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#apprentice

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If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship. ↗


— Irwin Shaw


#apprenticeship #enough #kind #marvelous #period

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve. ↗


— Samuel Smiles


#difficulty #greatest #had #men #serve

War - hard apprenticeship of freedom. ↗


— Edward Everett Hale


#freedom #hard #war

Butterfly?" Will said. "Why Butterfly?" "I believe it's a term of great respect," Selethen said gravely. He was very obviously not laughing. Too obviously, Will thought. "It's all right for you," he said. "They called you 'Hawk.' Hawk is an excellent name. It's warlike and noble. But....Butterfly? Selethen nodded. "I agree that Hawk is an entirely suitable name. I assume it had to do with my courage and nobility of heart. Halt coughed and the Arridi lord looked at him, eyebrows raised. "I think it referred less to your heart and more to another part of your body," Halt said mildly. He tapped his finger meaningfully along the side of his nose. It was a gesture he'd always wanted an opportunity to use, and this one was to good to miss. Selethen sniffed and turned away, affecting not to notice. ↗


— John Flanagan


#nickname #ranger-s-apprentice #courage

Gundar seemed to come to a decision. "Well, as my old mam used to say, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it's probably a duck." "Very wise," Halt said. "And what exactly do your mother's words of wisdom have to do with this situation?" Gundar shrugged. "It looks like a channel. It's the right place for a channel. If I were digging one, this is where I'd dig a channel. So. . ." "So it's probably the channel?" Selethen said. Gundar grinned at him. "Either that or it's a duck. ↗


— John Flanagan


#rangers-apprentice #sayings #funny

Is he a scumbag in training?” Richard glanced at the gunman. “At least have the decency to hold the gun properly, you fool. If you don’t know how, pass it to someone who does. I’m not going to suffer being shot at by anything less than a full- fledged lowlife. (Richard) ↗


— Ilona Andrews


#gun #humor #lowlife #scumbag #humor

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that. ↗


— Chet Atkins


#apprenticeship #formula #give #i #logical

I am just an apprentice. ↗


— Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark


#apprentice #i #i am #just

I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff. ↗


— Kazuo Ishiguro


#already #apprenticeship #autobiographical #been #experimental

There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians. ↗


— Dave Van Ronk


#even #felt #help #jazz #likable






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