Novices Quotes

• Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).

  Bill Gaede

  Moving, Realizing, Proof

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• Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

  Jean Toomer

  Masters

  Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

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• When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.

  Richard E. Pattis

  Quality, Experts, Debugging

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• In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Struggle, Ambition, Literature

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• We were all novices. We really were. We didn't know a goddamn thing about doing a show.

  Jerome Robbins

  Shows, Knows

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• When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.

  Andrea Mitchell

  War, Fire, Rights

  Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.67, Penguin

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• The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.

  Bill Budge

  Sitting, Use, Keyboards

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• In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

  Adelbert von Chamisso

  Character, Eye, Blue

  Adelbert von Chamisso (1845). “The Shadowless Man; Or, The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl”

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• He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.

  James Stockdale

  Leadership, Air, Vietnam

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• As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Learning, Thinking, Long

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• For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Running, Talking

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• What has become clear is that Britain cannot trust the Conservatives to run the economy. Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.

  Gordon Brown

  Running, Favour, Economy

  "Labour Conference: Gordon Brown's Speech in Full". www.telegraph.co.uk. September 23, 2008.

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• Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Life, Men, Stage

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• It is always the novice who exaggerates.

  C. S. Lewis

  Screwtape Letters

  C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

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• What you know will keep you from what you need to know if you don't remain a novice.

  Bill Johnson

  Needs, Knows, Ifs

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• The experienced physician, mechanic, or physiologist looking at a wound, an engine, a microscopic preparation, "sees" things the novice does not see. If both, experts and laymen, were asked to make exact copies of what they see, their drawings would be quite different.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Drawing, Preparation, Physicians

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Visual Thinking”, p.302, Univ of California Press

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• America is the largest corporation on the planet. You wouldn't hire a novice to run a similarly sized company in the private markets. My father has created more jobs through his private businesses than certainly any of the candidates. Mitt Romney has executive experience, but it's a different type. He didn't run entrepreneurial businesses.

  Ivanka Trump

  Running, Jobs, Father

  "Ivanka Trump: The Interview" by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 16, 2011.

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• I would not say I am looking for God. Or, I am not looking for God precisely. I am not seeking the God I learned about as a Catholic child, as an 18-year-old novice in a religious community, as an agnostic graduate student, as - but who cares about my disguises? Or God's.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Religious, Children, Years

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• Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.

  David Cameron

  Apprenticeship

  "Gordon Brown: 'We will be rock of stability and fairness'". Speech to the Labour Party conference, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2008.

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• I have recall. I don't know why or how. I had a guy once who said he played against me in novice [league, for kids under nine], for the Detroit Lasers. And I said, "Oh yeah, we beat you in the tournament, 8-1 and I think I scored seven goals, and the goalie was left-handed." And he was, "Oh my God. I was the goalie!" .

  Wayne Gretzky

  Kids, Thinking, League

  "Wayne Gretzky on the love of his life". Interview with Jonathon Gatehouse, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• I asked of Echo 't other day (Whose words are few and often funny), What to a novice she could say Of courtship, love, and matrimony. Quoth Echo, plainly, "Matter-o'-money.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Echoes, Matter, Matrimony

  John Godfrey Saxe (1866). “The Masquerade: And Other Poems”, p.195

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• Microsoft has laid down the foundations for next-generation computing and is the founder in terms of providing user-friendly software - thereby increasing the number of novice users.

  Arfa Karim

  Numbers, Friendly, Microsoft

  Source: arfakarim.wordpress.com

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• Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.

  Keith Jarrett

  Would Be, Attention, Surprise

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• 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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• Don't 'over-control' like a novice pilot. Stay loose enough from the flow that you can observe it, modify, and improve it.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Pilots, Flow, Enough

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