Quotes About Dabbling

I'm interested in everthing but passionate about nothing.

We were both dabbling with music but no, I persuaded George, railroaded him really into forming a band. I think we both had the belief that we would make it. That was the central pillar around everything else.

Although I'm largely doing other things in life, it's very nice occasionally to put my toe back in the waters of show business.

if your dog was dabbling in the occult while you had her it's best you tell us now. We're experts.

I'm just this committed dilettante. I think what I've found is that I've tried to do a lot of different things in my life and discovered I'm not as good at them as I'd want to be.

Above all else I am a dilettante in life.

It was too much for the mullah. "It is forbidden to alter the creations of Allah!" he erupted. "If sculpture is enjoined by the Prophet, how much greater an abomination is it to sculpt living flesh? Six-legged camels! Horses with toes! Turbofalcons and three-headed hunting dogs! The production of novelties for the idle rich! And now the idolaters have not shrunk from dabbling in man himself!

I walked over to the holding pen to see if maybe I had a magic touch with camels. This is the persistent dream of dilettantes: that we will, at some point, uncover a superpower that will make sense of lives filled with false starts, failures and endless dabbling.

Above all else I am a dilettante in life.

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.

I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.

I was interested in everything and committed to nothing.

I was drawing before I did music, but me, I'm a dilettante. I jump into everything until I find one thing that I enjoy more than others. Rap was something that was always there because my brother used to rap - piano and musical instruments is something I learnt on the way.

I have never studied; I have had no training. I do a little of everything, and nothing well. I am only an amateur. (Chapter 5)

When I dabble in watching the news and reading about current events, I tend to get a future negative view, and that's something I've dealt with through music. It's quite possible I'm slightly paranoid. But I'd say making music is an expression of feelings of helplessness and lack of control that I think a lot of people can relate to.

their contemporaries in the West, Charlemagne and his lords, were dabbling in the art of writing their names.

I always have been very musically influenced because of my dad. He had a very big record collection, so I dabbled in different genres.

Before acting offers came by, I dabbled in theatre under the aegis of the late thespian Dinesh Thakur. He was instrumental in honing my acting skills.

I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.

When it comes to helping another human being, you can treat the symptoms or you can treat the cause. Most people dabble in symptom management, and that is why most people don't seem to be getting better.