#amateur

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. ↗

— Richard Bach

#professional #professional writer #quit #who #writer

My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist. ↗

— John E. Walker

#father #mason #pianist #stone #talented

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#article #college #compared #like #politician

We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#also #amateur #babe #babe ruth #baseball

Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats. ↗

— John McCarthy

#bureaucrats #even #even worse #often #professional

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. ↗

— David McCullough

#amateur #because #called #fairly #hand

My amateur interest in astronomy brought out the term 'magnitude,' which is used for the brightness of a star. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#astronomy #brightness #brought #interest #magnitude

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur. ↗

— Will Rogers

#athlete #college #earned #pro #should

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

We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that. ↗

— Jennifer Saunders

#amateur #bit #charm #first #involve