A Quote by Margaret Drabble

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

Margaret Drabble

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Margaret Drabble
English - Novelist
Born: June 5, 1939

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

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

Robert Genn

Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals.

Derek Bok

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people.

Bruce Schneier

We need money to scale up the services that bring medicine to mothers. The United States government's doing that. There's a global fund that's providing money. mothers2mothers provides for mothers who come in who don't have education, who don't have support. mothers2mothers employs mothers with HIV, mothers who were patients recently in the very same facilities. We take those mothers who were patients who've had their babies, we bring them back, we train them, we pay them, to be health care professionals.

Annie Lennox

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

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

Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.