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We were all novices. We really were. We didn't know a goddamn thing about doing a show. -- Jerome Robbins
Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters. -- Jean Toomer
As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people. -- Rose Wilder Lane
Neuroscientists are novices at deception. -- Teller
A novice always behaves with propriety. -- Martial
It is always the novice who exaggerates. -- C. S. Lewis
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code. -- Richard E. Pattis
As parents, I think we're always novices, and every day presents a new challenge. -- Ewen Bremner
I'm interested in harnessing the good will and distributed power of people, including novices. -- Jonathan Zittrain
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
Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices. -- Ramana Maharshi
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
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
We're novices. We have friends now who are part of the freshman class who in some cases have run for Congress two and three times before they won their seat. -- Max Burns
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
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
What has become clear is that Britain cannot trust the Conservatives to run the economy. Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice. -- Gordon Brown
The novice-friendly software is more like a misbehaving dog: it shits on the floor, it destroys things, and stinks - the novice-friendly software embodies the opposite of what computer people have dreamed of for decades: artificial stupidity. It's more human. -- Erik Naggum
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
Only losers and amateurs blame the cards. After all, cards don't care; they don't take sides, and they have no memory. They are blind justice holding her scales, and in the long run they'll tip evenly for the novice and the skilled alike. -- Lou Krieger
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
The experienced physician, mechanic, or physiologist looking at a wound, an engine, a microscopic preparation, "sees" things the novice does not see. If both, experts and laymen, were asked to make exact copies of what they see, their drawings would be quite different. -- Rudolf Arnheim
Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we are pushing out our babies. We are too often treated like babies having babies when we should be in training, like acolytes, novices to high priestesshood, like serious applicants for the space program. -- Louise Erdrich
Sometimes, the only way to learn something really well is to revert to the state of mind of a novice and reawaken to the raw observations that you have accumulated instead of relying on the conclusions you have reached from the exogenous premises absorbed through teaching and bookish learning. -- Erik Naggum
The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops, have a passing-out test for a novice. He is taken into a room full of all types of clothing and asked: Yo, my son, which of these is the most stylish thing to wear? And the correct answer is: Hey, whatever I select. -- Terry Pratchett
We arrive at the various stages of life quite as novices. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Loving is like any other art-craft where the masters have carefully practiced and where the novices have languished in their carelessness. -- Bryant McGill
The author points out that novices to total war, and this Hitler and the British press have in common, overreact to daily events and lose sight of overall strategy. -- William Manchester
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So most of the time when we are confronted by more, rather than a few, choices we're often novices and so we don't really know how to differentiate these various options. -- Sheena Iyengar

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