Beginners Quotes - Page 5

• The novice trader is at a disadvantage because the intuitions that he is going to have about the market are going to be the ones that are typical of beginners. The expert is someone who sees beyond those typical responses and has an understanding of the deeper workings of the market.

  Charles Faulkner

  Understanding, Intuition, Typical

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• The great souls who became mighty in prayer and rejoiced to spend three and four hours a day alone with God were once beginners.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Soul, Three

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• Instead of buying a guitar for $2,000 or $2,500 - I'm not sure how much these are going for - but it's maybe $300 or something like that. It's more for beginners and stuff like that. Obviously it's not hitting the pros. And you can't get the Piezo pickup and the color-changing paint and the inlays and all the fancy things that my signature guitars offer, but you can get the general feel of the guitar - and the body style. It's cool.

  John Petrucci

  Guitar, Color, Fancy Things

  Source: thehub.musiciansfriend.com

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• It seems the activity of expressing sound to do with music has just started blooming - and because of that, the beginners feel like they're professionals, and the professionals feel like they are beginners, which is very healthy.

  Ornette Coleman

  Healthy, Sound, Blooming

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• We explore within postures everything we deal with in life: the interplay between resistance and surrender; establishing stability and maintaining flexibility; learning to receive and release; being present to all the complexities of our lives, and returning to the fundamentals of our "beginner's mind" again and again.

  Brenda Strong

  Mind, Fundamentals, Resistance

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• So the most difficult thing is always to keep your beginner's mind. There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen. Even though you read much Zen literature, you must read each sentence with a fresh mind. You should not say, "I know what Zen is," or "I have attained enlightenment." This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner. Be very very careful about this point. If you start to practice zazen, you will begin to appreciate your beginner's mind. It is the secret of Zen practice.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Art, Real, Practice

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• There is what Steve Blank calls the stage where you are searching for a scalable business model. Then, there is the stage when you have found that model and need to scale it. In the former stage you have to have a "beginner's mind," be in learning mode, and expect to learn things you didn't anticipate.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Mind, Needs, Found

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Mind, Recipes

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• I've been making movies for a long time. The Japanese way of making movies has become second nature to me. To get away from that, I really try to surround myself with younger staff and approach making movies not like a veteran of the industry but always as a beginner and a rookie.

  Takashi Miike

  Long, Trying, Rookies

  Source: collider.com

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• Art ... is as much a source of happiness for the beginner as for the master. One forgets everything in one's work.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Art, Forget Everything, Source

  Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”

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• A beginner gets so excited when he hits the ball in the air or maybe hits a nice bunker shot. A player who has won major championships doesn't get that excited about those shots anymore. It takes a lot more to excite you. The closer you get to perfection, the more difficult it becomes. That's what draws me to golf. It's such a challenge.

  Stewart Cink

  Nice, Golf, Player

  "A conversation with PGA golfer Stewart Cink". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. January, 2012.

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• The beginner should approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away from all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style - all mannerisms, tricks, adornments. The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

  E. B. White

  Simplicity, Style, Orderliness

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.190, Cornell University Press

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• I would not be happy if I could not become a monk. They call it the beginner's mind - the deep intention, the deepest desire that a person may have. And I can say that until this day, this beginner's mind is still alive in me.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mind, Desire, Alive

  "Oprah Talks to Master Thich Nhat Hanh,the beloved buddhist Vietnamese monk:The Oprah's Exclusive Interview". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, onmogul.com.

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• I know that applause is food for the arts, but it ceases to be wholesome if administered indiscriminately; and the nutrition is so rich that, far from strengthening the constitution, it disturbs and enfeebles it. Stage beginners are similar to those children totally spoiled by the blind affection of their parents.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Art, Children, Parent

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• Any man will go considerably out of his way to pick up a silver dollar; but here are golden words, which the wisest men of antiquity have uttered, and whose worth the wise of every succeeding age have assured us of; and yet we learn to read only as far as Easy Reading, the primers and classbooks, and when we leave school, the Little Reading, and story books, which are for boys and beginners; and our reading, our conversation and thinking, are all on a very low level, worthy only of pygmies and manikins.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Book, Reading

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.168

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• Academic environments are generally characterised by the presence of peole who claim to understand more than in fact they do. Linguistic Philosophy has produced a great revolution, generating people who claim not to understand when in fact they do. Some achieve great virtuosity at it. Any beginner in philosophy can manage not to understand, say, Hegel, but I have heard people who were so advanced that they knew how not to understand writers of such limpid clarity as Bertrand Russell or A.J. Ayer.

  Ernest Gellner

  Philosophy, People, Revolution

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• A beginner with any native common sense can play passable Rummy.

  Albert H. Morehead

  Play, Common Sense, Native

  ALBERT H. MOREHEAD (1950). “FUN WITH GAMES OF RUMMY”

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• So, what does it mean for teaching and learning programming when the solution to every beginner problem is available on the Internet?

  Cay S. Horstmann

  Teaching, Mean, Doe

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• I thought yoga was easy - I went out and I bought a yoga video tape. I bought the beginners' yoga tape. I couldn't do anything on the whole hour - nothing - just fast forwarding: can't do that, can't do that - I know I can't do that. This woman in a soothing voice: 'Simply take the bottom of your right foot and place it on the small of your back.

  Brian Regan

  Yoga, Voice, Feet

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• The beginner hugs his infant poem to him and does not want it to grow up. But you may have to break your poem to remake it.

  May Sarton

  Growing Up, Hug, Doe

  May Sarton (2015). “Writings on Writing”, p.30, Open Road Media

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• Talent is important, and some background as well. This really is not beginner's school. I want to work with people that have achieved a certain level and with whom i can easily communicate, which means you don't have to do too much explaining so you won't waste precious time. I don't do much explaining during rehersals and we are just adjusting minor details. Simply, there is no space nor time for one to learn and each of them has to do their homework on time. That means practising, transitioning from a level to level.

  Vlatko Stefanovski

  School, Mean, Space

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• Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability. His specialty is rhythm songs which he renders in an undistinguished whine; his phrasing, if it can be called that, consists of the stereotyped variations that go with a beginner's aria in a bathroom. For the ear, he is an unutterable bore.

  Jack Gould

  Song, Singing, Variation

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• It just seemed to me so utterly wrong to credit someone's work just for the fact that this someone migrated from one place to another. We all move. We are all leavers and new beginners at some point, and yes, it is a huge leap from war to peace, from one language to another, from Boston, MA to Joplin, MO.

  Sasa Stanisic

  War, Moving, Boston

  "The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #3: Sasa Stanisic On The Danube". Interview with Michael Zelenko, therumpus.net. January 25, 2010.

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• Sanity and enlightenment...I've been reading a new book Dogen's Genjo Koan: Three Commentaries, and it contains a commentary on Genjo Koan by Shunryu Suzuki, the author who wrote Zen Mind, Beginners Mind. He doesn't mention sanity at all but I think that one possible definition of enlightenment would be a kind of profound sanity, where being insane is no longer an option.

  Brad Warner

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I love being a beginner. It can be a terrible feeling because you're ashamed of everything you do, but it's so exciting at the same time.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Love Is, Feelings, Ashamed

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

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