Damon Albarn

I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.

English Musician

David Linley

For the novice furniture collector, buying antiques can seem a rather daunting prospect. Nobody wants to feel that they may not make a wise choice and that ultimately they could be throwing their money away. The main thing is that you should always buy something first and foremost because you like it.

British Royalty

Edward Albee

Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end; and I am at just the very beginning of what I hope will be a long and satisfying life in the theater. But, whatever happens, I am grateful to have had my novice work received so well, and so quickly.

American Dramatist

Chris Eubank Jr.

It's definitely hard to live up to expectation. Especially early in my career, everyone was expecting so much from me, everyone was comparing me to my father. They didn't understand that they're comparing me to a world champion, which is very unfair as a novice.

British Athlete

Robert Kiyosaki

Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That's because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from.

American Author

Ruth Rendell

In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers tell the readers everything about their characters in the first paragraphs, disclose their motives, reveal their recent activities and their future intentions.

British Writer

Richard P. Feynman

Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and it appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone - both to the novice and to the experienced physicist.

American Physicist

Adelbert von Chamisso

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

German Poet

Nicolas Chamfort

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

French Writer

James Earl Jones

American Actor

Use 'novice' to emphasize a lack of experience, especially when someone is learning something new.

Experience Level

'Novice' is neutral; it doesn't imply failure, just inexperience or being at the start of a journey.

Not Negative

A 'novice' is often at the beginning of a period of learning or development in a certain field.

Starting Point

In a religious context, a 'novice' is someone formally admitted to a community but not fully ordained.

Religious Training

Becoming a 'novice' often represents a trial period before full commitment to a religious life.

Path to Commitment

'Novice' is used across various religions; its meaning slightly differs based on the tradition.

Different Traditions

 great so you should have a lot of laws protecting your falcons so fred has allowed like a couple of different birds there's lots of falcons and hawks and the eagles and everything in the states but he's really only allowed a couple of them because he's a he's a novice yeah you have to go through stages you have to exams you have to you know what i mean so fred is basically allowed red-tailed hawk where

Legends of Kingfishers,...

 some origami we gave them instructions to how to create origami and we gave them a sheet of paper and these were all novices and they built something that was really quite ugly nothing like a frog or a crane but then we told them we said look this origami really belongs to us you worked for us but I'll tell you what we'll sell it to

What makes us feel good...

 We are meaning-making machines. It's what we do. We try to make meaning out of everything that happens to us. Organization helps, so we need to structure what we're doing in ways that make sense. If we are providing knowledge and experience, we need to structure that. And the last one is support. We all started as novices.

Peter Doolittle: How...

 and hopefully you make it look good. Now we've got technology. This thing is called an air ram. It's a frightening piece of equipment for the novice stunt performer, because it will break your legs very, very quickly if you land on it wrong. Having said that, it works with compressed nitrogen.

Steve Truglia: A leap...

 and improve their quality of life. We did everything by the book, as we had learned in business school. We got investors, we spent a lot of time building the business and training the women. But soon we realized we were novices.

Don't fail fast -- fail...

 and it also helps us come at problems from diverse perspectives. These puzzles come in various puzzle hunts, which come in various shapes and sizes. There's one-hour ones designed for novices, 24-hour road rallies,

The joyful, perplexing...

 novice and nefesh which can mean either breath or soul or spirit or all three at the same time intertwined breath and soul and spirit and there it is there's what's been missing spirit that sense of

The real meaning of soul...

 novices wash and wait it is their traditional belief that to become men they must expel the contaminating influences of women when our mothers gave birth to us some of their blood