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Novice Traders trade 5 to 10 times too big. They are taking 5 to 10% risks on a trade they should be taking 1 to 2 percent risks. -- Bruce Kovner
The historic transition from Novice to Proficient to Adept was said to be accomplished virtually overnight by the progression from marijuana to peyote to lysergic acid. Instant mysticism had arrived. Before the court of law, hippies demanded freedom for LSD the way early Christians demanded freedom for the Eucharist. -- William Everson
I'm still a novice student. -- Ang Lee
I consider myself a novice film actor. -- James Earl Jones
Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life. -- Nicolas Chamfort
I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes. -- Lawrence Kasdan
You can always tell a novice rider; they aren't comfortable in the saddle and have to hang on. -- Harry Carey, Jr.
In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes. -- Adelbert von Chamisso
He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam. -- James Stockdale
I still feel like a novice when it comes to classical theater, but I don't ever want to become comfortable with anything. The greatest creativity comes from being nervous and uncomfortable. -- Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Working on a soap opera is such good training for the novice actor. No rehearsal, 120 pages of dialogue per week, and one take to get the scene right. No room for error. -- Dylan Bruce
The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice. -- Bill Budge
Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and it appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone - both to the novice and to the experienced physicist. -- Richard P. Feynman
In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers tell the readers everything about their characters in the first paragraphs, disclose their motives, reveal their recent activities and their future intentions. -- Ruth Rendell
Many novice writers, students in particular, think that writing is little more than copying down their self-talk, the palaver of the voices they hear in their heads. Of course, self-talk is thinking, and writing begins with thinking. -- Richard Rhodes
Cause I was such a novice and thank God that Sarah was as seasoned as she was because she was really a great leader in that regard in the sense that she would communicate really well with the crew. -- Charisma Carpenter
The experienced writer says to the anguished novice: 'Just do it; get something, anything, on to the screen or page, just establish a flow of words, and criticise them later.' You give this advice but can't always take it. -- Hilary Mantel
When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist. -- Andrea Mitchell
For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point. -- Frank Shorter
Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That's because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from. -- Robert Kiyosaki
When I became a novice monk, I lived in a temple where the atmosphere was quite like in a family. The abbot is like a father and other monks are like your big brothers, your small, younger brothers. It is a kind of family. -- Nhat Hanh
The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing. -- Eddie Rickenbacker
I think that I was lucky that I was 30 when I did 'Love Story', which came with this extravagant pop celebrity. I had already done 15 years of what I call 'real' work.' I was a waitress, chambermaid, and a photographer's assistant, so I knew that I was tremendously lucky as a novice actor to have that big hit. -- Ali MacGraw
I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it. -- Damon Albarn
A novice always behaves with propriety. -- Martial
It is always the novice who exaggerates. -- C. S. Lewis
Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice. -- Nicolas Chamfort
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things. -- Martial
He's a novice - he should keep his opinions to Japanese football -- Alex Ferguson
I'm all for apprenticeships, but this is no time for a novice. -- David Cameron
The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference. -- James F. Cooper
It is the 'Teacher', that shapes a novice; not only with his studies, but character too. -- Aniruddha Sastikar
Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless. -- Keith Jarrett
What you know will keep you from what you need to know if you don't remain a novice. -- Bill Johnson
Failure gives the bald hairs; equips the novice with experience. The learner, sooner or later, becomes a teacher by it. -- Ogwo David Emenike
It takes 5 to 7 years to turn a novice into a case officer capable of working in the capitals of the world. -- Tim Weiner
Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice. -- Quentin Crisp
Don't 'over-control' like a novice pilot. Stay loose enough from the flow that you can observe it, modify, and improve it. -- Donald Rumsfeld
There is always a half-malicious curiosity amongst actors to witness the shortcomings of a novice. They invariably experience strong inclinations to prophesy failure. -- Anna Cora Mowatt
We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice. -- Thomas S. Monson
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it. -- George Bernard Shaw
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It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office. -- Walt Whitman
Microsoft has laid down the foundations for next-generation computing and is the founder in terms of providing user-friendly software - thereby increasing the number of novice users. -- Arfa Karim
A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other. -- Epictetus
You had a lot of novice investors who got into the market looking for easy money, without any regard to the fundamentals. These stocks were running on fumes. -- Bernard Madoff
I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive. -- Abraham Maslow
When I first met you, you were just an annoying novice nurse. But I found out that you saved my life and now you're my little sister. Isn't it funny. -- Kim Young-kwang
I asked of Echo 't other day (Whose words are few and often funny), What to a novice she could say Of courtship, love, and matrimony. Quoth Echo, plainly, "Matter-o'-money. -- John Godfrey Saxe
I feel like a novice, just as I felt before I knew anything of the keyboard. It is far too original, and I shall end up not being able to learn it myself. -- Frederic Chopin
Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself. -- Santiago Ramon y Cajal
I have not drawn a very rosy picture of the magician. I did not intend to do so. To the novice entering the life and promising himself ease, indolence, and wealth, I should say, Don't! -- Alexander Herrmann

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