Crafts Quotes

Strategy is the craft of the warrior.

The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.

I don't master my craft or my style enough to have any philosophy or dogma to which I feel I belong.

For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story.

The high note is not the only thing.

The Crafts which require the most Time intraining or most Ingenuityand Industry must necessarily be the best paid.

I've always felt that if I worked hard enough and continued to refine my craft, while staying curious about our times and our world, I just might have something to contribute.

Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone.

Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.

In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.

We of the craft are all crazy.

Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting. Most people do it all day long.

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.

I'm not pretending to be somebody who's got really limited craft skills. I just am a person who's got really limited craft skills.

[I am enthusiastic about journalism because] it's a craft that can ... galvanize an often complacent citizenry, and make a difference.

We all can be masters at our craft, but you have to make sacrifices that come along with making that decision.

Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.

Don't be too precious about your craft... there's only 26 letters and 12 notes, and Shakespeare and Beethoven said it all better than any of us ever will

Grips and electricians have done more to help me shoot good movies than any other craft.

To make your unknown known - that's the important thing.

The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda.

The humblest craft that floats makes its appeal to a seaman by the faithfulness of her life.

Some of us might not understand why LeBron James is the way he is, but fortunately he found his great craft in life.

I’m pretty masochistic. I kill myself for my craft – Literally

People know that I always do my hair and makeup, but I also love doing crafts. I love getting a blank canvas and painting something.

Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.

Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft.

Bodybuilding is my craft and because it is my craft it dictates how I live. Because it dictates how I live it's not just what I do in the gym but it's also an accepted lifestyle.

It's not recognized by enough people as a worthy craft.

Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.

Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.

I live cinema and passionately love music, and my efforts in both these crafts are unfolding.

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

Ever since I was little, I’ve loved making hand-made cards and presents and arts & crafts for people.

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.

You must render: never report.

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.

Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing.

There's hardly anywhere in literature where you don't find a triangle.

The more wisdom we know the more we may earn. Those who seek to learn more of their craft shall be richly rewarded.

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

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.

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