#beginner

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#beginner #being #call #comic #even

Begin. Keep on beginning. Nibble on everything. Take a hike. Teach yourself to whistle. Lie. The older you get the more they'll want your stories. Make them up. Talk to stones. Short-out electric fences. Swim with the sea turtle into the moon. Learn how to die. Eat moonshine pie. Drink wild geranium tea. Run naked in the rain. Everything that happens will happen and none of us will be safe from it. Pull up anchors. Sit close to the god of night. Lie still in a stream and breathe water. Climb to the top of the highest tree until you come to the branch where the blue heron sleeps. Eat poems for breakfast. Wear them on your forehead. Lick the mountain's bare shoulder. Measure the color of days around your mother's death. Put your hands over your face and listen to what they tell you. ↗

— Ellen Kort

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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few. ↗

— Shunryu Suzuki

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A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life. ↗

— Robin G. Collingwood

#becomes #beginner #ceases #given #going

Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets. ↗

— Josef Albers

#apprentice #beginner #craft #european #first

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. ↗

— Robert Frost

#beginners #business #market #modern #money

I can remember when, as a beginner, I was delighted with any ball as long as it would bounce. ↗

— Helen Wills Moody

#ball #beginner #bounce #delighted #i

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#again #apple #beginner #being #best

Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#artist #beginner #colors #down #especially

Playing along with records is key. And as far as equipment goes it has gotten so much more affordable and the drum sets are of great quality. I play Pearl; their Export Series is great for a beginner. ↗

— Chad Smith

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