Crafts Quotes · Page 22

Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

— Paul Hawken

Acting is a lifelong love affair, and I am passionate and respect my craft to the utmost degree, which gives me the…

— Sebastian Roche

There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

— Rudyard Kipling

Craft is not a category; it's a means. The folks running the museum [Museum of Arts and Design]are sharp, and they know…

— Jerry Saltz

When I'm at craft services, I make the best-tasting,10-layer meat and cheese sandwich with no bread.

— Kellan Lutz

I've got to see my movie to see how I'm acting, see what little things I can learn about my craft.

— LL Cool J

Everyone would talk about their diets and working out and what it made me do was go to craft services where all…

— Kristin Davis

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

— Howard Gordon

There is no better way to earn money than to do the things that you love to do. Money can flow into…

— Esther Hicks

We actors have it pretty easy and pretty hard. Easy 'cause we have a meal provided to us every 6 hours every…

— T. J. Thyne

I know a lot of people who are very good at their craft who have learned - people behind the camera -…

— Jeffrey Jones

The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're…

— Anthony Bourdain

True artists pursue greatness in craft in order to give the Lord the best fruit of the talent He has given them,…

— Charlie Peacock

If even one of these unidentified UFOs turns out to be an alien craft, the impact on all aspects of our nation's…

— Don Berliner

Sure there's a difference with puppet-craft - who cares? I don't care about the puppet-craft, I care about what works. Who cares…

— Frank Oz

To practice - write each and every day if possible - then try to attend professional writer's conferences where you can learn…

— James Dashner

Everybody allows that to know any other science you must have first studied it, and that you can only claim to express…

— Anonymous

I'm sensitive about the criticism [for not producing new playwrights], yes. But I'm hip to it as well. I read 500 new…

— Gregory A. Boyd

Beware of advice. Consider your sources carefully. Look them up. See if you respect what they've made. Get educated. Be informed about…

— Karen Walton

With ferocity and extraordinary craft, Lizzie Harris has made a book of poems that resonates far beyond the personal stories it tells.…

— Meghan O'Rourke

I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden…

— Larry Gelbart

Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism…

— Helmut Gernsheim

Many young web designers view their craft the way I used to view pop culture. It's cool or it's crap. They mistake…

— Jeffrey Zeldman

There are parts of a ship which taken by themselves would sink. The engine would sink. The propeller would sink. But when…

— Ralph Washington Sockman

It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft, that a man becomes something.

— Paul Goodman

I hope to never stop growing. I hope that with every role I play, I keep adding layers to my craft. I…

— Eva Mendes

Your life is a work of art, a craft to be carefully mastered. For patience has replaced time, and you are your…

— Rick Jarow

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

— Tom Peters

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity…

— Sharon Olds

I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it because you needed it.

— Amy Sedaris

The craft work becomes a mediator between me and my secrets, between me and the listener.

— Melissa Febos

We all can be masters at our craft, but you have to make sacrifices that come along with making that decision.

— Kobe Bryant

For me, my craft is sailing on,Through mists to-day, clear seas anon.Whate'er the final harbor be'T is good to sail upon the…

— John Kendrick Bangs

[Harriet Tubman] lived such a full, complex, and irrefutably-dynamic life that all the craft in the world would be insufficient in honoring…

— Aisha Hinds

There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right…

— Isaac Babel

Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement.

— Raymond Carver

Originality is what distinguishes art from craft. It is the yardstick of artistic greatness.

— H. W. Janson

Monarch of earth, I shall confess my secret craft: I've always fought to purify wild flame to light, and kindle whatever light…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

We have a desperate need for producers in the [commercial Broadway] theatre, and it is very hard for them to get money…

— Arthur Laurents