Self-publishing a shitty book doesn't make you an author any more than singing in the shower makes you a rockstar or squeezing your pimple makes you a dermatologist.

— Oliver Markus

When it comes to living and loving, we're all amateurs.

— Marty Rubin

Some of the most corrupt people that you will meet in life are working in corporate government law enforcement. They make criminals look like amateurs.

— Steven Magee

You are trying to lure us into revealing information you're not entitled to? With chocolate and wine? Are you amateurs?

— Moira J. Moore

True artists unburden their envies and work toward encouraging amateurs.

— Aniruddha Sastikar

Owning a drone does not a pilot make.

— Alex Morritt

A man must love a thing very much if he practices it without any hope of fame or money, but even practice it without any hope of doing it well. Such a man must love the toils of the work more than any other man can love the rewards of it.

— G.K. Chesterton