#amateur

Two weeks ago at the U.S. Amateur, my mom caddied, and that is kind of a different feeling, because she's your mom and you have to listen to her. It was really comfortable having my mom there, but it's also really relieving and comfortable to have someone that knows the course off their hat, really. ↗

— Lydia Ko

#also #amateur #because #comfortable #course

I do small cameos here and there but nothing that requires more than a paragraph of talking, because I'm just an amateur. The movie is a whole different reality. ↗

— Richard Price

#because #cameos #different #here #i

An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#enable #him #himself #jobs #outside

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur. ↗

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

#amateur #approach #away #creative #creative spirit

I'm not going to talk like I know about politics, because I'm a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren't normally interested in politics. ↗

— Bjork

#amateur #because #going #i #i can

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be. ↗

— Edward Weston

#hard #hard work #how #matter #photography

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five. ↗

— James Whistler

#continue #critic #cry #five #four

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#against #amateur #back #because #discrimination

Amateur bureaucrats are often even worse than professional bureaucrats. ↗

— John McCarthy

#bureaucrats #even #even worse #often #professional

I began playing in the senior circuit when I was 15 and won the world senior amateur title the same year. ↗

— Jahangir Khan

#began #circuit #i #playing #same