An apprentice near a temple will recite the scriptures untaught. — Japanese Proverbs
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. — Ernest Hemingway
A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef. — Fernand Point
The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already. — Henry Ford
The first thing necessary in teaching is a master; the second is a pupil capable of carrying on the tradition. — Egyptian Proverbs
Education is hanging around until you've caught on. — Robert Frost
It's by forging that one becomes a blacksmith. — French Proverbs
If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did. — Gordon Ramsay
To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber. — Oliver Goldsmith
What is a master but a master student? And if that's true, then there's a responsibility on you to keep getting better and to explore avenues of your profession. — Neil Peart
The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition. — William Wordsworth
Short Apprenticeship Quotes
A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom. — Amiri Baraka
Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that. — Chet Atkins
Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom. — Linton Kwesi Johnson
Being and having in our society teaches us how to take possession of things, when it should rather initiate us in the art of letting go. For there is neither freedom nor real life without an apprenticeship in letting go. — Gabriel Marcel
Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship. — Helene Cixous
I believe international work is a heavy task, but that it is nevertheless indispensable to go through an apprenticeship in it, at the cost of many efforts and also of a real spirit of sacrifice: however imperfect it may be, the work of Geneva has a grandeur that deserves our support. — Marie Curie
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade. — Simone Weil
For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade. — Albert Camus
For the production of man a different apprenticeship [from forests] was needed to sharpen the wits and quicken the higher manifestations of intellect - a more open veldt country where competition was keener between swiftness and stealth, and where adroitness of thinking played a preponderating role in the preservation of the species. — Raymond Dart
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
To live is nothing more than to come here to die, to be what we were before being born, but with apprenticeship, experience, knowledge of cause, and perhaps with will. — Juan Ramon Jimenez
No one as ever completed their apprenticeship. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total. — A. J. Liebling
Nothing substitutes a large apprenticeship, a heap of experiences which converts into the base of intuition. — Doug Scott
When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe. — Ariel Durant
Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty. — Henri Frederic Amiel
I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art. — Jane Rule
I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff. — Kazuo Ishiguro
I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship. — Aaron Eckhart
The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer. — Russell Banks
I feel strongly that we have to have an education system that starts with preschool and goes through college. That's why I want more technical education in high schools and in community colleges, real apprenticeships to prepare young people for the jobs of the future. — Hillary Clinton
We need to invest in job training programs, especially those that include child care, transit stipends and paid apprenticeships and internships. — Van Jones
I got into hairdressing and moved from Dorset to London, where I got an apprenticeship at Vidal Sassoon. This was around '83 or '84. I was working on South Molton Street, which was then the epicenter of all the shops. It was like a catwalk. So I did my apprenticeship there, but I wasn't successful. — Guido Palau
We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue. — Simone Weil
The day of our decease will be that of our coming of age; and with our last breath we shall become free of the universe. And in some region of infinity, and from among its splendors, this earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty. — William Mountford
Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world. — Thomas Carlyle
For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it must not go on for too long. An apprenticeship was a very different thing from a career. — Vita Sackville-West
I started playing guitar when I was 12 and probably from that age knew that I wanted to make music and make my own music. Playing with other bands like the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens was more like an apprenticeship for me than anything. — St. Vincent
There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians. — Dave Van Ronk
Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words. — Helen Dunmore
I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie. — Sam Mendes
If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship. — Irwin Shaw
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