Apprentice Quotes

• Only fools, pure theorists, or apprentices fail to take public opinion into account.

  Jacques Necker

  Public Opinion, Fool, Failing

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• Don't tell me the sky's the limit.

  Paul Brandt

  Inspirational, Moon, Sky

  Song: There's A World Out There, Album: That's the Truth, 1999

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• I'm like a shark, right at the top of the food chain. I take what I want, when I want. I truly am the reflection of perfection.

  Ricky Martin

  Reflection, Sharks, Perfection

  "The Apprentice: Grace Dent's TV OD" by Grace Dent, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2012.

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• Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

  George Lucas

  Change, War, Growth

  The Empire Strikes Back (motion picture) (1980).

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• May the Force be with you.

  George Lucas

  Movie, Film History, Psychics

  Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

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• Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.

  George Lucas

  Dark, Destiny, Forever

  George Lucas (2015). “ArtFolds: Yoda: Yoda and the Force”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.

  Aaron Allston

  Sad, Two, People

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• Everything you need you already have.

  Wayne Oates

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Needs

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• A disciple is a learner, a student, an apprentice – a practitioner… Disciples of Jesus are people who do not just profess certain views as their own but apply their growing understanding of life in the Kingdom of the Heavens to every aspect of their life on earth.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Views, People

  Dallas Willard (2009). “The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus’s Essential Teachings on Discipleship”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Humility, Crafts

  "New York Journal-American" Newspaper, July 11, 1961.

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• It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Artist, Heaven, Realizing

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• Firepaw held the menacing amber gaze for few moments. Warrior and apprentice, for a heartbeat their eyes were locked as enemies.

  Erin Hunter

  Eye, Warrior, Enemy

  Erin Hunter (2015). “Warriors 6-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Enter the Clans: Books 1-6 Plus Enter the Clans”, p.105, HarperCollins

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• Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.

  Josef Albers

  Years, Secret, Beginners

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• Leo drummed his fingers. “Great. I should have installed a smoke screen that makes the ship smell like a giant chicken nugget. Remind me to invent that, next time.” Hazel frowned. “What is a chicken nugget?” “Oh, man…” Leo shook his head in amazement. “That's right. You’ve missed the last, like, seventy years. Well, my apprentice, a chicken nugget—” “Doesn’t matter,” Annabeth interrupted.

  Rick Riordan

  Men, Should Have, Years

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• But now that she was my apprentice, every such thought caused a guilty twitch in my neck, as if someone had dropped a sleek, stinky ferret there. Guilt ferrets are bastards.

  Kevin Hearne

  Guilt, Ferrets, Necks

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.1055, Del Rey

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• My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin, like your uncle Gustav, she said. Would I pay heed? No. Apprentice to the Necromancer―

  Raymond E. Feist

  Mother, Uncles, Assassins

  Raymond E. Feist (1990). “Prince of the Blood”, Spectra

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• Crowley shook his head. "I sometimes wonder if it was a good idea having Halt train apprentices. He seems to teach them no respect for authority." "Oh, he teaches us to respect authority," Gilan said innocently. "He just teaches us to ignore it when necessary.

  John Flanagan

  Ideas, Sometimes, Wonder

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• Bear with me on this, Evanlyn. I know you're anxious about Horace." WIll was a little puzzled by Halt's words. "No more anxious than the rest of us, surely," he said. Halt turned away and raised his eyebrows as his gaze met Selethen's. Sometimes, he thought, his former apprentice could be remarkably slow on the uptake. He saw the Arridi's slow nod of understanding. ~Halt & Will about Evanlyn and Horace

  John Flanagan

  Eyebrows, Understanding, Littles

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• Ah. Medieval-style ransom.” Toot looked confused. “He did run some, but I stopped him, my lord. Like, just now. In front of you. Right over there.” There were several conspicuous sounds behind me, the loudest from my apprentice, and I turned to eye everyone else. They were all either covering smiles or holding them back— poorly. “Hey, peanut gallery,” I said. “This isn’t as easy as I’m making it look.” “You’re doing fine,” Karrin said, her eyes twinkling. I sighed. “Come on, Toot,” I said, and walked over to Hook.

  Jim Butcher

  Running, Confused, Eye

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• There is no easy way to train an apprentice. My two tools are example and nagging.

  Daniel Handler

  Two, Example, Tools

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• As Seth's apprentice, I've learned wisdom of which you've never dreamed.

  Janet Morris

  Jealousy, Betrayal, I've Learned

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• Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Practice, Perfect

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.31, CCEL

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• As her newest apprentice, it had been my job to go to the market every morning. I had gotten all the jobs no one else wanted, but I had treated each task as if it had been essential to do well -- a trick I had learned from my father.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Morning, Jobs, Father

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• "Nationwide" featured an amazing collection of apprentice impersonators. From all over Britain, schoolchildren materialised via local studios to give us their imitations of the mighty. There were at least three uncannily accurate Margaret Thatchers, their eyelids fatigued with condescension and their voices swooping and whining like dive-bombers.

  Clive James

  Voice, America, Giving

  Clive James (2015). “The Crystal Bucket”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

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• Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else.

  Wayne Dyer

  Self Improvement, Needs, Way

  "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Buddhism" by Gary Gach, (p. 285), 2002.

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