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Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don't be afraid to take that first step.
Muhammad Ali
Even the most accomplished started from nothing; don't be hesitant to take the initial plunge.
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Beginners must master low stance and posture, natural body positions are for the advanced.
Gichin Funakoshi
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The king, which during the opening and middlegame stage is often a burden because it has to be defended, becomes in the endgame a very important and aggressive piece, and the beginner should realize this, and utilize his king as much as possible.
Jose Raul Capablanca
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In every art, beginners must start with models of those who have practiced the same art before them.
Ruth Whitman
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There are times when you may be overwhelmed by the teachings of the Way. At such moments, it is important to continue with the original spirit of a beginner.
Morihei Ueshiba
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When a beginner wins he feels brilliant and invincible Then he takes wild risk and loses everything.
Alexander Elder
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There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are going.
Eugene H. Peterson
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The beginner should not be discouraged if he finds he does not have the prerequisites for reading the prerequisites.
Paul Halmos
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Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks - No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard's excellent Tennis for Beginners.
Henry Beard
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It's about doing things that you haven't done before, where you're still kind of a beginner, and not resting on your laurels.
Caterina Fake
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When people ask me how they should approach performance, I always tell them the professional musician should aspire to the state of the beginner.
Yo-Yo Ma
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I still regard myself as an amateur today and I hope that's what I'll stay until the end of my life. Because I'm forever a beginner who discovers the world again and again.
Andre Kertesz
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A kung fu man lives without being dependant on the opinions of others, and a master, unlike the beginner, holds himself in reserve. He is quiet and unassuming, with no desire to show off.
Bruce Lee
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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
Saint Augustine
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Stick to a task 'til it sticks to you. . .for beginners are many, but finishers few.
Thomas S. Monson
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Be ready and willing to be a beginner every morning. That's how you grow and step into your greatness
Joel Brown
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If I may throw out a word of counsel to beginners, it is: Treasure your exceptions! When there are none, the work gets so dull that no one cares to carry it further. Keep them always uncovered and in sight. Exceptions are like the rough brickwork of a growing building which tells that there is more to come and shows where the next construction is to be.
William Bateson
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A fiery, good beginner always stands higher than a master in mediocrity.
Robert Schumann
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Hitler was a beginner compared to the comic-book industry.
Fredric Wertham
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Every master was once a beginner. Every pro was once an amateur.
Robin Sharma
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You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up.
Tony Hoare
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An expert is a person who has few new ideas; a beginner is a person with many.
Albert Einstein
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The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.
Shunryu Suzuki
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The beginner should approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away from all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style - all mannerisms, tricks, adornments. The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.
E. B. White
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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Robert Frost
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There’s a phrase in Buddhism, ‘Beginner’s mind.’ It’s wonderful to have a beginner’s mind.
Steve Jobs
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I love being a beginner. It can be a terrible feeling because you're ashamed of everything you do, but it's so exciting at the same time.
Charlotte Gainsbourg
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
Erica Jong
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We urge the beginner in security buying not to waste his efforts and his money in trying to beat the market. Let him study security values and initially test out his judgment on price versus value with the smallest possible sums.
Benjamin Graham
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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!
Thomas Merton
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There never was a winner, who wasn't a beginner.
Denis Waitley
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When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting achievements too fabricated. It is the beginners and intermediates who carry this heavy and unnecessary burden, who involve themselves to the point of becoming neurotics.
Paul Brunton
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Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
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I can remember when, as a beginner, I was delighted with any ball as long as it would bounce.
Helen Wills
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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
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Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.
Paulo Coelho
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That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn. With their whole being, with all their forces, gathered around their solitary, anxious, upward-beating heart, they must learn to love.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Art ... is as much a source of happiness for the beginner as for the master. One forgets everything in one's work.
Marie Bashkirtseff
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In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you.
Len Wein
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I've been making movies for a long time. The Japanese way of making movies has become second nature to me. To get away from that, I really try to surround myself with younger staff and approach making movies not like a veteran of the industry but always as a beginner and a rookie.
Takashi Miike
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It seems the activity of expressing sound to do with music has just started blooming - and because of that, the beginners feel like they're professionals, and the professionals feel like they are beginners, which is very healthy.
Ornette Coleman
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I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners." Jace flipped a page. "Very funny, Fray.
Cassandra Clare