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Quotes About Amateurism

Schopnost evokovat Hitlera, OsvÄ›tim nebo Mnichov má své pÃ…â"¢ednosti: alespo? se tak sou?asnost dovolává minulosti, místo aby ji zcela ignorovala. Dnes to ?iníme amatérsky a stále více zp?sobem, kterým sami sobÄ› Å¡kodíme, ale aspo? to dÄ›láme. Nemáme se tÄ›chto aktivit vzdát, nýbrž provádÄ›t je s vyšší mírou historické informovanosti a vnímavosti.
~ Tony Judt
Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
~ Carl Lewis
Stop the nonsense about 'student-athlete.'
~ Jeff Van Gundy
I'm interested in harnessing the good will and distributed power of people, including novices.
~ Jonathan Zittrain
Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow the ground of judgment. But amateur standards, the standards of love, are always straining upward toward the humble and the best. They enlarge the ground of judgment. The context of love is the world.
~ Wendell Berry
This is the world of "peer production," the extraordinary Internet-enabled phenomenon of mass volunteerism and amateurism. We are at the dawn of an age where most producers in any domain are unpaid, and the main difference between them and their professional counterparts is simply the (shrinking) gap in the resources available to them to extend the ambition of their work. When the tools of production are available to everyone, everyone becomes a producer.
~ Chris Anderson
Anyone who did not master conspiratorial techniques was considered a kustar' – an amateur; amateurism was anathema to Ulyanov and he was obsessive in eradicating
~ Helen Rappaport
This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.
~ Bill Bruford
One is this: without the means to pay experts, it's necessary to evolve a complex ecosystem of useful amateurs.
~ Holly Black
I do support college athletes and the opportunity for them to be paid a stipend.
~ Jalen Rose
Long before social media made things like bib replication easier, banditing at major races was viewed as a brave act. Rebellious runners like John Tarrant gatecrashed races as a political statement, in protest of rules about amateurism that limited how much money athletes could earn in appearance fees and endorsements.
~ Mary Pilon
In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.
~ Francois Truffaut
Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.
~ Marshall McLuhan
Als God werkelijk bestond, had hij weleens wat meer aanwijzingen omtrent zijn opvattingen mogen geven, God was een bijzonder slechte communicator, zo'n mate van amateurisme zou in een professionele omgeving nooit zijn geaccepteerd.
~ Michel Houellebecq
There was a time when it was admirable to be an amateur poet or a dilettante scientist, because it meant that the quality of life could be improved by engaging in such activities. But increasingly the emphasis has been to value behavior over subjective states; what is admired is success, achievement, the quality of performance rather than the quality of experience.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi