Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding. — Jennifer Ellison Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
Easter is an arts and crafts moment where your whole family and friends can get involved. — Alex Guarnaschelli Copy Share Image
I don't like the discussions about whether photography is an art. Even though I think that if it would be just a… — Josef Sudek Copy Share Image
The dreams you craft at the level of your soul are very different from goals, which are tangible, measurable and set the… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life,… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating. There… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
A small craft in the ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. The skipper's brain is the vessel's brain and he… — Tristan Jones Copy Share Image
Imagine the first Burmese "giraffe woman"; she was probably a local icon in her village in the way she put the rings… — Noma Bar Copy Share Image
I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
Writing and creating, those things come to me on their own. I feel like... you sort of summon them and it's like… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling… — Tabatha Coffey 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
I think most micro-brewers/craft-brewers are similar in that they enjoy making something themselves and at the end of the day they can… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a record with a twist. I wanted to prove that you could make a record that concentrated on… — Stella Soleil Copy Share Image
Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who do not write for money.… — Anonymous 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
Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
A lot of art and visual crafts are based on appropriating things. — Lazaro Hernandez Copy Share Image
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