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Quotes About Inexperience

I was 24 years old at the time. I had no real notion of what photography was about. I had no training. By accident, I put a negative in an enlarger, and you can do many things with that negative.
~ William Klein
During my first Olympics in 1980, at the age of 23, I was physically in great condition but mentally too inexperienced to cope comfortably in the pressure cooker of an Olympic year.
~ Sebastian Coe
My first audition was an open call and I had no picture and no resume - that's how clueless I was. I just thought I could show up.
~ Adepero Oduye
I shrunk my favourite jeans in my first week of university. I'd never done a wash before.
~ Josh Widdicombe
I don't know how to use a washing machine.
~ Ronan Keating
Nothing existed outside ourselves and school. For us, the world of politics, social revolution, the war in Vietnam never happened.
~ Rachel Klein
Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone, at nineteen, is dumb and beautiful in equal parts...
~ Raphael Kadushin
The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.
~ Raymond Duncan
He sought an adventure but didn't find one. He was inexperienced and besides he didn't have too much imagination.
~ Raymond Queneau
I don't know how to drive a car.
~ Javier Bardem
Obviously when you cast someone who hasn't acted before it can be a massive opportunity for them.
~ Andrea Arnold
When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.
~ Dolph Lundgren
They're free because they don't know any, better. So they can just run around and do whatever, and do whatever, and most of the time they don't get caught.
~ Mike Judge
The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn't know what to do. I was running more but didn't know what to do. I've no bones accepting the fact that I didn't know what was happening in the game.
~ Sunil Chhetri
I did not know much about cinema and acting.
~ Srinidhi Shetty
I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was supposed to be scared of anybody or anything - like getting fired or anything like that.
~ Sally Kellerman
I'm not quite sure how I would do babysitting.
~ Sabrina Carpenter
I was a normal eighteen-year-old: shuttered, self-conscious, untravelled and sneering; violently educated, socially crass, emotionally blurting.
~ Julian Barnes
It seems to me that when you are young, you think about sex most of the time, but you don't reflect on it much
~ Julian Barnes
There was no point in telling my father. He'd never let me quit after only one day. He couldn't help me and he'd make some terrible blunder if he tried. Parents are too innocent for the Boschian landscapes of middle school.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. . . It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.
~ Brandon Sanderson
The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
~ Agnes Repplier
Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.
~ Shimon Peres