Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you. — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose. — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write. — Gabriel Fielding Copy Share Image
Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
After college, I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities… — Justin Chadwick Copy Share Image
Easter is an arts and crafts moment where your whole family and friends can get involved. — Alex Guarnaschelli Copy Share Image
When you watch a tea ceremony, every single movement, every single gesture is very calculated. It's very precise, and it's all protocol.… — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Photography is a craft. Anyone can learn a craft with normal intelligence and application. To take it beyond the craft is something… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the… — Cam Newton Copy Share Image
I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
I learned early on that it's heartbreaking to - there's the editor that comes in, and then they have to craft the… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
art happens. It happens when you have the craft and the vocation and are waiting for something else, something extra, or maybe… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
All these teachers and [screenwriting] books mean you see movies that have been worked over by more committees wielding more rules, that… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
The only person that can give up on you is yourself. People will always say no but you gotta keep trying. As… — Tamar Braxton Copy Share Image
Main thing is to publish. Blog, tweet, write, photograph, tweet, video, code, play around with data - or a combination of all… — Alan Rusbridger Copy Share Image
The practice of soulful travel is to discover the overlapping point between history and everyday life, the way to find the essence… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
And how deeply do I let business considerations affect [screenwriting] choices that might otherwise be more or less esthetic? . . .… — Edward Zwick Copy Share Image
Nowhere does one become more convinced of the strong hold which Freemasonry takes upon the minds and lives of those aging workers… — George Washington Copy Share Image
That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
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