Beginners Quotes - Page 5

• At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners.

  Alice Fulton

  Intimacy, Imitation

  Alice Fulton, “About Face”

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• The whole secret to mastering the game of golf - and this applies to the beginner as well as the pro - is to cultivate a mental approach to the game that will enable you to shrug off the bad days, keep patient and know in your heart that sooner or later you will be back on top.

  Arnold Palmer

  Heart, Bad Day, Golf

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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

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• Beginner's luck is great for beginners.

  Robert Fripp

  Luck

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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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• Perfectionism doesn't believe in practice shots. It doesn't believe in improvement. Perfectionism has never heard that anything worth doing is worth doing badly--and that if we allow ourselves to do something badly we might in time become quite good at it. Perfectionism measures our beginner's work against the finished work of masters. Perfectionism thrives on comparison and competition. It doesn't know how to say, "Good try," or "Job well done." The critic does not believe in creative glee--or any glee at all, for that matter. No, perfectionism is a serious matter.

  Julia Cameron

  Jobs, Believe, Practice

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• The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

  Saint Augustine

  Way, Mature, Grows

  Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.40, Oxford Paperbacks

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• When you see runners in town is easy to distinguish beginners from veterans. The ones panting are beginners; the ones with quiet, measured breathing are the veterans. Their hearts, lost in thought, slowly tick away time. When we pass each other on the road, we listen to the rhythm of each other's breathing, and sense the way the other person is ticking away the moments.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Breathing, Way

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• You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare

  Erica Jong

  Writing, Knowing, Naked

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• Sharpie? A mischievous smile spread across her face. I thought you said you couldn't control your powers. Beginner's luck.

  Kami Garcia

  Luck, Faces, Said

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• The advice I have for beginners is the same philosophy that I have for runners of all levels of experience and ability -- consistency, a sane approach, moderation and making your running an enjoyable, rather than dreaded, part of your life.

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, Philosophy, Advice

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• The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative (eccentric) segment

  Dorian Yates

  Strength, Mistake, Motivational Workout

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• It is clear that there must be difficulties for us in a revelation such as the Bible. If someone were to hand me a book that was as simple to me as the multiplication table and say, “This is the Word of God; in it He has revealed His whole will and wisdom,” I would shake my head and say, “I cannot believe it; that is too easy to be a perfect revelation of infinite wisdom.” 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

  Bible, Believe, Book

  "Difficulties In The Bible".

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• Teach as an old fishing guide takes out a beginner.

  Theodore Roethke

  Teaching, Fishing, Guides

  Theodore Roethke, Carolyn Kizer (2013). “On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose”, p.133, Copper Canyon Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In Japan we have the phrase, "Shoshin," which means "beginner's mind." Our "original mind" includes everything within itself. It is always rich and sufficient within itself. This does not mean a closed mind, but actually an empty mind and a ready mind. If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything. It is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Mean, Japan, Empty Mind

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• Rowing is an absurdly simple sport. I can easily guide a beginner throught the right technical motions. The difficulty arises when the beginner attempts to repeat those motions on a bumpy race course, at 40 strokes a minute, with his heart rate zooming, and an opponent charging up his stern.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Sports, Heart, Simple

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• When I played basketball, I spent hours On the court practicing. When i became a body-builder, I was in the gym all the time. Like most beginners, I didn't really know what I was doing, but the more I did it, the more I loved it. I guess you could say I was a gym rat. Seeing my body change made me come back for more.

  Phil Heath

  Basketball, Bodybuilding, Gym Rats

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• Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Practice, Devotion

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Meditation and Its Methods”, p.56, editionNEXT.com

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• True art is creation, and creation is beyond all theories. That is why I say to any beginner: Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul. Not theories but your own creative individuality alone must decide.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Creative, Miracle

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• Beginners must master low stance and posture, natural body positions are for the advanced.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Body, Natural, Posture

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