#amateur

A man must love a thing very much if he practices it without any hope of fame or money, but even practice it without any hope of doing it well. Such a man must love the toils of the work more than any other man can love the rewards of it. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#greatness #passion #love

Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the mastery of a profession. But in the field of photographic practice, it is the amateur, on the contrary, who is the assumption of the professional: for it is he who stands closer to the (i)noeme(i) of Photography. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#photography #photography

For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism. ↗

— Greg Bear

#been #before #costly #deadly #even

That's what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way. ↗

— Brian Boitano

#always #amateur #expertise #should #skating

As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up. ↗

— Jim Evans

#baseball #growing #growing up #i #league

Even now I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart. ↗

— Sergei Bubka

#even #even now #heart #i #keep

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#average #band #business #could #enrolled

Before the start of the '76 Olympics, I'd had 160 amateur fights. I won 155 and lost five. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#before #fights #five #had #i

Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset. ↗

— Simon van der Meer

#accelerator #amateur #approach #asset #been

I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur. ↗

— Patti Smith

#amateur #certain #contribution #how #i