A Quote by Jacques Barzun

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

Jacques Barzun

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Jacques Barzun
American - Educator
November 30, 1907 - October 25, 2012

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 write when they are inspired. Professionals are inspired when they write. This is a subtle but important distinction.

Michael Hyatt

Are we amateurs and not professionals? We know the lessons of history, we know the mistakes and we either act accordingly or collapse. Salvation lies in clarity and the courage to implement change

Thomas S. Power

I love mixing amateurs and professionals.

Lasse Hallstrom

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Garson Kanin

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

Francois Truffaut

Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals.

Derek Bok

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

Relationships is not a game of amateurs is what people say..But they begin to foster between amateurs and become a reason to make them matured grown-ups!

Sujit Lalwani

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people.

Bruce Schneier

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

William O'Neil

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

James Joyce

The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from these that the work of the statesman takes its direction and its termination. ... It is the genius in reality and not the other who is the creator of history, for it is only the genius who is outside and unconditioned by history.