A Quote by Lasse Hallstrom

I love mixing amateurs and professionals.

Lasse Hallstrom

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Love Mixing Professionals

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Lasse Hallstrom
Swedish - Director
Born: June 2, 1946

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

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

Francois Truffaut

Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Garson Kanin

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

Margaret Drabble

Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals.

Derek Bok

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

Robert Genn

Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people.

Bruce Schneier

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

William O'Neil

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

Jacques Barzun

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.