Volunteering has been undervalued in Britain for a long time. Often it has been seen as a kind of cut-price, amateur version of work that would be better done by the state. When politicians speak about it, people hear in the background the sound of budgets being cut.
Without professionalism I'd be an amateur, and the clients I want don't hire amateurs.
I'd like to see 'Top Chef: Amateur'. Sometimes we have an amateur chef on the show and they just can't cut it against the pros but there are some great stories there.
If you write for the New Yorker, you always get people critiquing your grammar, you can count on it. So, because a lot of New Yorker readers are kind of, you know, amateur grammarians and so you do get a lot of that.
I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.
Never refer to your wedding night as the original amateur hour.
My dad taught me how to play. He was a great amateur player in Curacao.
I hate to lose and even as an amateur I won every tournament I was in.
I was a gorilla boxer. I had a full gorilla suit on with boxing gloves. I had an amateur belt on. No one knew that it was me in the costume and I was going into stores and scaring people and boxing on them. It was fun.
There is also one excellent reason why the veriest amateur may feel entitled to have an opinion about education. For if we are not all professional teachers, we have all, at some time or other, been taught. Even if we learned nothing-perhaps in particular if we learned nothing-our contribution to the discussion may have a potential value.
I've played such good golf, and it was hard coming up and it wasn't easy in any matches or any shots. It means a lot. I think hopefully it will mean a lot to New Zealand because I'm the next winner of the U. S. Amateur after Danny Lee.
We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers.
I try very hard to tell stories and not lecture. I try to approach things as an amateur and not an expert, so that when I'm doing something, I'm starting out in a place a lot like where my readers start out - which is to say, naïve.
As an amateur, I couldn't get many fights. No one would fight me when I was a schoolboy.
Those amateur umpires are certainly flexing their fangs tonight.
In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.
I'm not putting down anyone that does look at their work in that way, but for me I am a hardcore amateur.
If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.
It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.
There's an awful video of me on YouTube. com, titled Dumas, her life is over! which was taped by some amateur during my first Olympic tryouts and has had quite a bit of traffic-like all videos of humiliated people do. This is where the exact moment that my life shattered around me was perfectly immortalized on film and can now be played and replayed, over and over, so the world can watch for their enjoyment.