Apprenticeship Quotes

• A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

  Chet Atkins

  Long, Giving, Alternatives

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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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• Nothing substitutes a large apprenticeship, a heap of experiences which converts into the base of intuition.

  Doug Scott

  Climbing, Intuition, Substitutes

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• Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Practice, Two, World

  Thomas Carlyle (1862). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.126

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• Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

  Mark Twain

  Hard Work, Writing, Genuine

  Mark Twain, R. Kent Rasmussen (1997). “The quotable Mark Twain: his essential aphorisms, witticisms & concise opinions”, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary

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• Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Time, Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.403, Library of America

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• The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

  Aristotle

  Peace, Philosophical, Logical Reasoning

  James McLean Watson, Aristotle (1909). “Aristotle's criticisms of Plato”

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  Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hard Work, Love Is, Long

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2003). “Brothers Karamazov”, p.428, Bantam Classics

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• I want to invest in community colleges, training programs, and high-quality apprenticeships that help people gain the skills they need for the jobs of the future.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, College, Skills

  "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Discuss Student Debt, Immigration, and More". Interview with Judith Ohikuare, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 11, 2016.

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• There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual.

  John Constable

  Art, Boys, Long

  John Constable (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)”, p.564, Delphi Classics

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• All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

  Mary Caroline Richards

  Life, Spiritual, Art

  Mary Caroline Richards (2011). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.41, Wesleyan University Press

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• I feel strongly that we have to have an education system that starts with preschool and goes through college. That's why I want more technical education in high schools and in community colleges, real apprenticeships to prepare young people for the jobs of the future.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Real, School

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.

  Simone Weil

  Running, Real, Teaching

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.34, Routledge

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• The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Adversity, Men

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.350

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• No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Learning, Experience

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• Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties.

  Martin Filler

  Twenties, Architecture, Century

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• The time between Bachelor's degree and a PhD, the median time is over 11 years. So then you're still only on a tenure ladder, you're not tenured. So it generally takes 6 to 8 years after that to get tenure. So that's a very long period of what's essentially apprenticeship, of insecurity.

  Louis Menand

  Years, Long, Insecurity

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

  Russell Banks

  Writing, Program, Best Things

  Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

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• There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Musician, Helping, Jazz

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• The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

  A. J. Liebling

  Food, Writing, Cooking

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.27, Macmillan

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• Most people won't realise that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Writing, People, Crafts

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• I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.

  Sam Mendes

  Years, Feels, Bond Movie

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• I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Sep 05, 2011

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• Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

  Linton Kwesi Johnson

  Voice, Resistance, Spirit

  "Trust between the police and the black community is still broken" by Linton Kwesi Johnson, www.theguardian.com.

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• The big art is our life.

  Mary Caroline Richards

  Art, Healing, Teens

  Mary Caroline Richards (2011). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.41, Wesleyan University Press

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