Crafts Quotes - Page 7

In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies.

Having a background in doing printmaking and letterpress, I think that I became very interested in images that were flat and graphic. And my painting still today is very flat...American craft is like that too - the painting is very flat. And also the painting that you see on the storefronts, handmade signs, tend to be very flat. That's probably my biggest influence.

That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera.

Are all your stars shining?

God's relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.

There is no better way to earn money than to do the things that you love to do. Money can flow into your experience through endless avenues. It is not the choice of the craft that limits the money that flows - but only your attitude toward money.

Leadership does take work. And it should. If you aspire to be a leader, you ought to treat leadership as a craft, you ought to become a student of it, and you ought to work at it. And if you're not willing to work at it, well, you get what you give.

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.

[Saniyya Sidney] was very serious about her work and her craft, and she wanted to be good, and she wanted to work on it. So I said, "Ok." It was as simple as that. She was just right. She just has it.

The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.

Just make sure you're staying true to yourself, and do what you think is good in that craft or field [of yours] and then let everything else fall where it falls.

I like to make things, but I looked at old craft books on weaving or mosaics or whatever, I'm like, 'I don't really know anything about that stuff.'

To write simply is as difficult as to be good.

Life stand still here.

Women have tongues of craft, and hearts of guile, They will, they will not; fools that on them trust; For in their speech is death, hell in their smile. [It., Femmina e cosa garrula e fallace: Vuole e disvuole, e folle uom chi sen fida, Si tra se volge.]

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.

Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing.

Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.

It occurs to me that at the beginning one works passionately to learn photography. This takes years, and the craft is usually formed during this period. Then as time passes one finds oneself more in the role of serving the medium... Then, as in the example of several masters that I have been privileged to know personally, it appears that by having devoted oneself totally to the medium, one becomes photography.

Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.

As you craft a plan to expand to adjacent markets, don't disrupt: Avoid competition as much as possible.

Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience.

I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft.

Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services where all the food for the cast and crew was and I would eat.