Amateurs Quotes

Amateurs do tactics, experts do logistics, as we learn in the military.

I'm a director! I don't work with no amateurs!

Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs.

Jet lag is for amateurs.

Last night, President Bush gave a prime-time press conference. It was such a big deal that Fox decided to preempt American Idol. Which made sense to me, you don't want too many amateurs on in one night.

… work on synthetic biology, or synbio, had become so cheap that its practitioners were no longer classically trained biologists. This meant that there were no shared assumptions regarding the new field’s ethics, professional standards, or safety.

I had my own youth. I had fun playing in the amateurs, going out with my friends on the weekend, drinking a beer, that sort of thing.

I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking - which is fun only for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling.

To tell the truth, I'm more comfortable now that the amateurs are back in charge [of the White House].

You know, criticism began as the province of amateurs, of wealthy men who liked the arts.

The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.

Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.

Baseball’s absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all.

Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

Macey was just starting to argue when Abby asked, "What can you tell me about the gunmen?" "They're amateurs," Hale said at the exact same time Macey told her teacher, "They're pros.

Amateurs believe their enthusiasm will suffice.

Web 2.0 is a grand utopian movement. It worships the creative amateur: the self-taught filmmaker, the dorm-room musician, the unpublished writer. It suggests that everyone--even the most poorly educated and inarticulate amongst us--can and should use digital media to express and realize themselves. Web 2.0 "empowers" our creativity, it "democratizes" media, it "levels the playing field" between experts and amateurs. The enemy of Web 2.0 is "elitist" traditional media.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

Those were the great days when plenty of amateurs could spare time for cricket.

Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.

It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.

There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.

I don't have any money to hire actors. I just need to get people who are going to do a good job being themselves.