Apprenticeship Quotes Page 2

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.

I feel like the American years were my apprenticeship for doing a Bond movie.

If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.

I have gone through a long apprenticeship.

I have gone through enough of being a nobody. I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody from the studio gateman to the highest executive will know it.

Most people won't realise that writing is a craft.

You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else.

Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties.

That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one.

We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.

I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.

Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the outsiders, keep down the competition, preserve the image of a privileged or priestly class. The man who makes things clear is a scab. He is criticized less for his clarity than for his treachery.

Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.

Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was an apprenticeship to books and not to living masters of the craft.

Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That takes a while.

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.

I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window to a car wreck he passed on the highway. I learned not to censor myself: that was one of things I learned in my apprenticeship, my creative-writing apprenticeship with my dad.

In each thing there is an insinuation of death.

Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships.

As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned a lot about my trade.

Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.

Somewhere along the line you've got to do your apprenticeship.

But I'd want half a chance of being successful at it.

If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.

For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow; eschewing as far as possible that hasty extemporaneous manner of writing which is the privilege of more advanced students.

Every day should be Labor Day. We have to fight for the basic proposition that apprenticeship is a wonderful ticket to the middle class. When we're fighting for things like paid leave, America is the only industrialized nation on the planet that doesn't have some form of paid leave - these are not bold ideas elsewhere in the world.

I want to invest in community colleges, training programs, and high-quality apprenticeships that help people gain the skills they need for the jobs of the future.

I didn't read the script [ Rules Don't Apply ] for a couple years.

It basically amounted to this kind of apprenticeship with Warren [Beatty]: conversations and learning about his whole background in the film industry and his life.

I walk with Federico Garcia Lorca around the Upper West Side in Manhattan because that was a neighborhood he lived in and I imagine walking around Paris with Cesar Vallejo, a great Peruvian poet who lived in Paris. And I kind of create the walk as a kind of drama of my apprenticeship.

The time between Bachelor's degree and a PhD, the median time is over 11 years.

So then you're still only on a tenure ladder, you're not tenured. So it generally takes 6 to 8 years after that to get tenure. So that's a very long period of what's essentially apprenticeship, of insecurity.

I learned through apprenticeship. I was an assistant to a defensive coach, and I'm still learning.

I was like the roadie, I was carrying gear, checking things in at airports, making sure they had flowers backstage and interfacing with promoters who were sometimes really nice and sometimes a little seedy. It was a great apprenticeship, to be in the music industry.

Nobody should be allowed to create general advertising until he has served his apprenticeship in direct-response

God is grooming us for leadership. He's watching to see how we demonstrate our faithfulness. He does that through his apprenticeship program, one that prepares us for Heaven. Christ is not simply preparing a place for us; he is preparing us for that place.