Definition of Amateur

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Definition of Amateur
	Amateur A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science as to music or painting; esp. one who cultivates any study or art, from taste or attachment, without pursuing it professionally. Related Definitions: Any, Art, As, Attached, Attachment, From, It, Music, One, Or, Painting, Particular, Person, Professionally, Pursuing, Pursuit, Science, Study, Taste, To, Who, Without

Amateur Quotations

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
Will Rogers

Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
Richard Bach

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.
Woodrow Wilson

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.
Alan Greenspan

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.
Cat Stevens

We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that.
Jennifer Saunders

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
Alvin Toffler

By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.
Stephen Sondheim

If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.
Red Adair

Amateur Translations

amateur in Afrikaans is amateur
amateur in Dutch is knutseaar, amateur, dilettant
amateur in French is amateur
amateur in German is Amateur {m}, Amateur {m}, Nichtprofi {m}
amateur in Italian is dilettante, amante
amateur in Portuguese is amador
amateur in Spanish is amante, aficionado

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