Top 604 Amateur Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
The Australian film industry has recognised Tropfest as a place to nurture young talent. It's a stepping stone between amateur and professional.
I was really into sports, playing track and field, amateur wrestling, volleyball, and soccer. I was a very active kid and teenager.
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.
Biologically, man is still the great amateur of the animal kingdom; he is unique in his lack of anatomical and physiological specialization.
Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.)
I love the idea of the amateur - that's what popular culture is all about. But what the Internet's doing is professionalizing everyone's amateuristic impulses.
I'm a very amateur scientist. For me, it started with the Mercury space program and onward to the moon landing in my impressionable adolescent years.
I think the really good mountaineer is the man with the technical ability of the professional and with the enthusiasm and freshness of approach of the amateur.
I do small cameos here and there but nothing that requires more than a paragraph of talking, because I'm just an amateur. The movie is a whole different reality.
Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from the amateur, the rebel, the breaker of idols.
It is good for a professional to be reminded that his professionalism is only a husk, that the real person must remain an amateur, a lover of the work.
I always watched professional football and my father played at an amateur level, but I didn't think I wanted to become a pro.
Effective science began when it passed from the occasional amateur into the hands of men who made the winning of knowledge their special function or profession.
I did ballet, tap and modern dance - I loved Janet Jackson with a passion - and I was good enough to star in lots of amateur shows.
My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
International Amateur Atheletic Federation had selected me in 1985 and 1986 as one of the best eight athletes in the world.
Everyone says I should write a natural history or landscape book because if I have an area of amateur expertise, it is in those things.
Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took.
Misquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we must wade into.
I was an amateur wrestler, which I loved. It was my passion, but I started really late; I was a junior in high school when I began.
I suppose every filmmaker, at least the filmmakers I really like, are amateur psychologists to a degree. Or they come from a psychological approach, I guess.
We are all amateur attention economists, hoarding and bartering our moments - or watching them slip away down the cracks of a thousand YouTube clips.
I never had an amateur career; I didn't go to college in America; when I came out on tour nobody knew who I was.
Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living.
To keep from going stale you must forget your professional outlook and rediscover the virginal eye of the amateur.
That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.
First time I met Jack [Nicholas ] I had heard about his golf and prowess - I was playing in the Ohio amateur.
But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.
Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win.
On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.
When I was an amateur, I would go to knock guys out in the first minute. When you get experience, you know it doesn't work like that.
I studied piano for many years, and I still play. I'm a complete amateur, and I wouldn't consider myself very good at all, but I enjoy it.
My dad was a wrestler in high school. He was really good and had a great amateur background, but it was always his dream to be in the WWE.
I am merely an amateur; being referred as a lyricist is a far fetched dream for me, and I feel I don't entirely deserve it yet.
You can be an amateur and have a passion for something, but it takes a long time to actually become a professional, meaning that you can handle any situation.
If there was no fame involved and very minimal money - which is the case for most actors - I'd still be doing it. If I wasn't good enough to be a professional, I'd be an amateur actor.
A lot of great fighters were amateur wrestlers first and you can study them on film to see how they adapted the techniques.
Although my family - parents and sister - all work in the personnel management business, their real passion is performing, amateur operatic societies and so on.
When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.
I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
We feel so lucky. We were amateur quizzers but now we get to do it for a living. So there's no way any of us Chasers would walk out.
I've been through enough competition in amateur wrestling my whole life to know that sometimes you have off nights and you don't perform and chalk it up to that and move on.
I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.
I'm very experienced in four-round fights because of my amateur career, and I've got a high work rate.
My father died when I was 15, and my dad was a professional wrestler but as well as a national amateur champion at the University of Nebraska.
I left home when I was 13. When I was 15, I was living in a youth hostel, and I was the 167-pound amateur wrestling champion.
Glenda Jackson called me an amateur in 1976 when we were in a play, 'The White Devil.' I've never forgiven her.
Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people.
The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.
Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.
Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent identity
I remember every defeat I suffered as an amateur. They were rare enough to be burned into my brain, and that's why I can't bear the thought of losing.
When I was a kid at four years old, that's when I started amateur wrestling with my dad and family. And when that's instilled in you, it never goes away.
I started doing amateur theatre and played Rosa Parks at the age of 12 or 13. At 16, I decided it was what I wanted to do.
I was a big fan of amateur wrestling, and I loved it and dedicated my whole life to it for 20-something years, and it's not really a glory-getting sport.
I was initiated into acting with college plays, enacted by our amateur theatre group, Natya Aradhna, in Sholapur.
He took her up in his arms in the way of a bachelor who has had amateur experience of the carrying of nieces.
I became the European amateur champion in Liverpool back in 2008. I visited the Beatles museum, and after the final, I went to a drum and bass disco.
I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.
Women in mystery fiction were largely confined to little old lady snoops - amateur sleuths - who are nurses, teachers, whatever.
