Novices Quotes

• Whereas a novice makes moves until he gets checkmated (proof), a Grand Master realizes 20 moves in advance that it’s futile to continue playing (conceptualizing).

  Bill Gaede

  Moving, Realizing, Proof

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• Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

  Jean Toomer

  Masters

  Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

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• In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Struggle, Ambition, Literature

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• When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.

  Richard E. Pattis

  Quality, Experts, Debugging

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• When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.

  Andrea Mitchell

  War, Fire, Rights

  Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.67, Penguin

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• In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

  Adelbert von Chamisso

  Character, Eye, Blue

  Adelbert von Chamisso (1845). “The Shadowless Man; Or, The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl”

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• We were all novices. We really were. We didn't know a goddamn thing about doing a show.

  Jerome Robbins

  Shows, Knows

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• As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Learning, Thinking, Long

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• The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.

  Bill Budge

  Sitting, Use, Keyboards

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• For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Running, Talking

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• He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam.

  James Stockdale

  Leadership, Air, Vietnam

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• What has become clear is that Britain cannot trust the Conservatives to run the economy. Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.

  Gordon Brown

  Running, Favour, Economy

  "Labour Conference: Gordon Brown's Speech in Full". www.telegraph.co.uk. September 23, 2008.

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• It is always the novice who exaggerates.

  C. S. Lewis

  Screwtape Letters

  C. S. LEWIS (1961). “The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toast”

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• Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Life, Men, Stage

  Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort (1902). “The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort”

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• What you know will keep you from what you need to know if you don't remain a novice.

  Bill Johnson

  Needs, Knows, Ifs

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• The experienced physician, mechanic, or physiologist looking at a wound, an engine, a microscopic preparation, "sees" things the novice does not see. If both, experts and laymen, were asked to make exact copies of what they see, their drawings would be quite different.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Drawing, Preparation, Physicians

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Visual Thinking”, p.302, Univ of California Press

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• The novice-friendly software is more like a misbehaving dog: it shits on the floor, it destroys things, and stinks - the novice-friendly software embodies the opposite of what computer people have dreamed of for decades: artificial stupidity. It's more human.

  Erik Naggum

  Dog, Opposites, People

  "Read the fine manual, please". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. November 14, 1997.

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• Sometimes, the only way to learn something really well is to revert to the state of mind of a novice and reawaken to the raw observations that you have accumulated instead of relying on the conclusions you have reached from the exogenous premises absorbed through teaching and bookish learning.

  Erik Naggum

  Teaching, Mind, Way

  Re: Guide to Lisp, v1.20 (Usenet article), groups.google.com. August 28, 2002.

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• You can always tell a novice rider; they aren't comfortable in the saddle and have to hang on.

  Harry Carey, Jr.

  Saddles, Riders, Comfortable

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• Only losers and amateurs blame the cards. After all, cards don't care; they don't take sides, and they have no memory. They are blind justice holding her scales, and in the long run they'll tip evenly for the novice and the skilled alike.

  Lou Krieger

  Running, Memories, Long

  Lou Krieger (1999). “More Hold'em Excellence: A Winner for Life”, p.3, ConJelCo LLC

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• One must first seek to love plants and nature, and then to cultivate that happy peace of mind which is satisfied with little. He will be happier if he has no rigid and arbitrary ideals, for gardens are coquettish, particularly with the novice.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Garden, Simplicity, Mind

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• They don't make poles long enough for me want to touch Microsoft products, and I don't want any mass-marketed game-playing device or Windows appliance near my desk or on my network. This is my workbench, dammit, it's not a pretty box to impress people with graphics and sounds. When I work at this system up to 12 hours a day, I'm profoundly uninterested in what user interface a novice user would prefer.

  Erik Naggum

  Games, Long, People

  Re: Why lisp failed in the marketplace (Usenet article), groups.google.com. February 16, 1997.

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• A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.

  Honore de Balzac

  Girl, Women, Thinking

  Honore de Balzac (1897). “A Woman of Thirty”, p.172, Library of Alexandria

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• The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed more in defeating a superior army than in subduing an inferior one. Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.

  Jerry Bridges

  Army, Winning, Player

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.123, NavPress

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• Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.

  Quentin Crisp

  Drug, Exhibitionism, Adolescence

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, 1968.

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