{"quotes":[{"text":"Ideas are not in textbooks and journals, Ideas are more deeper than the shallow written works of men. You are the idea that comes like an idea.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["amateur","books","dark-knowledge","deep","encompassing","higher","higher-pursuit","idea","shallowness","unskilled","writing"],"id":43417,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"The study of Scripture I find to be quite like mastering an instrument. No one is so good that they cannot get any better; no one knows so much that they can know no more. A professional can spot an amateur or a lack of practice or experience a mile away. His technicality, his spiritual ear is razor-sharp. He is familiar with the common mistakes, the counter-arguments; and insofar as this, he can clearly distinguish the difference between honest critics of the Faith and mere fools who criticize that which they know nothing.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["agnosticism","amateur","antitheistic","apologetics","application","argumentation","atheism","bible","counter-argument","criticism","deceit","development","dialect","discernment","fallacies","false-preaching","false-prophet","false-teaching","falsehood","figurative","foolish","immaturity","improvement","instrument","judgment","knowledge","language","learning","lies","lingo","logic","logical-fallacies","mastering","mastering-oneself","mastering-the-mind","maturity","metaphor","mind","music","philosophy","practice","preacher","professional","prophet","religion","scripture","simile","studying","teacher","theism","theology","truth","wisdom"],"id":45066,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Unsettling are the days in which everyone is an expert.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["amateur","arrogance","charlatan","coach","comfort","discomfort","distrust","ego","era","expert","false-knowledge","humility","ignorance","information","intelligence","knowledge","layman","life-coach","pride","professional","technology","time","trust","unsettling","wisdom"],"id":61194,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Usually the amateur is defined as an immature state of the artist: someone who cannot — or will not — achieve the mastery of a profession. But in the field of photographic practice, it is the amateur, on the contrary, who is the assumption of the professional: for it is he who stands closer to the (I)noeme(I) of Photography.","author":"Roland Barthes","tags":["amateur","photography"],"id":66238,"author_id":"Roland+Barthes"},{"text":"Learn like an amateur. Train like a champion. Fight like a warrior. Triumph like a conqueror.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["amateur","athlete","champion","coach","conquer","conqueror","fight","greatness","learn","life-lesson","life-lessons","life-lessons","life","life","life","life-and-sayings","life-inspirational","motivation","motivational","motivational","motivational-of-the-day","motivational","motivational-for-runners","motivational-for-women","sports","train","triumph","warrior"],"id":82837,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"Discipline is for professionals. Motivation is for amateurs.","author":"J.R. Rim","tags":["amateur","discipline","motivation","professional"],"id":96002,"author_id":"J.R.+Rim"},{"text":"Forget about being an expert or a professional, and wear your amateurism (your heart, your love) on your sleeve. Share what you love, and the people who love the same things will find you.","author":"Austin Kleon","tags":["amateur","austin-kleon","creativity","heart-on-your-sleeve","professional","show-your-work"],"id":186896,"author_id":"Austin+Kleon"},{"text":"Growing up doesn't mean that you are older than someone, it means that you are no longer an amateur.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["advancement","age","amateur","arise-and-shine","development","foward","grand","growing","growing-up","growth","learner","learning","mature","maturity","michael-bassey-johnson","old","rise","rising","success","young-and-old"],"id":226680,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Brush strokes write poetry harmonized through the cords of an artist's imagination.Color, contrast, simple compassion splattered across paper leaves tainted with the melody of the silent wind.Gasping, grasping, simply glancing at the souls of those who were not blessed with the visionary sight of inspirational artistry.","author":"Laura S. Al Bast","tags":["amateur","artistry","color","gasping","quote","sight","vision","writer"],"id":289181,"author_id":"Laura+S.+Al+Bast"},{"text":"I had zero idea of what I was doing.. I honestly had no idea where to start. All I knew was I had something I craved to say.. I wanted to create art that lived on longer than I do. Perseverance and teaching yourself, every day through stress and hard work proves shit really does progress without you realizing. One minute you're an amateur, knowing nothing, not even the basics. The next you can put pen to paper, write a song, and create art in such little time! It's crazy beautiful.","author":"scott mcgoldrick","tags":["amateur","artist","artistic","beauty","british","create","creative","gay-musician","gay-singer","hard-work-pays-off","lgbt","lgbtq","life","musician","pen","positive","progress","quote","rapper","scott-mcgoldrick","scottish","singer","songwriter","the-whisky-princess","writer","writing"],"id":289215,"author_id":"scott+mcgoldrick"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}