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  • Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. -- Robert Frost
  • Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
  • There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Beginners are many; finishers are few. -- Stephen Covey
  • Every Chess master was once a beginner -- Irving Chernev
  • Be willing to be a beginner every single morning. -- Meister Eckhart
  • I'm always tryin' to do something new, tryin' to look like a beginner. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
  • The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist. -- Julia Cameron
  • Beginners must master low stance and posture, natural body positions are for the advanced. -- Gichin Funakoshi
  • In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few. -- Shunryu Suzuki
  • Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important. -- Mariel Hemingway
  • Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • I can remember when, as a beginner, I was delighted with any ball as long as it would bounce. -- Helen Wills Moody
  • I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners." Jace flipped a page. "Very funny, Fray. -- Cassandra Clare
  • If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography. -- Edward Weston
  • I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera. -- Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner. -- Jerry Seinfeld
  • The beginner's humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step. -- Julia Cameron
  • In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you. -- Len Wein
  • [On golf:] ... though aware I could never be more than a humble potterer, it was impossible to repress the wild upsurgings of hope known to all middle-aged beginners ... -- Ethel Smyth
  • Beginners focus on analysis, but professionals operate in a three dimensional space. They are aware of trading psychology their own feelings and the mass psychology of the markets. -- Alexander Elder
  • Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks - No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard's excellent Tennis for Beginners. -- Henry Beard
  • 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. -- Robin G. Collingwood
  • Donegan Bane and Gracious O'Callahan - the Monster Hunters. Adventurers, inventors, authors of Monster Hunting for Beginners and it's sequels, Monster Hunting for Beginners is Probably Inadvisable and Seriously, Dude, Stop Monster Hunting. -- Derek Landy
  • You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you. -- Barbara Sher
  • One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults. -- Melanie Klein
  • Playing along with records is key. And as far as equipment goes it has gotten so much more affordable and the drum sets are of great quality. I play Pearl; their Export Series is great for a beginner. -- Chad Smith
  • Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets. -- Josef Albers
  • When you see runners in town is easy to distinguish beginners from veterans. The ones panting are beginners; the ones with quiet, measured breathing are the veterans. Their hearts, lost in thought, slowly tick away time. When we pass each other on the road, we listen to the rhythm of each other's breathing, and sense the way the other person is ticking away the moments. -- Haruki Murakami
  • Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists. -- Sarah Kay
  • But beginners to the World Economics Forum have to understand there is no single Davos experience, and there is no single Davos community either. There are numerous tribes who interact only at a minimal level. -- Evan Davis
  • At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river. -- Bob Edwards
  • One mistake with beginners in writing is, that they think it important to spin out something long. It is a great deal better not to write more than a page or two, unless you have something to say, and can write it correctly. -- Lucy Larcom
  • I've often said that while gaining muscle can be very difficult, it's also pretty simple - at the heart of it, you just need to take in more energy than you expend, and use an intelligent program. This is especially true for beginners. -- John Romaniello
  • I've always known that I love directing but I was really aware of it while making 'Beginners.' I am my happiest when I'm on set directing. I am also my kindest. When the actors get in front of the camera, it makes them very vulnerable. I am so in love with them for trying so hard. -- Mike Mills
  • Miracles are for beginners. -- C. S. Lewis
  • Beginner's luck is great for beginners. -- Robert Fripp
  • In spiritual matters we remain beginners. -- Morton T. Kelsey
  • Italy is not a country for beginners. -- Tim Parks
  • We are not beginners forever, but we never stop learning. -- Sandra Scofield
  • In the company of Jesus there are no experts, only beginners -- Jason Upton
  • At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners. -- Alice Fulton
  • You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up. -- Tony Hoare
  • We are all beginners, it just takes some of us longer to realize it -- Chuck Miller
  • Stick to a task 'til it sticks to you. . .for beginners are many, but finishers few. -- Thomas S. Monson
  • The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them. -- Saint Augustine
  • I had a cigarette for breakfast, just for beginners, Cried for my lunch, and sleep for dinner. -- G. Dep
  • Most beginners are too anxious for results. Real progress takes place over a long period of time. -- Mary Beth McKenzie
  • In every art, beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. -- Ruth Whitman
  • Sometimes, the experts forget they were once beginners.You must be gentle with beginners; they have great potential to be experts. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
  • It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns. -- Dodie Smith
  • By inconsistency and frivolity we stray from the Way and show ourselves to be beginners. In this we do much harm. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone--beginners, children, and non-musiciansâ?¦ -- Derek Bailey
  • The great souls who became mighty in prayer and rejoiced to spend three and four hours a day alone with God were once beginners. -- Samuel Chadwick
  • Transformation, on the other hand, is creating beauty from horror or destruction (or, for beginners, an actually pleasant evening with the usual family problems). -- Darrell Calkins
  • We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life! -- Thomas Merton
  • When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea. -- Isaac Asimov
  • When we're impatient with beginners around us, we would do well to sign up for a class in scuba diving, ballroom dancing or anything else totally brand-new for us. -- Susan Collins
  • Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers. -- Gilbert Highet
  • The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative (eccentric) segment -- Dorian Yates
  • Even enlightened people think of themselves as beginners. They probably think of themselves as beginners more than others do - perpetual beginners who begin again each moment because their subject is endless. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • Have the right attitude in advanced practice. Feel that you are always a beginner in Zen. They refer to it as "beginners mind". I feel I am a beginner, always; because it's true. -- Frederick Lenz
  • There must be, in any complete revelation of God's mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to understand; and the wisest and best of us are but beginners. -- R. A. Torrey
  • Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us who do creative work... get into it because we have good taste. -- Ira Glass
  • Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner. -- Aldous Huxley
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