Apprentice Quotes

• Only fools, pure theorists, or apprentices fail to take public opinion into account.

  Jacques Necker

  Public Opinion, Fool, Failing

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• Don't tell me the sky's the limit.

  Paul Brandt

  Inspirational, Moon, Sky

  Song: There's A World Out There, Album: That's the Truth, 1999

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• Everything you need you already have.

  Wayne Oates

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Needs

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• May the Force be with you.

  George Lucas

  Movie, Film History, Psychics

  Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

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• There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.

  Aaron Allston

  Sad, Two, People

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• Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.

  George Lucas

  Dark, Destiny, Forever

  George Lucas (2015). “ArtFolds: Yoda: Yoda and the Force”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

  George Lucas

  Change, War, Growth

  The Empire Strikes Back (motion picture) (1980).

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• I'm like a shark, right at the top of the food chain. I take what I want, when I want. I truly am the reflection of perfection.

  Ricky Martin

  Reflection, Sharks, Perfection

  "The Apprentice: Grace Dent's TV OD" by Grace Dent, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2012.

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• 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

  Years, Secret, Beginners

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• We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Humility, Crafts

  "New York Journal-American" Newspaper, July 11, 1961.

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• Jesus offers himself as God's doorway into the life that is truly life. Confidence in him leads us today, as in other times, to become his apprentices in eternal living. "Those who come though me will be safe," he said. "They will go in and out and find all they need. I have come into their world that they may have life, and life to the fullest.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Needs, World

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• My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin, like your uncle Gustav, she said. Would I pay heed? No. Apprentice to the Necromancer―

  Raymond E. Feist

  Mother, Uncles, Assassins

  Raymond E. Feist (1990). “Prince of the Blood”, Spectra

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• But now that she was my apprentice, every such thought caused a guilty twitch in my neck, as if someone had dropped a sleek, stinky ferret there. Guilt ferrets are bastards.

  Kevin Hearne

  Guilt, Ferrets, Necks

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.1055, Del Rey

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• I was an apprentice television engineer when I decided to pack it up and go full-time, much to my father's disgust. But I'm still interested and I like messing about with TV. I can't deny it ... TV engineering was the job I'd wanted at the time, and I got what I wanted. But in the long-term it would have been second best to being a musician.

  Peter Ham

  Jobs, Father, Engineering

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• You could see Newt Gingrich, who`s a member of Donald Trump`s country club, already getting together and talking about the new episode of "The Apprentice," with the poor kids in the city.This was a very smart thing to do. He shows that he is the grown-up in the Republican Party.

  Chris Matthews

  Country, Smart, Party

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Practice, Perfect

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.31, CCEL

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• Leo drummed his fingers. “Great. I should have installed a smoke screen that makes the ship smell like a giant chicken nugget. Remind me to invent that, next time.” Hazel frowned. “What is a chicken nugget?” “Oh, man…” Leo shook his head in amazement. “That's right. You’ve missed the last, like, seventy years. Well, my apprentice, a chicken nugget—” “Doesn’t matter,” Annabeth interrupted.

  Rick Riordan

  Men, Should Have, Years

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• I've always competed in those shows. Like, I won 'Fear Factor', I did 'I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here', I did 'The Mole', 'Celebrity Apprentice' with Donald Trump. I've done a lot of those shows, all in the hope of being a blessing to my mom's organization.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Mom, Blessing, Organization

  "Stephen Baldwin on 'I'm in Love With A Church Girl,' Ja Rule and Christianity in Hollywood (CP Exclusive)". Interview with Vincent Funaro, www.christianpost.com. October 24, 2013.

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• The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

  Barry Commoner

  Modern

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• At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.

  Richard Dooling

  Running, Intelligent, Mad

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• I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester

  John Thaw

  Jobs, Couple, School

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• A disciple is a learner, a student, an apprentice – a practitioner… Disciples of Jesus are people who do not just profess certain views as their own but apply their growing understanding of life in the Kingdom of the Heavens to every aspect of their life on earth.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Views, People

  Dallas Willard (2009). “The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus’s Essential Teachings on Discipleship”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.

  Robert Fripp

  Quality, Doe, Yes And No

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• Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick.

  Thomas Sydenham

  Learning, Science, Men

  Thomas Sydenham, Kenneth Dewhurst (1966). “Dr. Thomas Sydenham, 1624-1689: His Life and Original Writings”

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• I find it embarrassing when people compare me to Maradona. How can they? There is only one Maradona. People who say this just have no idea, they don't know what they are talking about. Diego was a complete one-off who will never have an equal on the football pitch. No-one, I repeat no-one, could have transformed teams like he did. Maradona was the world's greatest-ever player while I'm just an apprentice.

  Sergio Aguero

  Football, Team, Player

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