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Amateurs hope, professionals work.

Garson Kanin

Tags: Work Hope Amateur

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

George Bernard Shaw

Tags: Full Musical Hell

My mum and dad's hobby was amateur dramatics.

Katherine Kelly

Tags: Dad Mum Hobby

I was planning to remain an amateur for a while.

Tracy Austin

Tags: While Remain Planning

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Alvin Toffler

Tags: Greatest Single Remains

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

Francois Truffaut

Tags: Women Men Love

I would say I am an amateur guitarist.

Rain Phoenix

Tags: Would Am Say

My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.

John E. Walker

Tags: Father Talented Stone

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

Chuck Close

Tags: Work Just Get

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

Harvey Mackay

Tags: Work Get Up

I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Tags: Me Am I Am

Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Tags: Had Before Start

Growing up as an amateur, I wasn't much of a power puncher. I was more of a speed guy.

Nonito Donaire

Tags: Power More Up

I began playing in the senior circuit when I was 15 and won the world senior amateur title the same year.

Jahangir Khan

Tags: World Same Playing

The AAC is the best amateur event in the region and the most important tournament to me every year.

Guan Tianlang

Tags: Best Me Most

I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.

Elliott Erwitt

Tags: Think I Think Being

All types of magic performance have a purpose. Even if it's an amateur who's trying out slight of hand on YouTube.

Justin Flom

Tags: Out Even Trying

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

James Whistler

Tags: Would Make Two

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.

Sam Abell

Tags: Dad Me Had

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.'

Zoe Tapper

Tags: Age Love Around

Most nervous I've ever been is probably the 2007 Walker Cup. I was a little boy playing with these 8 or 9 other guys that were the best amateurs in the country.

Rickie Fowler

Tags: Best Been Most

I felt like, by the end of the week in the U.S. Amateur, I was never aiming at a flag; I was just hitting it at slopes and just letting the natural contours take over.

Peter Uihlein

Tags: Like Just Never

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.

Carl Lewis

Tags: Sports Because Want

In the beginning, when you're acting in amateur theater and off-Broadway, it was unheard of that anyone else would get your costume. And it was important to get a good costume. You put time into that.

Peter Falk

Tags: Time Good You

People still call me the eternal amateur. After all, professionals are supposed to be able to conduct everything. But I can't unless I feel some connection inside. Conducting is not an end in itself for me.

Jeffrey Tate

Tags: People Me Some

I was trying to find an original style that didn't sound like Tony Bennett or anyone else. So I prayed about it, woke up with this high voice, and by 1954, I was going to amateur nights and winning.

Tiny Tim

Tags: Like About Up

So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well.

Scott Hamilton

Tags: Me Because Really

For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism.

Greg Bear

Tags: More Out Been

Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.

Harold Prince

Tags: Your Make Own

My family actually owns an MMA promotion company, so it's kind of a family deal. It's called Fight Sports Entertainment, and they throw amateur fights in California. Because of that, I've given my mom a lot of the fighters to fight in a show.

Jonathan Lipnicki

Tags: Family Mom Sports

In the theatre, as anyone knows who's even done amateur theatre all their lives, you immediately find a family there. Because you're under stress, you're trying to create something, you're putting on a show, you find brothers and sisters right away.

Saul Rubinek

Tags: Family You Because

Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used to go to the theater with my parents in the north of England, where I was born and brought up... Theater of all sorts.

Ian Mckellen

Tags: Great Up Go

I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.

David McCullough

Tags: History Think Who

Amateur wrestling, you can go by instinct. Pro wrestling, you have to memorize, and you have to go by what moves you said you were going to do. Sometimes you have to feel the crowd and do the moves at the right time and know the timing and tell a good story.

Kurt Angle

Tags: Time Good You

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