The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators. — Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin Copy Share Image
We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability. — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of… — Christian Dior Copy Share Image
Self-projection is, more often than not, the move of the minor craftsman, of the tactics of the hour whose inherent weakness is,… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well. — Dale Chihuly Copy Share Image
Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
“there’s something liberating about the craftsman mindset: It asks you to leave behind self-centered concerns about whether your job is “just right,”… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
I'm a good craftsman and I can have this particular intention: let's say, I want a photograph that's going to push a… — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
One of the things he liked about playwriting as to any other kind of writing is that a playwright is a w-r-i-g-h-t,… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I… — Joy Davidman Copy Share Image
Of all the things I've done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It's the most exciting and the… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
“Everything else is Craftsman. Turn-of-the-century Craftsman, beautifully restored Craftsman, reinterpretation of Craftsman, needs-some-love Craftsman, modern take on Craftsman. It’s like a hypnotist… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“A man was suffering a persistent problem with his house. The floor squeaked. No matter what he tried, nothing worked. Finally, he… — Christy Wright Copy Share Image
There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate… — George Nakashima Copy Share Image
Christians should ultimately do everything that we do with excellence. There's a story about repairs in the Sistine Chapel ... when some… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
“I came to define God by His handiwork: a craftsman who builds the hope of eternity into our genes, a master electrician… — Barbara Bradley Hagerty Copy Share Image
If the men of the Middle Ages... lived in filth and discomfort, it was not for any lack of ability to change… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
As for 'story' I never yet did enjoy a novel or play in which someone didn't tell me afterward that there was… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake. — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
“Irrespective of what type of work you do, the craftsman mindset is crucial for building a career you love. Before” — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“regardless of how you feel about your job right now, adopting the craftsman mindset will be the foundation on which you’ll build… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a… — Louis Nizer Copy Share Image
“I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craftsman… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The fact is that the creative person is a disciplined craftsman whose 'gift' is a reaching out toward his most profound personal… — Joseph C Zinker Copy Share Image
For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one. — William McElcheran Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
There's been this steady metamorphosis from just surviving to being a craftsman and, ultimately, the hope is to be an artist in… — R.A. Dickey Copy Share Image
My trade is a lonely one. I'm a craftsman, if you like. It so happens that these days singers are better paid… — Jacques Brel Copy Share Image
But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share Image
God's relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
“What if, as an act of worship, creating something meant healing and restoration took place instead of pain and frustration?” — Michelle Dennis Evans Copy Share Image
There's an old saying,'It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools.' It's usually the player who misses those three-footers, not the putter. — Kathy Whitworth Copy Share Image
When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
