Beginners Quotes

I think a critical part of being successful in our industry is having a beginner's mind

The expert at anything was once a beginner.

'Strive for peace with all men, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord' (Heb. 12:14), Why did he say 'strive'? Because it is not possible for us to become holy and to be saints in an hour! We must therefore progress from modest beginnings toward holiness and purity. Even were we to spend a thousand years in this life we should never perfectly attain it. Rather we must always struggle for it every day, as if mere beginners.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

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

Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important.

I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.

Resolve to be always beginning-to be a beginner!

Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.

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

What nobody tells people who are beginners… is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, and it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not… your taste is why your work disappoints you… We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this… It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.

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

It took time to learn that the hard thing about writing is to let the story write itself, while one sits at the typewriter and does as little thinking as possible. It happened over and over again, and the beginner learned - when you start puzzling over an idea, and slowing down on the keys, the writing gets worse and worse.

A search always starts with Beginner's Luck and ends with the Test of the Conqueror.

I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!

Every Chess master was once a beginner

Before you dismiss a beginner's work, remember how much you sucked when you started. You probably sucked worse, actually.

The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the experts, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all possibilities.

The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.

The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.

Stick to a task 'til it sticks to you. . .for beginners are many, but finishers few.

The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.

I'm always tryin' to do something new, tryin' to look like a beginner.

Miracles are for beginners.

Beginners are many; finishers are few.

An expert is a person who has few new ideas; a beginner is a person with many.

We are not beginners forever, but we never stop learning.

Every master was once a beginner. Every pro was once an amateur.

There never was a winner, who wasn't a beginner.

Be ready and willing to be a beginner every morning. That's how you grow and step into your greatness

Every expert was once a beginner.

Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

Even enlightened people think of themselves as beginners. They probably think of themselves as beginners more than others do - perpetual beginners who begin again each moment because their subject is endless.

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

Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.

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.

I hope that God forgive us, all of us sinners turn us back into beginners, put us up where the winners go, Holy apartments in the gardens in which the rivers flow, thank you for all your blessings and all of your miracles.

Any man will go considerably out of his way to pick up a silver dollar; but here are golden words, which the wisest men of antiquity have uttered, and whose worth the wise of every succeeding age have assured us of; and yet we learn to read only as far as Easy Reading, the primers and classbooks, and when we leave school, the Little Reading, and story books, which are for boys and beginners; and our reading, our conversation and thinking, are all on a very low level, worthy only of pygmies and manikins.

At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.

A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the theme of a symphony. Mozart suggested that a symphony was rather an ambitious project for a beginner: perhaps the young man might better try his hand at something simpler first. "But you were writing symphonies when you were my age." the student protested. "Yes, but I didn't have to ask how."

We explore within postures everything we deal with in life: the interplay between resistance and surrender; establishing stability and maintaining flexibility; learning to receive and release; being present to all the complexities of our lives, and returning to the fundamentals of our "beginner's mind" again and again.

Before His visible advent in the flesh the Logos of God dwelt among the patriarchs and prophets in a spiritual manner, prefiguring the mysteries of His advent. After His incarnation He is present in a similar way not only to those who are still beginners, nourishing them spiritually and leading them toward the maturity of divine perfection, but also to the perfect, secretly pre-delineating in them the features of His future advent as if in an ikon.

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.

The beginner's humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step.

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The skill and intellect required is whatever is available. Its accessibility to the performer is, in fact, something which appears to offend both its supporters and detractors....And as regards method, the improvisor employs the oldest in music-making...Mankind's first musical performance couldn't have been anything other than a free improvisation.

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

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. . .  Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist.  Give yourself permission to be a beginner.  By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one