Jean Toomer
Poet, Novelist
"Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters."
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Novices
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Jerome Robbins
Choreographer, Director
"We were all novices. We really were. We didn't know a goddamn thing about doing a show."
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it."
Epictetus
Philosopher
"A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Writer
"We arrive at the various stages of life quite as novices."
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"What you know will keep you from what you need to know if you don't remain a novice."
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"It is always the novice who exaggerates."
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"What has become clear is that Britain cannot trust the Conservatives to run the economy. Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice."
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"The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops, have a passing-out test for a novice. He is taken into a room full of all types of clothing and asked: Yo, my son, which of these is the most stylish thing to wear? And the correct answer is: Hey, whatever I select."
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"Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That's because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from."
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"I feel like a novice, just as I felt before I knew anything of the keyboard. It is far too original, and I shall end up not being able to learn it myself."
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"So most of the time when we are confronted by more, rather than a few, choices we're often novices and so we don't really know how to differentiate these various options."
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"Against the censurers of brevity. - Something said briefly can be the fruit of much long thought: but the reader who is a novice in this field, and has as yet reflected on it not at all, sees in everything said briefly something embryonic, not without censuring the author for having served him up such immature and unripened fare."
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"UN is made even more complex by the constant interplay of politics and bureaucracy and can certainly be bewildering for a novice."
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