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Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we're thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don't show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin', no matter what.
Steven Pressfield
Work
Adversity
Problem
Procrastination
Fear
Matter
Defeat
Thinking
Mindset
Out
Struggling
He
Like
Self-Doubt
Does
Amateur
His
Up
Pro
Crap
Etc
Them
Turning
Show
Shows
Keeps
Differently
Thinks
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
Work
Hard Work
Photography
Matter
Too
Pleasurable
Recreation
How
Amateur
Hard
Professional
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
Alvin Toffler
Parenting
Single
Parenthood
Remains
Greatest
Amateur
Preserve
Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.
Donald Rumsfeld
Best
Guidance
People
Country
Move On
White
White House
Back
Give
Select
Wrong
Performance
Feels
Sharper
Hour
House
Occur
Amateur
Fit
Errors
Train
Persist
Afford
Move
Depends
Cannot
Them
Your
Help
Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Temperament
Amateur
Afflicts
Disease
Artistic
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw
Music
Hell
Musical
Amateur
Hell Is
Full
I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.
Elliott Erwitt
Better
Think
Photographer
Pictures
Amateur
Maybe
Being
Apart
Professional
Every orchid or rose or lizard or snake is the work of a dedicated and skilled breeder. There are thousands of people, amateurs and professionals, who devote their lives to this business. Now imagine what will happen when the tools of genetic engineering become accessible to these people.
Freeman Dyson
Work
Business
People
Will
Become
Snake
Rose
Engineering
Every
Tools
Thousands
Thousands Of People
Genetic
Genetic Engineering
Devote
Accessible
Amateur
Happen
Skilled
Dedicated
Who
Now
Professionals
Lives
Lizard
Imagine
I set myself challenges every time I work. Ideally, I approach everything as though it's the first time - with a beginner's mind and an amateur's love.
Willem Dafoe
Work
Love
Time
Myself
Challenges
Mind
First
Every
Every Time
Approach
Everything
Though
Ideally
First Time
Amateur
Beginner
Set
I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something.
Alan Alda
Kid
Something
Inventing
Inventor
Always
Amateur
Used
I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
Alan Greenspan
Music
Good
Business
Band
Music Business
Enrolled
Rise
Only
Could
Soon
New
Limit
How
How Far
Amateur
Left
York
New York
Far
Average
Realized
Professional
University
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading. So I made an economic decision, and it turned out the best judgment I ever made in my life.
Alan Greenspan
Life
Best
Good
Business
Decision
Made
My Life
Big
Judgment
Band
Saw
Musician
Out
One Thing
Economic
Fading
Fairly
Big Band
Amateur
The One Thing
Average
Turned
Professional
Ever
Thing
I started wrestling when I was eight years old with the amateur wrestling team in Mexico.
Alberto Del Rio
Old
Wrestling
Amateur
Years
Mexico
Eight
Team
Started
I used to box a bit, and once fought as an amateur welterweight.
Alexander Hanson
Once
Bit
Box
Amateur
Used
Fought
Later in July I'm going to be promoting and putting on a boxing show of amateur fighters from July 21st through the 28th where one hundred kids will be fighting and competing with each other to see who's going to be the best.
Alexis Arguello
Best
Will
Fighting
Other
Hundred
Later
Kids
Promoting
See
Through
Putting
Boxing
Amateur
July
Going
Where
Fighters
Show
Each
Competing
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
Good
Creative
Heart
Photography
Humble
Every
Approach
Once
Willingness
Spirit
Remain
Fades
Naive
Learn
Always
Amateur
His
Dies
Should
Professional
Creative Spirit
Away
My mom had struggles. My dad had struggles. He raised me as a single parent. I rebelled and almost quit amateur boxing, but my faith in God had a lot to do with me slowly getting my life together.
Andre Ward
Life
God
Faith
Mom
Me
Together
My Life
Single
Slowly
Parent
Struggles
Had
He
Almost
Boxing
Single Parent
Amateur
Lot
Quit
Getting
Rebelled
Dad
Raised
I talk to amateurs, up-and-coming guys, fighters older than me, and we compare notes to teach each other how to leave this game on top from a legacy and financial standpoint.
Andre Ward
Me
Game
Financial
Older
Other
Top
Guys
Talk
How
Amateur
Leave
Up-And-Coming
Legacy
Than
Notes
Teach
Fighters
Standpoint
Each
Compare
A friend of mine once, when I was 11 years old, mentioned that there was a youth theater, a local amateur youth theater nearby where young people could go every Sunday. And that's where it began, really.
Aneurin Barnard
Youth
People
Old
Sunday
Young
Every
Every Sunday
Local
Once
Mine
Mentioned
Could
Amateur
Go
Years
Friend
Began
Where
Theater
Young People
Really
Nearby
I would like to attribute my range of interests to being an independent intellectual, but although I'm independent, I'm not sure I qualify as an intellectual. Basically, I'm an old-fashioned amateur.
Anne Fadiman
Range
Independent
Would
Like
Qualify
Attribute
Sure
Although
Amateur
Intellectual
Being
Interests
Old-Fashioned
Basically
The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
Anne Tyler
Character
Marriage
Opportunities
Reflection
Unhappy
Differences
Out
Must
Surely
Amateur
Grew
Richest
Show
I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.
Anne Tyler
Me
Remember
Wait
Walk
Thinking
Babies
License
About
Beans
Hospital
Know
Him
Amateur
Leaving
Off
Going
Just
Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
Avery Brundage
Entertainment
Sports
Must
Sport
Amateur
Professionally
Played
Jessie Wallace was the first time I erupted. She was late, she was young. She's not like that any more. I lost my temper. It was silly and I burst into tears and ran up to the producer. I said I had been terrible and amateur.
Barbara Windsor
Time
Tears
First
Lost
Young
Late
Ran
Temper
Silly
More
Had
Like
She
Terrible
First Time
Said
Amateur
Been
Up
Wallace
Any
Burst
Producer
I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.
Barry Humphries
Website
Facebook
Never
Looked
Because
Amateur
Page
Fundamentally
I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor.
Ben Affleck
Photographer
Writer
Amateur
Actor
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