Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research. — Brian Eno
Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work. — Charles E. Burchfield
I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them. — Ray Bradbury
No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with. — John Singer Sargent
I've worked in so many areas -- I'm sort of a dilettante. Basically, I'm not interested in doing research and I never have been. — David Blackwell
Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing. — Wernher Von Braun
Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials. — Helen Frankenthaler
Let's test the waters...
Love makes a splash, and you too thick to skinny-dip. — Pusha T
Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity. — Quentin Blake
Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly. — Socrates
Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays. — Friedrich von Schiller
When you don't know what you're doing, fake it. — Jill Shalvis
As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. — John Cassavetes
I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through. — Peter Straub
Humans are broad and multivariate. Try your hand at everything because you only have one life. — Naval Ravikant
Short Dabbling Quotes
Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethical judgments. — Andrew Ferguson
I love dabbling in different genres, and I like being good at different genres of cinema. — Priyanka Chopra
All along the backwater,
Through the rushes tall,
Ducks are a-dabbling,
Up tails all! — Kenneth Grahame
When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her. — Oscar Wilde
Give me a man who says, This one thing I do, and not, These fifty things, I dabble in. — Dwight L. Moody
I'm not the kind of guy who dabbles in a lot of things. — Jason Kilar
The poppies hung Dew-dabbled on their stalks. — John Keats
Life, never deciding to master anything in particular. — Tony Robbins
I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry. — Stephen Colbert
Dabbling Image Quotes
Dabbling With Quotes
If you want your life to have impact, focus it! Stop dabbling. Stop trying to do it all. Do less. Prune away even good activities and do only that which matters most. Never confuse activity with productivity. You can be busy without a purpose, but what's the point? — Rick Warren
You’d get very rich if you thought of yourself as having a card with only twenty punches in a lifetime, and every financial decision used up one punch. You’d resist the temptation to dabble. You’d make more good decisions and you’d make more big decisions. — Warren Buffett
I have dabbled with action, romance, dance, emotion and comedy. I think I've done well in all.
It's important to keep doing something different and reinvent oneself to avoid stagnation from
creeping in. — Sayings
This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash, careful not to get out of my depth and holding on to the lifeline which connects me with my things temporal. — C. S. Lewis
With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts. — Bruce Conner
It was Vikram Bhatt and 'Raaz' that got me interested in the medium of cinema. Before that, I was like any other youngster dabbling with various things - modelling, films - without a definite direction or focus. Now that I'm working with all of them, life has come full circle for me. — Bipasha Basu
When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process. — Lindsey Buckingham
As an actor, I am meant to dabble with different themes and genres. — Sanjay Dutt
Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you. — Bill Cosby
Now, you believe you are a material person dabbling with. But essentially, you are a spiritual being dabbling with the material world means you have started seeing life with utmost clarity. There are no more illusions about it. You see everything just the way it is. — Jaggi Vasudev
Fumbling Quotes
Anyone that has me on too high of a pedestal should see me fumbling around with git. — John Carmack
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief. — Mark Twain
Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak. — Margaret Weis
I don't trust Catholics," I said, "because they take advantage of you." "And Protestants?" he asked with a laugh. "I loathe the way they fumble around with their consciences." "And atheists?" He was still laughing. "They bore me because all they ever talk about is God. — Heinrich Böll
Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football. — John Heisman
History has to live with what was here,
clutching and close to fumbling all we had -
it is so dull and gruesome how we die,
unlike writing, life never finishes. — Robert Lowell
Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth. — William Least Heat-Moon
In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and don't listen properly to what other people are saying. I find that kind of speech fascinating but screenwriters never write dialogue like that because it doesn't look good on the page. — Christopher Guest
I got better the way everyone gets better: by trial and error and error and error, by fumbling around and making mistakes but not giving up and working incredibly hard at it every day and eventually, through a painful and laborious process of eliminating every wrong turn, finding my way. — Mishka
The five big mistakes in football are the fumble, the interception, the penalty, the badly called play, the blocked punt—and most of these originate with the quarterback. Find a mistake-proof quarterback and you have this game won. — Woody Hayes
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. — Tony Robbins
I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues. — Jack White
I think my sound differentiates me from everyone else. I'm able to dip and dabble in other genres, without feeling out of place. Im not confined to one sound. — Iceberg Slim
I'd sort of dabbled in Black Magic, not practicing it, but I was interested in it. All these horrible things kept happening to me - a lot of my aunts and uncles started dying and I was seeing all these bloody things visiting me during the night. — Geezer Butler
If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it. — Joshua Lederberg
I've dabbled in several different religions. — Jerry Hall
I’m not a true vegan. I dabble in sustainable fish and dawdle in the consumption of eggs. Steak doesn’t speak to me, and tempeh is so-so. I’ll savor a solitary apricot that’s been kissed by
my baby. — Anthony Kiedis
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence. — Edmund Clarence Stedman
I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical composer, dishevelling my personality by dabbling in rock 'n' roll. — John Cale
There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us? — C. S. Lewis
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence. — Captain J. G. Stedman
My English teacher, Dr. John Lindstrom, taught me an appreciation for the written word. Until his class, I'd dabbled in journalism and essay writing. But when he selected one of my essays as the best in the class, it gave me the confidence to see myself as a writer. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Dabbling in astrology is like carrying a lucky rabbit's foot as an omen of good luck which costs us very little and might have some beneficial effects. — Fred Singer
As soon as the Gospels were written, speech without experience began to dabble with the new facts proposed by the existence of the Church. People tried to think the new life without being touched by it first in some form of call, listening, passion or change of heart. — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it. — Fred Durst
I dabbled into witchcraft-I never joined a coven. But I did, I did. I dabbled into witchcraft. I hung around people who were doing these things. I'm not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do. — Christine O'Donnell
I think love is often a bit selfish, even before we had consumerism. That's not new. A consumer society gives you the illusion of having massive amounts of choice and saddles you with the freedom of being able to dabble in that choice. And at the same time, you are left with the tyranny of self-doubt and uncertainty about whether you made the right choice. — Esther Perel
A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous. — James Gibbons
The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear, and more than the light of day (or night) makes the subsolar, -lunar, and -stellar excrement. Art is the sun, moon, and stars of the mind, the whole mind. — Samuel Beckett
Mastery does not come from dabbling. We have to be prepared to pay the price. We need to have the sustained enthusiasm that motivates us to give our best. — Eknath Easwaran
My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it. — Candace Cameron Bure
Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in. — Dwight L. Moody
I love a good laugh as well, I think that's so important in life, which is probably why I've dabbled in comedy writing as well as horror. I think if you can make someone laugh or smile it's the most special thing in the world. — Paul Kane
Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term. — Ted Danson
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