#amateur

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#any #attached #before #being #freedom

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

Every artist was first an amateur. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#amateur #artist #every #first

For a long time, we've worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. It's time to move on to the next stage. ↗

— Andrew Gould

#detecting #even #existing #hand #long

The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur. ↗

— Tracy Austin

#because #first #i #money #place

If it weren't for radio programs like 'The George Jarkesy Show,' no one would know about 'The Amateur'. ↗

— Edward Klein

#amateur #george #know #like #programs

I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#amateur #believe #clearly #death #decipher

It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#amateur #british #brought #certainly #cricket

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells. ↗

— Grandma Moses

#artist #primitive #sells #whose #work

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#amateur #american #american politics #free #handed