Beginner's Mindset Quotes

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.

When you first start out with something new, you're always a little uptight.

You don't start out getting into the gym and bench pressing 300 pounds. You start out by doing the bar.

The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it – that’s how we learn.

I'm a believer in starting from the bottom.

Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.

Every time I start on a new book, I am a beginner again. I doubt myself, I grow discouraged, all the work accomplished in the past is as though it never was, my first drafts are so shapeless that it seems impossible to go on with the attempt at all, right up until the moment - always imperceptible, there, too, there is a break - when it is has become impossible not to finish it.

I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.

Some advice from a beginner: never judge your full potential based on your first run.

I think what's so great about making your first feature film is that you're so naive in some ways; you don't know what to expect, and you don't question things as much because you're just trying to figure it out as you go.

I'm always tryin' to do something new, tryin' to look like a beginner.

You have to take what you could get when you're getting started.

I treat my career like it just happened yesterday.

The first step to learning something new is embracing what you don’t know, instead of focusing on what you do know.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that ... he is going to be a beginner all his life.

You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer.

Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness.

Working with great actors - being part of something of that magnitude and not knowing the business and what the business entailed or any of that. I was so wet behind the ears, I didn't know anything. It's, like, you're watching movies, and then here you are in front of those people and working with them. It was pretty interesting.

What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.

When I entered the film industry, I didn't know anything about acting.

If the Angel deigns to appear, it will be because you have convinced him, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning — to be a Beginner!

A perfect scenario would be to feel like you've just started on every event.

I'm at a period in my life when I'm figuring out my idea of who I am and what I want and how to hold onto love -- all that big stuff. And I'm starting to realize that it can happen at any age. I know people who are in their 50s who are figuring out what they want and who they are, and I think it's great. It's like you're always approaching life as a beginner.

I said, "Oh well, I'll act." I started to study, but I didn't know what I was doing, and I don't know that I was taking it very seriously then.