Beginners Quotes - Page 9

• There are times when you may be overwhelmed by the teachings of the Way. At such moments, it is important to continue with the original spirit of a beginner.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Teaching, Important, May

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• There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are going.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Jesus, Experts, Company

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• I had a cigarette for breakfast, just for beginners,
  Cried for my lunch, and sleep for dinner.

  G. Dep

  Rap, Sleep, Lunch

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• It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

  Dodie Smith

  Beautiful, Simple, Sight

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• A knowledge of tactics is the foundation of positional play. This is a rule which has stood its test in chess history and one which we cannot impress forcibly enough upon the young chess player. A beginner should avoid Queen's Gambit and French Defence and play open games instead! While he may not win as many games at first, he will in the long run be amply compensated by acquiring a thorough knowledge of the game

  Richard Reti

  Running, Queens, Winning

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• Hitler was a beginner compared to the comic-book industry.

  Fredric Wertham

  Book, Comic, Industry

  "The Horror" by Louis Menand, www.newyorker.com. March 31, 2008.

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• In every art beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them. And it is not only a matter of looking at the drawings, paintings, musical compositions, and poems that have been and are being created; it is a matter of being drawn into the individual work of art, of realizing that it has been made by a real human being, and trying to discover the secret of its creation.

  Ruth Whitman

  Art, Real, Drawing

  Ruth Whitman (1982). “Becoming a poet: source, process, practice”, Writer

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• I don’t bring yesterday’s poses to today’s practice. I know yesterday’s poses, but when I practice today I become a beginner. I don’t want yesterday’s experience. I want to see what new understanding may come in addition to what I felt up to now.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Practice, Yesterday, Understanding

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