Beginners Quotes - Page 3

• A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Horse, Learning, Science

  "The New Leviathan: Or Man, Society, Civilization and Barbarism". Book by Robin G. Collingwood, 1942.

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• Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds.

  Alexander Elder

  Business, Odds, Challenges

  Alexander Elder (2002). “Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading”, p.12, John Wiley & Sons

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• In Buddhism, what is known as beginner's mind is a way to look at the world as if for the first time: with interest, enthusiasm, and engagement. This may be the optimal state of mind for a healthy brain.

  Louis Cozolino

  Buddhism, Healthy, Brain

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• We are all beginners, it just takes some of us longer to realize it

  Chuck Miller

  Realizing

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• In the mind of the beginner, there are many possibilities. In the mind of the expert there are few.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Mind, Experts, Possibility

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• We strive always to have a beginner's mind.

  Marc Benioff

  Mind, Strive

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• Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.

  Sarah Kay

  Hard Work, Artist, Editing

  "How I got the courage to tell my story" by Sarah Kay, www.cnn.com. May 1, 2011.

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• Always be a beginner at something, and always be in love with what you are beginning.

  Bill Buxton

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• A fiery, good beginner always stands higher than a master in mediocrity.

  Robert Schumann

  Mediocrity, Masters, Higher

  Robert Schumann (1986). “Schumann: a self-portrait in his own words”

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• It's about doing things that you haven't done before, where you're still kind of a beginner, and not resting on your laurels.

  Caterina Fake

  Done, Kind, Laurels

  "Caterina Fake: How To Avoid The Pressure Of The Startup 'Sophomore Slump'". www.businessinsider.com. May 20, 2011.

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• If I may throw out a word of counsel to beginners, it is: Treasure your exceptions! When there are none, the work gets so dull that no one cares to carry it further. Keep them always uncovered and in sight. Exceptions are like the rough brickwork of a growing building which tells that there is more to come and shows where the next construction is to be.

  William Bateson

  Sight, Growing, Treasure

  William Bateson, Beatrice Durham Bateson (1928). “William Bateson, F. R. S., Naturalist: His Essays & Addresses, Together with a Short Account of His Life”, p.324, CUP Archive

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• When a beginner wins he feels brilliant and invincible Then he takes wild risk and loses everything.

  Alexander Elder

  Winning, Risk, Brilliant

  Alexander Elder (1993). “Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management”, p.11, John Wiley & Sons

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• I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Thinking, Joy, Inexperience

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• Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies.

  Ray Bradbury

  Eye, Ideas, Paws

  Ray Bradbury (1988). “Dandelion Wine”, p.3, Dramatic Publishing

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• Always be a beginner at something.

  Bill Buxton

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• It is a curious fact that out-of-door nature is to the beginner an enormously overloaded 'property room.' He sees, for instance, the myriad of leaves upon the tree long before he sees the tree at all.

  John F. Carlson

  Doors, Long, Tree

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• If he ever had a bright idea it would be beginner's luck.

  William Lashner

  Sarcastic, Ideas, Luck

  William Lashner (2009). “Bitter Truth”, p.65, Harper Collins

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• You need to have a beginner's mind to create bold innovation.

  Marc Benioff

  Innovation, Mind, Needs

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• You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.

  Tony Hoare

  Trust, Top Down, Ends

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• The more advanced the teacher, the better for you. The fifth degree black belt is so expert that they will understand that you're a beginner and throw you perfectly so that no harm will befall you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Black, Degrees

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• I hope that God forgive us, all of us sinners turn us back into beginners, put us up where the winners go, Holy apartments in the gardens in which the rivers flow, thank you for all your blessings and all of your miracles.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Blessing, Garden, Rivers

  Song: Fighters, Album: The Cool, 2007

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• Nobody tells people who are beginners - and I really wish somebody had told this to me - that all of us who do creative work... get into it because we have good taste.

  Ira Glass

  People, Creative, Wish

  "Radio Host Ira Glass: Even The Most Successful People Once Doubted Themselves" by Richard Feloni, www.businessinsider.com. June 24, 2014.

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• There must be, in any complete revelation of God's mind and will and character and being, things hard for the beginner to understand; and the wisest and best of us are but beginners.

  R. A. Torrey

  Character, Bible Reading, Mind

  R.A. Torrey (1997). “Difficulties In The Bible”, p.7, Whitaker House

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• Beginners focus on analysis, but professionals operate in a three dimensional space. They are aware of trading psychology their own feelings and the mass psychology of the markets.

  Alexander Elder

  Space, Focus, Psychology

  Alexander Elder (2002). “Come Into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading”, p.46, John Wiley & Sons

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• Is it important to have an enlightened teacher? No. Yes. If you are an absolute beginner, it really doesn't matter that much, to tell you the truth.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Important, Matter

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