Top Amateur Quotes
If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.
Red Adair
Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.
John E. Walker
I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he's also an 'amateur' in the pure sense of the word.
John Sexton
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
Henry Bessemer 
Bjork 
Guido van Rossum 
Karrie Webb 
Brian Boitano 
Richard Price 
Edward Weston 
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If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.
Red Adair 
76% of people like this quote
My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.
John E. Walker
63% of people like this quote
I think the greatest photographers are the amateur photographers who do it because they love it. Arnold Newman is a good example; he is a consummate professional, but he's also an 'amateur' in the pure sense of the word.
John Sexton
59% of people like this quote
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
58% of people like this quote
There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business.
Ethel Waters
57% of people like this quote
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
57% of people like this quote
I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22.
Richard Briers
56% of people like this quote
The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.
Lytton Strachey
55% of people like this quote
My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.
Lasse Hallstrom
55% of people like this quote
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