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Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work. — Chuck Close

It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs. — Gerald Brenan

Professionals have coaches. Amateurs do not — Robert T. Kiyosaki

Vision is easy. Ideas are even easier. It's execution that separates the amateurs from the pros. — Blaine Hogan

Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration. — Frank Yerby

Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores. — Charles Bukowski

American archaeology has always attracted lots of amateurs ... They were digging up Indian pottery all over the place. — Anthony F. C. Wallace

Sitting around waiting for inspiration is for amateurs. If you're a professional, you show up every day at work. — Mara Altman

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs — Francois Truffaut

If you think that hiring professionals is expensive, try hiring amateurs — Red Adair

For most adult amateurs trying to keep their heels down forces their feet forward which throws them out of balance. — Michael Schaffer

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

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs. — Paul Cezanne

Inner beauty is for amateurs. — Anne Taintor

It is actually possible to become amateurs in suffering. — Charles Robert Maturin

I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work. — Chuck Close

There are no amateurs in the world of children. — Don DeLillo

Only amateurs attack machines; professionals target people. — Bruce Schneier

Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built he Titanic. — Elizabeth May

Amateurs practice until they get it right.
Professionals practice until it can't go wrong. — Julie Andrews

LSU fans have descended upon Dallas and reminded us of this truth: when it comes to partying, they're the pros and we're all amateurs. — Pat Forde

True artists unburden their envies and work toward encouraging amateurs. — Aniruddha Sastikar

Only amateurs use short copy. — David Ogilvy

You are trying to lure us into revealing information you're not entitled to? With chocolate and wine? Are you amateurs? — Moira J. Moore

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

This shit is for amateurs. The whole world's a fucking drag show. Look at them, they are all in costume. — David Greenspan

None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker. — Jose Raul Capablanca

Hiding is for amateurs. — Ally Carter

Inspiration is for amateurs. professionals work everyday. Personally the best inspiration is a deadline. — Chuck Close

Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots. — Donald Miller

Without professionalism I'd be an amateur, and the clients I want don't hire amateurs. — David Airey

I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about. — Jack O'Brien

We attracted a lot of market timers and asset allocators. I don't need those ... amateurs in my fund. — Martin J. Whitman

I hate traveling with amateurs. — Rachel Caine

Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money. — Alan Greenspan

I don't believe in inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. Some of the time you know you're cooking, and the rest of the time, you just do it. — Chuck Close

War is always a professional enterprise; despair is left to amateurs. — Hans Koning

Amateurs believe their enthusiasm will suffice. — Mason Cooley

Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient. — David Coverdale

Hell is full of musical amateurs. — George Bernard Shaw

I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out. — Karrie Webb

I never once went to a prostitute, maybe because so many enthusiastic amateurs were around. — Alexander Sutherland Neill

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

Goddamn amateurs," Trigg mutters. "Ten minutes," Holiday repeats. — Pierce Brown

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work. — Robert Genn

Inspiration is for amateurs. — Daniel Coyle

As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish ... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers. — Andreas Feininger

I can't stand callow amateurs who aren't sufficiently interested in the craft of advertising to assume the posture of students. — David Ogilvy

Amateurs try to write in one go; professionals draft and
draft again. — Alastair Fowler

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

I do uphill skiing; I don't do downhill skiing. I think that's for nerd amateurs. — Judah Friedlander

The British public has always had an unerring taste for ungifted amateurs. — John Osborne

Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs . — Aldo Leopold

Amateurs train until they get it right.
Professionals train until they cannot get it wrong. — Jose N. Harris

Jet lag is for amateurs. — Dick Clark

The tactics ... no, amateurs discuss tactics, ... Professional soldiers study logistics. — Tom Clancy

Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I'd play for nothing. Ab-so-lute-ly free. But that's not the system. — Dan Marino

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

The great happiness in life in creativity belongs to amateurs. — Joyce Carol Oates

Amateurs write when they are inspired. Professionals are inspired when they write. This is a subtle but important distinction. — Michael Hyatt

Look, I debate for a living so I don't need to learn any lessons from amateurs. — Bill O'Reilly

Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

The amateurs discuss tactics: the professionals discuss logistics — Napoleon Bonaparte

Nobody was born a master; amateurs become experts because they did not give up on learning. You are going as far as you can if you'll learn and apply! — Israelmore Ayivor

The biggest criminals that I have met in life are working for the government. They make mass murderers look like amateurs. — Steven Magee

I think the Chinese are really amateurs when it comes to running markets. — David Wessel

Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals. — Derek Bok

For far too long the House of Commons has been run as little more than a private club by and for gentleman amateurs. — John Bercow

Anytime you're afraid to try something new ... just remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the titanic. — David Drake

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

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

This is yet another trait of amateurs - they'll use whatever tools they can get their hands on to try to get their ideas into the world. — Austin Kleon

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

The Lacedaemonians fought a memorable battle; they made it quite clear that they were the experts, and that they were fighting against amateurs. — Herodotus

Amateurs do things 'till they get it right. Pros do it 'till they can't get it wrong. — Steven Jackson

Naw, rudeness is for amateurs. I prefer going right from polite conversation to extreme violence. — Stephen Schochet

General ideas are more flattering. And then professionals and even amateurs always end up by being right — Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Discipline is for professionals.
Motivation is for amateurs. — J.R. Rim

No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker. — Jose Raul Capablanca

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain? — George Bernard Shaw

WE'RE ALL AMATEURS WHEN IT COMES TO LOVE and relationships. I — Donald Miller

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work. — Harvey MacKay

If you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security. — Bruce Schneier

It is frankly a mistake of amateurs to believe you can gain the upper hand in a diplomatic negotiation. — Henry A. Kissinger

The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil. — Chi Chi Rodriguez

That's all any of us are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else. — Charlie Chaplin

Amateurs go broke taking large losses, professionals go broke taking small profits. — William Eckhardt

Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds. — Alexander Elder

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

Inspiration is for amateurs," Close says. "The rest of us just show up and get to work. — Mason Currey

As long as you are hanging around amateurs, you will think like an amateur, and you will not improve your skills. — John C. Maxwell

What followed for two hours was such an adventure as only wretched amateurs would indulge in... — Hilaire Belloc

The word 'professional' doesn't hold any magic or mystique. The people who really change the world are usually amateurs — Dave Hampton

Baseball's absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all — Roger Angell

Amateurs ... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether. — Norman Mailer

More clumsily,he put his arm around her and tried to hug. They were definitely amateurs at showing affection. — Caroline B. Cooney

As a wise man once said, "April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people's heads." — Al Yankovic

There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work. — Patti Smith