middle Ages, and whose presence is still recognizable in philosophy today.

Pierre Hadot

Most train to be part of the game. The greatest train to be the game: I am the game. Third-and-9, two-minutes left, that's what I train for. I train for moments everyone runs from. I run for them.

Michael Irvin

Inspiration is for amateurs. professionals work everyday. Personally the best inspiration is a deadline.

Chuck Close

Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don't show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin', no matter what.

Steven Pressfield

Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we’re thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don’t show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin’, no matter what.

Steven Pressfield

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