We're all amateurs when it comes to love. Don't be too hard on each other.
I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
Inspiration is for amateurs. professionals work everyday. Personally the best inspiration is a deadline.
It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people.
True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures—unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.
The amateurs discuss tactics: the professionals discuss logistics
History--the product, not the raw material--is a bottle with a label. For many years now, the emphasis of historical discussion has been laid upon the label (its iconography, its target-group of customers) and upon the interesting problems of manufacturing bottle-glass. The contents, on the other hand, are tasted in a knowing, perfunctory way and then spat out again. Only amateurs swallow them.
It is actually possible to become amateurs in suffering.
Bank robbery is an initiative of amateurs. True professionals establish a bank.
Jet lag is for amateurs.
[About John Evershed] There is much in our medallist's career which is a reminder of the scientific life of Sir William Huggins. They come from the same English neighbourhood and began as amateurs of the best kind. They both possess the same kind of scientific aptitude.
Amateurs believe their enthusiasm will suffice.
I love mixing amateurs and professionals.
Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work.
The best wood in most amateurs' bags is the pencil.
Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.
The Mafia and crime bosses of this world are amateurs compared to this syndicate, ruled by the prince of darkness and the master of deception who wears many disguises and has many aliases.
Amateurs hope. Professional work.
