Never forget that you are practicing a craft with certain principles. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
It's important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding. — Jennifer Ellison Copy Share Image
It's not hard to make a space that looks good by itself. The trick is to craft a room that's even more… — Kerry Joyce Copy Share Image
Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures. — Douglas Crockford Copy Share Image
You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready. — Lucinda Williams Copy Share Image
The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning. — Phyllis A. Whitney Copy Share Image
It's important to push yourself to get better at your craft - whatever that is. It's important to grow and evolve with… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I would love to direct but I feel like directing is a whole separate craft and so I tend to respect it… — Michael Ealy Copy Share Image
If film making is magic, there's a difference between close up magic and David Copperfield. If you're doing close up magic, which… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I learned my business in the theater and in television, particularly working with the actors. You can learn much more in the… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
To stay balanced, I exercise by walking and taking private Pilates lessons and salsa dance lessons. I also meditate and spend quality… — Andrea Navedo Copy Share Image
After all, a woman didn't leave much behind in the world to show she'd been there. Even the children she bore and… — Sandra Dallas Copy Share Image
Engineering is not a science. Science studies particular events to find general laws. Engineering design makes use of the laws to solve… — Ove Arup Copy Share Image
I always get a little bit pissed off when stand-up comedy is not recognised as being as good a craft as being… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
Most craft give a nod, however brief and unfriendly, towards beauty. Vogon ships did not nod towards beauty. They pulled on ski… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Songwriting is a craft. Writing good songs on a a consistent basis doesn not happen spontaneously. In fact, most of our best… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I do a lot of the stuff that I started out doing that I think any guitar player that's concerned about the… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
I have a great deal of respect for the craft, I don't know how much respect it has for me. But it's… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill,… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
A lot of art and visual crafts are based on appropriating things. — Lazaro Hernandez Copy Share Image
Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image