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A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

~Chet Atkins

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Whatever is original in my writing comes from my musical apprenticeship. I look for rhythm in words. I imagine words as if they were musical chords. Often I'll write something, read it, and find it musically unsatisfactory. There is a musical imperative in my choice of words.

~Chico Buarque

Topics: Apprenticeship Choice Chords Find Imagine Imperative Look Musical Musically Often Original Read Rhythm Something Were Whatever Words Write Writing

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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.

~Christopher Reeve

Topics: Apprenticeship College Did Every First High High School High School And College Joined School Summer Then Union Worked

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I have been using Victorinox Cutlery since I was a young man, when my parents gave me a block set to properly equip me for my culinary apprenticeship.

~Daniel Humm

Topics: Apprenticeship Been Block Culinary Equip Gave Man Me Parents Properly Set Since Using Young Young Man

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New York's various undergrounds can make for a disciplined apprenticeship, and Gaga takes pride in her earliest fan base of art, fashion and music students.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Apprenticeship Art Base Disciplined Earliest Fan Fan Base Fashion Gaga Her Make Music New Pride Students Takes Various York

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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.

~Dave Van Ronk

Topics: Apprenticeship Even Felt Help Jazz Likable Musicians Obligation Personally System Teach Were You Young Younger

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I come from a family with a long tradition in shoemaking, and I still live in a region famous for its shoemakers. It is getting harder and harder to find skilled workers. There are no professional training institutes, so we have to train our own employees. And an apprenticeship takes three years.

~Diego Della Valle

Topics: Apprenticeship Come Employees Family Famous Find Getting Harder Institute Live Long Long Tradition Our Own Professional Region Skilled Still Takes Three Tradition Train Training Workers Years

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War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.

~Edward Everett Hale

Topics: Apprenticeship Freedom Hard War

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The idea that a poem was a made thing stayed with me, and I decided then that I wanted to be an artist, not just a diarist. So I put myself through a kind of apprenticeship in writing poetry, and I understood even then that my practice as a poet was deeply related to my reading.

~Edward Hirsch

Topics: Apprenticeship Artist Decided Deeply Even Idea Just Kind Made Me Myself Poem Poet Poetry Practice Put Reading Related Stayed Then Thing Through Understood Wanted Writing

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The venture business is a bit of an apprenticeship business, so the firm I worked for didn't let me make an investment until I was 30. That was probably a very smart thing.

~Fred Wilson

Topics: Apprenticeship Bit Business Firm Investment Make Me Smart Thing Until Venture Very Worked

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