(82 quotes found)
“If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.”
Red Adair
“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”
Richard Bach
“When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.”
Will Rogers
“I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.”
Alan Greenspan
“Professionals built the Titanic, amateurs the ark”
Frank Pepper
“The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil”
Chi Chi Rodriguez
“Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.”
Marshall McLuhan
“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
“[Noting the new digital camera would enable him to] finally catch up with the amateur consumer market, ... This is it. This is the revolution, and I'm in the middle of it. It's a great time to be alive.”
George Lucas
“That´s what all we are. Amateurs. We don´t live long enough to be anything else.”
Charlie Chaplin
