Crafts Quotes - Page 6

Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.

I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea of saying 'I'm a photographer.'

Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.

A producer is someone who actually calls the shots. An executive producer is just a guy that eats more food at craft service.

I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft.

Part of what I do is a craft, but part of what I do is a science. And I guess the craft comes in knowing what science to use and what science not to use.

Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.

Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the better!

Without patience and the skill of a craftsman, even the greatest talent is wasted.

Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when you're not writing, READ.

What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.

Be a sponge. Spend as much time as possible with people who truly know their craft and be a great listener. That is how you learn.

Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing.

It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that our experience does not more closely resemble a macramé plant holder than it does a painting by Seurat. When it comes to art, life is the biggest copycat in the matter of the frame.

The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!

I don't spend that much time in the studio. When I first started doing music, I was in the studio every day just trying to build my portfolio. But now, even though I haven't totally mastered my craft, I'm at a pretty high level.

The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success, even in realms like chess. Instead, it's deliberate practice. Top performers spend more hours (many more hours) rigorously practicing their craft.

There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.

I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.

Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.

There are no rules, but you break them at your peril.

Fill the moment and find variety.

Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself; for that power is produced by him either through craft or force; and both of these are suspected by the one who has been raised to power.

Movie actors earn their living and learn their craft through listening and reacting.

If you've got time to waste, you might as well waste it listening to people.