Crafts Quotes · Page 11

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

— Richard Wilbur

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

— Janice Dickinson

A wise judge, by the craft of the law, was never seduced from its purpose.

— Robert Southey

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

— Jim Harrison

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

— Jared Leto

Where you find quality, you will find a craftsman, not a quality-control expert.

— Robert Breault

Whoever has a keen eye for profits, is blind in relation to his craft.

— Sophocles

You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.

— Twyla Tharp

But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want…

— Duncan Sheik

I introduced myself to Scorsese and I said, "If you need someone to do craft services, I'm there."

— William H. Macy

If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all…

— Ben Jonson

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

After college, I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities…

— Justin Chadwick

Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.

— Douglas Crockford

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

The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.

— Harry Shearer

Some films go so well, and some films are disappointing. It's the beauty of the craft. You get it right, and you…

— Joseph McGinty Nichol

The most crucial thing is to learn the craft: how to string sentences together, how to make your dialogue sound like real…

— Stephen Coonts

If there is one thing clear about the centuries dominated by the factory and the wheel, it is that although the machine…

— Henry Beston

I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music,…

— Chico Hamilton

Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit…

— Sue Grafton

The average movie set is the least political arena on Earth. Nobody bothers talking about politics because, one, we all love the…

— Tom Hanks

By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by…

— William Carlos Williams

My goal is to work. That's the goal of most actors or performers: to work and keep working, and do the best…

— Michael Ian Black

Main thing is to publish. Blog, tweet, write, photograph, tweet, video, code, play around with data - or a combination of all…

— Alan Rusbridger

The only person that can give up on you is yourself. People will always say no but you gotta keep trying. As…

— Tamar Braxton

There's a choice that we have to make as people, as individuals. If you want to be great at something, there's a…

— Kobe Bryant

On their own, each [character] is a victim of no importance. But when you bring them together, they become a dangerous weapon.…

— Claude Chabrol

I do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not walk out…

— Mike Leigh

I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're…

— Laura Z. Hobson

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is…

— Robert Bringhurst

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

The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

A poet's interest in craft never fades, of course.

— Mary Oliver

When you create something out of thin air you have to know the human heart.

— Thom Jones

Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.

— Tony Vincent

When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.

— Robert Stone

I'm like a blue-collar writer. I just sit down every day and I write.

— Philip Kan Gotanda

Let every man of whatsoever craft or occupation he be of... serve his brethren.

— William Tyndale

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

— Zubin Mehta