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War - hard apprenticeship of freedom. -- Edward Everett Hale
Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words. -- Helen Dunmore
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve. -- Samuel Smiles
The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer. -- Russell Banks
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom. -- Amiri Baraka
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that. -- Chet Atkins
That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra. -- Anne Rice
There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians. -- Dave Van Ronk
I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art. -- Jane Rule
You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen. -- Jacques Pepin
No one as ever completed their apprenticeship. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life. -- Mary Caroline Richards
If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship. -- Irwin Shaw
Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else. -- Katherine Anne Porter
Apprenticeship is one of the dearest roles of childhood, not just watching Dad or Mother, but being taught a hands-on trade. -- Carol Bly
Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That takes a while. -- David Eddings
I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship. -- Aaron Eckhart
I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was an apprenticeship to books and not to living masters of the craft. -- Madison Smartt Bell
Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade. -- Simone Weil
When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don't realize, we still had tickets for butter, meat and so forth in France until 1947. It's not like the end of the war, everything was plentiful - it wasn't. -- Jacques Pepin
Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the outsiders, keep down the competition, preserve the image of a privileged or priestly class. The man who makes things clear is a scab. He is criticized less for his clarity than for his treachery. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else. -- Katherine Anne Porter
Somewhere along the line you've got to do your apprenticeship. But I'd want half a chance of being successful at it. -- Alan Shearer
If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn. -- Randy West
I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college. -- Christopher Reeve
Mittelstand companies are incredibly focused and almost always family-run. The young men and women go through the apprenticeship system and learn that the goal is excellence. -- Tom Peters
Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom. -- Linton Kwesi Johnson
I started track and field when I was 12 and didn't get to an Olympic Games until I was nearly 23. By any stretch of the imagination that's a very long apprenticeship. -- Sebastian Coe
We're like old people now playing music. I'm so glad we stuck it out because it's a lot better. I used to feel kind of anxious. Now our apprenticeship is over. -- Thurston Moore
At Sir-Tech I went through the ranks, almost like an apprenticeship. I was very fortunate. The industry was smaller then, and I was able to work alongside some amazing game designers. -- Brenda Brathwaite
The venture business is a bit of an apprenticeship business, so the firm I worked for didn't let me make an investment until I was 30. That was probably a very smart thing. -- Fred Wilson
Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties. -- Martin Filler
What greatly annoys me is sometimes you see the short story being described as a training ground for the novel. Kind of like an apprenticeship. And in lots of ways, it's a far harder form. -- Kevin Barry
From 1965 to 1974, I served the best possible apprenticeship for an actor. I learned firsthand how a truck driver lives, what a bartender does, how a salesman thinks. I had to make a life inside those jobs, not just pretend. -- Brian Dennehy
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total. -- A. J. Liebling
When I was 13, I entered the seminary in the hope of becoming a priest. But I often found myself helping the nuns in the kitchen and thus discovered my passion for cooking. I began to cultivate my skills and aspirations at the age of 15, when I embarked on my first apprenticeship. -- Joel Robuchon
I come from a family with a long tradition in shoemaking, and I still live in a region famous for its shoemakers. It is getting harder and harder to find skilled workers. There are no professional training institutes, so we have to train our own employees. And an apprenticeship takes three years. -- Diego Della Valle
Education is the apprenticeship of life -- Robert Aris Willmott
Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self. -- Cynthia Ozick
And an apprenticeship to whatever gadgetry is useful in a technical world -- Jacques Ellul
There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve. -- Dallas Willard
I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie. -- Sam Mendes
God designed the program of prayer as an 'apprenticeship' for eternal sovereignty with Christ. -- Paul Billheimer
Nobody should be allowed to create general advertising until he has served his apprenticeship in direct-response -- David Ogilvy
I learned through apprenticeship. I was an assistant to a defensive coach, and I'm still learning. -- Brendan Daly
Nothing substitutes a large apprenticeship, a heap of experiences which converts into the base of intuition. -- Doug Scott
We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue. -- Simone Weil
A severe apprenticeship in the trade of praying must be served in order to become a journeyman in it. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe... -- Ariel Durant
I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship. -- Helene Cixous
There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual. -- John Constable
This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty. -- William Mountford
If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in apprenticeship and on trial. -- Michel de Montaigne
Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham Greene as influences. -- Giles Foden
I wanted to be a writer and an artist. Learning to type as quickly as I could think was a needed skill and part of my long self-directed apprenticeship. -- Jeffrey Zeldman
As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned a lot about my trade. -- James A. Michener
To live is nothing more than to come here to die, to be what we were before being born, but with apprenticeship, experience, knowledge of cause, and perhaps with will. -- Juan Ramon Jimenez
So, if you haven't picked up some tips during an apprenticeship like that, you shouldn't be directing. It doesn't mean you can do it, but it loads you up with information. -- Colin Firth
Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world. -- Thomas Carlyle
Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it... -- Mark Twain

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