Beginners Quotes - Page 2

• There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell (1983). “The notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge”, Random House (NY)

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• One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.

  Melanie Klein

  Children, Interesting, Adults

  Melanie Klein, Juliet Mitchell (1987). “Selected Melanie Klein”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you.

  Len Wein

  People, Lenses, Might

  "Speaking with...LEN WEIN PART ONE". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. . .  Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist.  Give yourself permission to be a beginner.  By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one

  Julia Cameron

  Artist, Order, Giving

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• I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.

  Amby Burfoot

  Sports, Running, Heart

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• A search always starts with Beginner's Luck and ends with the Test of the Conqueror.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Luck

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• It took time to learn that the hard thing about writing is to let the story write itself, while one sits at the typewriter and does as little thinking as possible. It happened over and over again, and the beginner learned - when you start puzzling over an idea, and slowing down on the keys, the writing gets worse and worse.

  Richard Bach

  Writing, Thinking, Keys

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• Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Trials, Poet

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• What nobody tells people who are beginners… is that all of us who do
  creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap.
  For the first couple years you make stuff, and it’s just not that good. It’s
  trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not… your taste is why your work
  disappoints you… We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want
  it to have. We all go through this… It is only by going through a volume of work
  that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your
  ambitions.

  Ira Glass

  Couple, Ambition, Years

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• Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  "Oprah Talks to Jerry Seinfeld". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November, 2007.

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• Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  People, Young, Knows

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.37, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I can remember when, as a beginner, I was delighted with any ball as long as it would bounce.

  Helen Wills

  Long, Balls, Remember

  HELEN WILLS “TENNIS”

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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, Crafts

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• Resolve to be always beginning-to be a beginner!

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Resolve

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.

  Ian Hamilton Finlay

  Past, Trying, Different

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• Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Yoga, Class, Understanding

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• Playing along with records is key. And as far as equipment goes it has gotten so much more affordable and the drum sets are of great quality. I play Pearl; their Export Series is great for a beginner.

  Chad Smith

  Keys, Play, Quality

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• Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Artist, Color, Sixteen

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• Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Home, Heaven

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• Even enlightened people think of themselves as beginners. They probably think of themselves as beginners more than others do - perpetual beginners who begin again each moment because their subject is endless.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Thinking, People

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• 'Strive for peace with all men, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord' (Heb. 12:14), Why did he say 'strive'? Because it is not possible for us to become holy and to be saints in an hour! We must therefore progress from modest beginnings toward holiness and purity. Even were we to spend a thousand years in this life we should never perfectly attain it. Rather we must always struggle for it every day, as if mere beginners.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Struggle, Men

  Saint Symeon (the New Theologian) (1980). “Symeon New Theologian”, p.91, Paulist Press

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• Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

  Percival Lowell

  Learning, Science, Aquariums

  Percival Lowell (1903). “The Solar System: Six Lectures Delivered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in December, 1902”

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• The expert at anything was once a beginner.

  Helen Hayes

  Motivational, Teacher, Experts

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• I think a critical part of being successful in our industry is having a beginner's mind

  Marc Benioff

  Successful, Thinking, Mind

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• Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

  Robert B. Parker

  Funny, Writing, People

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