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“I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester”

Play School Jobs Left Couple Involved Fruit Odd Manchester Apprentice Bakers School Plays Odd Jobs

Author:John Thaw

“At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.”

Mind Looks Running Forget Machines Intelligent Mad Running Away Drag Abyss Magnitude Apprentice Precipice Havoc Intelligent Machines

Author:Richard Dooling

“Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick.”

Men Science Learning Medicine University Bees Oxford Apprentice

Book:Dr. Thomas Sydenham, 1624-1689: His Life and Original Writings

Source: Dr. Thomas Sydenham, 1624-1689: His Life and Original Writings

“If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.”

Ifs World Doe Quality Masters Owners Apprentice Yes And No

Author:Robert Fripp

“Got Bin Laden AND interrupted Celebrity Apprentice? Win for Obama all around.”

Winning Bin Laden Interrupted Apprentice

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Almost all of the stories in The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan are told in the first person, yet, depending on the angle and distance of the narrator, they exert different effects. The best are those in which the speaker never poses as an objective outsider. (...) Other stories are damaged by the urge to distance the narrator.”

Firsts Persons Different Stories Fans Effects Football Distance Objectives Urges Speakers Outsiders Angle First Person Apprentice Narrators Football Fan

Author:Yiyun Li

“I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see creation as something that is happening. Hundreds of millions of stars are still being born every day. Creation is an ongoing process. The Artist has not yet cleaned out the brushes. The paint is still wet. Human beings are the small clumps of clay and breath, and we have been handed brushes of our own, like young artist apprentices. The brushes aren't ours, nor the paint or canvas, but here they are in our hands, on loan. What shall we make?”

“The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them.”

Doe War Gone Superiors Crafts Contribution Apprentice

Author:Steven Pressfield

“They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter.”

Hours Perfect Morning Eight Harm Reporters Midnight Apprentice

Book:Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels

Source: Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels

“When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other.”

Writing Firsts Use Wanted Novel Nurture About Friendship Apprentice Quilters

Author:Jennifer Chiaverini

“To ensure that no one gained an advantage over anyone else, commercial law prohibited innovation in tools or techniques, underselling below a fixed price, working late by artificial light, employing extra apprentices or wife and under-age children, and advertising of wares or praising them to the detriment of others.”

Children Light Law Wife Century Late Advantage Tools Innovation Praise Technique Advertising Fixed Extras Artificial Apprentice Employing Artificial Light Working Late

Author:Barbara Tuchman

“When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade entering his body." Each time that we have some pain to go through, we can say to ourselves quite truly that it is the universe, the order and beauty of the world, and the obedience of God that are entering our body.”

World Body Pain Order Universe Hurt Expression Fine Trade Tired Complaining Obedience Entering Peasants Apprentice Workmen Beauty Of The World

Author:Simone Weil

“The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.”

Careers Paid Profession Income Maximum Prostitution Apprentice

Book:In Darkest England and the Way Out

Source: In Darkest England and the Way Out

“I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.”

Knows Way Needs Writing Stills Millions Stage Apprentice

Author:Tana French